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Florian W.

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Software Engineer

Hamburg
Florian W.

Last position:

Software Engineer at micimo GmbH

  • Developing a professional scheduler for organizations with specific detailed requirements
  • Evaluating different existing software solutions
  • Creating a list of technical requirements
  • Implementing these requirements
  • Selected technologies: WebDAV, CalDAV, Rust, Baikal, OAuth, Keycloak
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Thomas L.

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Consultant for AI, Electronics Development and System Integration

Unterhaching
Thomas L.

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Consultant for AI-driven process automation at Lumiz

AI-driven automation of purchasing on a printing company's website, including selecting delivery times, order options, ordering, payment, and uploading print data from the Lumiz Cloud.

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Minh D.

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Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager

Bad Vilbel
Minh D.

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Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager at Finance and Insurance

  • Introducing 5 different process applications for various teams

  • Release planning: scope and time management

  • Resource/capacity planning

  • Conducting sprint planning / retrospectives

  • Increment planning (multiple sprints)

  • Preparing steering committee meetings / reporting to the executive board

  • Coordinating / aligning with external suppliers / deliveries

  • Multi-project resource planning

  • Aligning with the business unit and development team

  • Identifying best practices with IBM BAW

  • Cost control and planning for the project team and external service providers

  • Collecting KPIs using LogScale

  • Analyzing application errors with LogScale / queries

  • Defining user stories / aligning requirements with the business unit and development team

  • Testing and defect tracking

  • UI/UX design of the application

  • Preparing and facilitating brown-paper workshop

  • Test concept, test data, test organization, test execution

  • Recording team velocity / metrics

  • Executing tests

  • Scripts for automated testing

  • Organizing tests with the business unit and IT

  • Recording and prioritizing defects

  • Setting up and operating the application

  • Setting up application monitoring with LogScale dashboards

  • Checking health endpoints with PowerShell

  • Post mortem analysis

  • Setting up incident management

  • Setting up problem management

  • Analyzing errors using LogScale queries and dashboard

  • Pre-processing data for AI

  • Conducting evaluation with AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG

  • Installing runtime environments for LLMs (large language model)

  • Evaluating various LLMs

  • Installing RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and integrating with LLM

  • Extracting unstructured data with LLM and RAG

  • Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), WebSphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale (formerly Humio), Swagger, PowerShell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber

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Lazaros K.

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Machine Learning Engineer & Data Scientist with a focus on Retrieval Augmented Generation

Augsburg
Lazaros K.

Last position:

RAG Webinar: Deep Dive and Use Cases at SHI GmbH

  • Design, preparation and delivery of a webinar on 'RAG in Practice: How publishers create real value with AI'
  • Preparing technical and strategic content on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for a mixed audience from the publishing industry
  • Presenting specific use cases, technical backgrounds, common challenges and solution approaches when using RAG
  • Providing practical insights into data preparation, model selection and output optimization in the context of digital publishing portals
  • Conceptual and technical preparation of the webinar
  • Selecting and presenting practical use cases from the publishing environment
  • Developing technical backgrounds for implementing RAG systems
  • Presenting and explaining typical challenges and solution strategies
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
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Jad N.

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Engineering Director (Hands-on)

Berlin
Jad N.

Last position:

Software Developer at Side Project

  • Vram.run: Rust, TypeScript, HF Inference API with 19 providers, 220+ HW configs, and 30+ cloud GPUs. Search a model to see which API providers serve it, which GPUs can run it locally (and how fast), and what cloud rental would cost. Or search your hardware and see what fits. Also includes a Rust CLI.
  • Psychotron: JavaScript, Web Audio API, AudioWorklet, Canvas 2D. Front-end for flash fiction audiobook with Web Audio DSP chain featuring pitch-shifting, 12-voice chorus, flanger, 13-band EQ, and convolver reverb. Includes a 2D canvas effect morphing engine and synchronized teleprompter.
  • RecentWork: Swift, macOS, FSEvents, launchd. macOS daemon that watches project directories and maintains a flat folder of symlinks to recently modified files. Homebrew installable.
  • Mini-llm: Bash, macOS, launchd, Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, Open WebUI. Single command that turns a Mac Mini into a headless AI server.
  • ThatSlop: JavaScript. Chrome/Firefox extension for AI content detection on LinkedIn and Twitter.
  • Smux: Bash, tmux. Human-friendly tmux wrapper that is Homebrew installable.
  • Learn Rust Course: Rust. Course on Rust’s memory model for C++ programmers, written from experience of transitioning from C++ to Rust at Irreducible.
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Stephan M.

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Sabbatical, professional development

Weinheim
Stephan M.

Last position:

Sabbatical, professional development at Self-employed

  • Further training in Snowflake and Google Looker
  • Working with LLMs: local models (Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, Qwen, DeepSeek, Bitnet, Flux, Whisper), OpenAI API, frontends (ollama, openwebui, loacalai)
  • Inference methods: llama.cpp, vLLM, transformer
  • Quantization, benchmarking, prompting
  • LLM Agents (Tool/Function Calling, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP)
  • Topics: attention, reasoning, chain of thoughts, RAG, GraphRAG, mlflow
  • Cloud hosted: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
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Markus B.

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Technical Co-Founder

Munich
Markus B.

Last position:

Technical Co-Founder at Loka AI

  • Software development of a B2B SaaS for AI-based search in internal candidate pools of recruitment agencies
  • Design of a multi-tenant, hybrid architecture with dedicated GPU servers and secure cloud integration
  • AI-Engineering
  • LLMOps
  • Python
  • FastAPI
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Adithya B.

