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Stefan Ojanen

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AI Product Leader

Berlin
Stefan Ojanen

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Founder at ProtocolEngine.io

Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.

  • Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
  • Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
  • Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
  • Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
  • Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
  • Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.

Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.

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Onur Kayir

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AI & Automation Consultant · Project Manager for AI Projects

Braunschweig
Onur Kayir

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Project Manager & Outsourcing Manager at SENEC GmbH (EnBW Group)

  • Setup of a scalable nearshore IT developer hub (Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland) as an independent company through a BOT model (Build – Operate – Transfer)
  • Identification, selection, and management of full-service agencies; introduction of control and governance mechanisms including KPIs, SLAs, and regular service reviews
  • Creation and review of data processing agreements and framework contracts in alignment with Legal & Compliance; integration of regulatory requirements (incl. KRITIS) into process design
  • Consulting on cloud vs. on-premise strategies, data storage, and authorization concepts; support for procurement in vendor selection and provider assessments
  • Change management and process harmonization between internal teams and nearshore partners; reporting to management, CFO, and CIO

Result: Scalable IT developer hub with an audit-proof governance model, reduced operating costs, and faster product development.

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Shamaila Mahmood

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Senior Software and Platform Architect

Heilbronn
Shamaila Mahmood

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Founder/Kubernetes and Cloud Architect at Kubekanvas

  • Developed a browser-based platform for Kubernetes no-code deployment and cluster management
  • Developed a CLI in TypeScript to deploy resources in the cluster without leaving the browser UI.
  • Implemented DevSecOps pipelines: image scanning, SBOM, policy enforcement, supply-chain security, and used Kyverno. Implemented IAM integration for the command-line utility tool.
  • Designed role and permission models for Keycloak, OAuth/OIDC, and social login flows.
  • Used LLMs to convert user intent into diagrams.
  • Worked on integration with multiple sovereign clouds like StackIT, Hetzner, CIVO, UpCloud, plus public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • The technology stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, OpenAI, Kubernetes multi-tenancy using vCluster, Karpenter, RBAC for CLI, Helm, React
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Sascha Bach

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Accessibility, Creativity and Innovation for Businesses

Berlin
Sascha Bach

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Freelance at GxPlex

  • Built a custom MediaWiki instance including installation, MySQL database, SSL, and automatic backups
  • Set up user roles (Admin, Mod, Verified, User) and a permissions system
  • FlaggedRevisions for editorial review workflow · comment and rating extensions
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Kristina Suchan

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Senior Scrum Master | Release Train Engineer | Agile Transformation Coach | SAFe | SAP

Munich
Kristina Suchan

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Agile Transformation Coach – SAP Program (Freelance) at Sherpa X Digital Transformation SAP at Siemens

  • Agile Transformation Coach within an SAP-driven End-to-End Lead-to-Cash program, supporting leadership and management teams in implementing and evolving the Sherpa Way of Working, strengthening Agile practices, role definitions and responsibility clarity (RACI), and delivery effectiveness
  • Member of the leadership core team for the Way of Working, shaping and evolving agile operating models, challenging existing practices, and driving pragmatic, system-level improvements
  • Conceptualized a Polarion-based Scrum Master dashboard as a single, role-based entry point for sprint status, dependencies, risks, and governance artefacts, reducing reporting overhead and improving transparency
  • Provided targeted 1:1 coaching to the Master Scrum Master and Scrum Masters, strengthening leadership capability, role effectiveness, and support for team-specific challenges, including the redesign of Scrum Master syncs and collaboration formats
  • Worked with teams and leadership on End-to-End Lead-to-Cash process analysis and documentation in SAP Signavio, supporting alignment, transparency, and a shared understanding of process expectations across teams
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Jens Henneberg

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Interim CTO / CDO & Enterprise Architect | AI Compliance & EU AI Act, Azure AI Foundry | Lawyer & Computer Scientist

Wathlingen
Jens Henneberg

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Interim CTO (occasional assignments) at Fujitsu / FSAS

Stabilizing an Azure/.NET landscape in live operation.

  • Architecture, DevOps, and operational readiness; technical decisions under time pressure
  • Azure DevOps, monitoring, ETL/ELT, cloud security, FinOps, and data-mesh-related topics

Technologies: Azure DevOps, .NET, CI/CD, monitoring, FinOps

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Dmitry Pankov

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Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst

Berlin
Dmitry Pankov

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Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst at Freelance

  • Marketing Strategy: Lead the end-to-end analysis and evaluation of cross-channel marketing campaigns across the entire Customer Journey. My focus is identifying optimization potential and deriving clear, actionable recommendations that drive measurable business impact.
  • Data Science & AI: Advanced predictive modeling (Churn, LTV), market basket analysis, clustering, and real-time AI-powered audience discovery utilizing RAG/LLMs.
  • Marketing Analytics & Measurement: End-to-end attribution analysis, Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), audience segmentation, conversion path analysis, and A/B testing across all major platforms.
  • Data Engineering & Reporting: Designing and managing robust, multi-platform data pipelines (BigQuery, GCP) for data consolidation, automated dashboard generation, and critical API integrations.
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Fadi Shoaa

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AI Engineer | Microsoft Fabric | Data Engineering | Enterprise AI | Document AI

Oberhausen
Fadi Shoaa

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Development of a production-ready Enterprise Document AI & Recommendation Platform at Freelancer

  • Development of a production-ready Enterprise AI solution for the automated processing of invoices and business documents
  • Integration of Azure AI Document Intelligence and LLM technologies into existing business processes
  • Development of robust REST APIs for automated document processing and system integration
  • Extraction, validation, and storage of structured invoice data in Azure SQL as a base for analytics and machine learning models
  • Development of an AI-based recommendation engine with machine learning and deep learning to generate personalized product recommendations based on historical purchase data
  • Implementation of logging, monitoring, error handling, and validation mechanisms for stable production use
  • Collaboration with business teams to define business rules and integrate the solution into existing enterprise processes

Technologies: Python, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL Database, REST APIs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, OCR, Pandas, JSON, Workflow Automation

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Michael Nelz

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Senior ML Engineer | AI Engineer | Problem Solver

Eichenau
Michael Nelz

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Senior AI Engineer | Forward Deployed Engineer at Tiefbau

  • Development of an AI-powered project organization tool for a civil engineering company that intelligently links project, task, tender, schedule, and document data through a knowledge graph.
  • Implementation of AI features for document analysis, information extraction, context-based assistance, and voice-based data capture based on Microsoft Azure AI, reducing administrative effort, making information available faster, and supporting project teams in decision-making.
  • Tech stack: Python, React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Claude Code, Codex, Graphify, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Entra ID, Docker, Git, CI/CD.
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Karen Manukyan

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Senior .NET Backend Engineer | Applied AI | Agentic Systems, RAG & Distributed Architecture

Munich
Karen Manukyan

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Personal AI Engineering Project — Croky AI at Crocky AI

Product:

  • Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
  • Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
  • Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
  • Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
  • Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.

Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems

  • Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
  • Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.
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Franz Bauer

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Program Lead • Portfolio Manager • Digitalization & Transformation

Munich
Franz Bauer

Last position:

Product Development (AI) at Own initiative

AI telephone assistant platform

Claude Code, Google AI Studio, Python, LLM / Voice-AI, PostgreSQL

  • Conception and hands-on development of an AI-supported telephone assistant platform (voice AI / LLM) – from idea and architecture to MVP/product.
  • Built agentic workflows and full automations with Claude Code and Google AI Studio.
  • Also delivered AI-supported work in client engagements: used Claude Code for governance documentation, requirement drafts, and automations.
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Karin Albiez

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Language Expert – Python Developer – AI Engineer

Leonberg
Karin Albiez

Last position:

AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German at Lilt

  • Task Engineering: Evaluating Coding Agents.
  • Asset Creation: Building realistic task environments using datasets and files in German. Crucially, these assets must remain in the target language to genuinely measure multilingual handling.
  • Prompting & Translation: finding failure points where AI does not work, in German.
  • Implementation & Verification: Supporting the development of robust solutions (reference implementations) and write highly reliable, deterministic verifier scripts (using rubric-based judging only when strictly necessary).
  • Calibration & Execution: Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty (Easy to Very Hard) using standard Terminal-Bench run configurations against various model tiers (Haiku, Opus).
  • Quality Assurance: Participation in a rigorous, 4-layer human quality control process (creation, human review, calibration review, and audit) alongside automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity.
  • Linguistic Review: Reviewing AI benchmark tasks across Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Czech and Turkish.
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Fred Hauschel

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Senior Java Architect and Developer | Domain Architect (DDD, Knowledge Systems)

Munich
Fred Hauschel

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Software Architect and Developer at Personal project

  • Recurring problem in my own AI-supported projects: requirements analysis, use cases, and architecture decisions can be created quickly with AI support, but they remain hard to trace and are scattered across markdown files – knowledge is lost as soon as it is no longer in the context window. arknet turns requirements engineering and architecture knowledge into structured, testable data instead of plain text: requirements, use cases, and architecture decisions as a consistently linked knowledge graph, traceable from the requirement to the architecture decision – queryable for humans and AI agents alike. Built technically on RDF/OWL and its own MCP server.

  • Result: MCP daemon running, Docker image automatically published on GHCR, nine hexagonal modules, eleven ADRs (including an open-core license model). Requirements engineering and ubiquitous language hexagon active. Publicly available as a Community Edition under Apache-2.0 since 07/2026 (github.com/kogn-io/arknet), together with the Claude Code plugin and the GHCR image; open-core model.

  • Label: Java, Maven, RDF, RDF4J, OWL, SPARQL, Model Context Protocol, Spring AI, Docker, GitHub, Git, Claude Code, Obsidian, DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, ArchUnit, JUnit, AssertJ, interface development, Software Architecture, Continuous Integration, Knowledge Management

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Thomas Polanski

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Project Manager, Product Owner & AI Consultant, AI Transformation - ERP · Shop · Marketing

Leipzig
Thomas Polanski

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Project Manager & Product Owner – M&A Integration at voxa c/o IC Music and Apparel GmbH

  • Project management of the legal and system-side integration of Taschenkaufhaus into the Voxa group: conversion of all contracts, accounts, and system access rights on the defined cutover date
  • Migration from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 to 2013: analysis of all existing interfaces, redefinition of processes, and coordinated go-live without interrupting operations
  • Integration of the complaints and returns process into MS Dynamics NAV 2013; major process simplification through standardization
  • Introduction of a new POS system (Shopify POS) in all stores: requirements analysis, configuration, rollout, and employee training
  • Use of n8n automation workflows for data reconciliation between marketplaces and ERP; manual processes significantly reduced

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Statistics of experts using Large Language Model

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

15 years

Position duration

2.9 years

Positions per freelancer

9

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Education

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Bachelor's degree or higher

96%

Master's degree or higher

70%

Doctorate

14%

Certifications per freelancer

3

Most common languages

English, German, French

Speak two or more languages

97%

Based on our profile pool as of 6 Sep 2026.

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Average rates of experts using Large Language Model

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 772 €

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Median rate 800 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 6 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

What it covers

Large Language Models, often called LLMs, power chat assistants, search tools, content workflows, and internal knowledge systems. They turn plain language into useful output, from drafted text to structured answers and code help. Strong work starts with the right model choice and a clear task.

Common use cases

  • Chat and support assistants
  • Retrieval-augmented search over company knowledge
  • Text summarization and extraction
  • Drafting, classification, and workflow automation
  • Tool use with APIs and internal systems

Ecosystem and tools

Work around LLMs usually includes OpenAI models, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, open-source models, vector databases, and orchestration tools. Experts also work with embeddings, prompt design, function calling, and evaluation sets. They know how to connect model output to real business data without breaking control or quality.

What strong specialists do

A strong specialist tests prompts, measures output quality, and reduces hallucinations with retrieval, guardrails, and clear system rules. They also handle latency, context limits, cost control, and fallback logic. Good work is practical: it fits the use case, the data, and the risk level.

When companies bring them in

Companies hire freelance expertise when they need a prototype that becomes a product, when an internal assistant must answer from private documents, or when an existing LLM feature is unreliable. They are also brought in to review architecture, improve prompting, or replace a brittle proof of concept with a maintainable setup.

Delivery and collaboration

LLM projects often move fast, but they still need structure. Freelancers usually define prompt patterns, evaluation criteria, model selection, safety checks, and integration steps. They can work remote or on-site, and they fit best when product, data, and engineering teams share clear examples and success criteria.

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Frequently asked questions

Key details about Large Language Model, drawn from the questions we get asked most.

A Large Language Model generates and transforms text based on the input it receives. Companies use it for assistants, summarization, classification, drafting, and question answering over business content. The best results come when the model is tied to a clear use case, not left to improvise.

No, but they are closely related. LLM is the general term for the model class, while GPT refers to OpenAI’s model family and ChatGPT is a product built on top of such models. When you hire a specialist, make sure they understand the underlying model behavior, not just one interface.

Start with the target outcome, the source data, and the risk level. A strong Large Language Model specialist will ask whether the system needs retrieval, tool use, fine-tuning, or only prompt design. They should also define how you will judge correctness, safety, and response quality.

A useful Large Language Model expert usually brings prompt design, API integration, and data handling skills. For production work, knowledge of retrieval, embeddings, vector search, evaluation, and basic backend integration matters a lot. Security and privacy awareness are important when company data is involved.

Fine-tuning only makes sense when prompt changes and retrieval do not solve the problem well enough. In many projects, a Large Language Model works better with strong instructions, good examples, and access to the right documents. Fine-tuning is more useful for stable patterns, consistent style, or specialized outputs.

Look for someone who can explain trade-offs, not just demo a chatbot. A strong LLM specialist shows how they test outputs, handle edge cases, reduce hallucinations, and keep the system maintainable. Clear evaluation methods matter more than flashy prompts.

Most Large Language Model work can be done remotely because the core tasks are design, integration, and testing. On-site collaboration helps when sensitive data, stakeholder workshops, or access to internal systems makes faster feedback important. The best setup depends on how tightly the work touches your internal knowledge and teams.

The main failure points are vague goals, poor data, and no plan for evaluation. A Large Language Model can look impressive in a demo and still fail in real use if the workflow is not defined well. Good specialists prevent that by setting boundaries, test cases, and fallback behavior early.

The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Large Language Model in their recent projects is 97 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 772 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers who have used Large Language Model in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 70% hold at least a Master's degree, and 14% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers who have used Large Language Model in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.

The most common languages among freelancers who have used Large Language Model in their recent projects are English (97%), German (97%), and French (18%).

The most common industries among freelancers who have used Large Language Model in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Professional Services (43%), and Education (40%).

The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Large Language Model in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Product Development (87%), and Research and Development (58%).

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