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Robotics and Edge AI Engineer

Munich
Adithya B.

Last position:

Edge AI Software Engineer at Neura Robotics GmbH

  • Deployed and optimized Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and diffusion policy models on NVIDIA Jetson Orin and Jetson Thor, meeting real-time inference latency targets for humanoid robot control loops.
  • Built TensorRT engine pipelines (PyTorch → ONNX → TensorRT) with INT8/FP8 post-training quantization, calibration dataset design, and quantization-aware validation, reducing inference memory footprint by over 3× on Jetson without accuracy regression.
  • Developed custom CUDA C++ plugins and CUDA Graphs for latency-deterministic, real-time policy execution – meeting hard runtime and memory constraints on embedded GPU targets.
  • Developed an inference engine for VLA models on top of llama.cpp bringing different VLA policies under single runtime, packaging each as a single self-contained GGUF that needs no Python or PyTorch.
  • Profiled and tuned GPU execution using NVIDIA Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute, identifying CUDA kernel bottlenecks, memory bandwidth saturation, and SM occupancy issues across Jetson Orin and Thor compute profiles for cross-layer performance optimization.

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Statistics of experts using llama.cpp

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

16 years

llama.cpp experts in Germany have 16 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

1.5 years

llama.cpp experts in Germany stay in a single position for 1.5 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

13

llama.cpp experts in Germany have completed 13 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

llama.cpp experts in Germany have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Quality Assurance.

Top industries

Information Technology, Automotive, Education

llama.cpp experts in Germany are most in demand in Information Technology, Automotive, and Education.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management

llama.cpp experts in Germany earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Project Management.

Bachelor's degree or higher

100%

100% of llama.cpp experts in Germany hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

50%

50% of llama.cpp experts in Germany hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

33%

33% of llama.cpp experts in Germany have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

2

llama.cpp experts in Germany hold 2 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

llama.cpp experts in Germany most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

100%

100% of llama.cpp experts in Germany speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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One of the llama.cpp experts in Germany charges less than €640 per day.
3 of the llama.cpp experts in Germany charge between €640 and €800 per day.
3 of the llama.cpp experts in Germany charge between €800 and €960 per day.
One of the llama.cpp experts in Germany charges €1120 or more per day.
<€640 €640-​800 €800-​960 €1120+

The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

Average rates of experts in Germany using llama.cpp

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

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Daily rate avg. 759 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 780 €

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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

llama.cpp experts industry focus

See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Information Technology (100%)
  • Automotive (44%)
  • Education (44%)
  • Manufacturing (44%)
  • Telecommunication (44%)
  • Transportation (33%)
  • Government and Administration (33%)
  • Aerospace and Defense (22%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

Local LLM Inference

llama.cpp is a lightweight C and C++ runtime for running large language models locally. It supports quantized models in the GGUF format and can use CPU, GPU or hybrid execution. Companies use it to build private assistants, embedded AI features and inference services without depending on a hosted API.

Models and Tooling

The ecosystem centers on GGUF model files, command-line tools and a growing set of bindings for application languages. Strong specialists work with model conversion, quantization, context settings, prompt templates and sampling controls. They may also connect llama.cpp to:

  • Python, Node.js or Rust applications
  • OpenAI-compatible HTTP endpoints
  • CUDA, Metal, Vulkan or CPU backends
  • Retrieval pipelines and local vector stores

Practical Use Cases

Projects often place llama.cpp close to sensitive data or constrained hardware. Typical deliverables include:

  • Offline document assistants for regulated workflows
  • Private chat and summarization services
  • Local coding or content tools
  • Edge inference for industrial and embedded systems
  • Evaluation services for quantized models

In Germany, this can support teams that need local processing, controlled data flows or collaboration with specialists who understand German-language model behavior.

When to Bring in Expertise

Freelance expertise helps when a proof of concept must become a stable service, when model quality changes after quantization, or when inference speed and memory use need careful tuning. Specialists can select suitable models, package reproducible builds and integrate observability, access control and fallback behavior. Remote work is often practical, while hardware testing may require access to a local environment in Germany.

Integration and Delivery

A reliable implementation covers more than starting a model process. Professionals configure streaming responses, batching, concurrency, cancellation and request limits, then connect the runtime to application services. They also handle model storage, startup behavior, hardware detection, container images and deployment automation. Adjacent skills in C++, Python, Linux, GPU tooling and API design are valuable.

What Strong Specialists Show

Look for hands-on evidence with llama.cpp rather than general claims about language models. Strong professionals explain why they selected a model and quantization level, show how they measured quality and latency, and identify hardware limits early. They test long contexts, malformed requests and concurrent sessions, document trade-offs and leave behind scripts, configuration and clear operating guidance.

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Frequently asked questions

Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about llama.cpp.

llama.cpp is used to run large language models locally on CPUs, GPUs and edge devices. Companies use it for private assistants, document processing, offline features, embedded applications and API services that keep inference close to their data.

llama.cpp gives a company direct control over model files, hardware and data processing. Hosted APIs can be easier to start with and may offer larger managed models, while local inference is useful when privacy, offline operation or predictable infrastructure matters.

A strong llama.cpp specialist often brings C++, Python, Linux, model conversion and quantization knowledge. Experience with GGUF, CUDA, Metal, Vulkan, REST APIs, containers, retrieval systems and performance testing can be important for production work.

The right level depends on the deliverable. A small local prototype may need model selection and API integration, while a production service calls for proven work with concurrency, memory limits, monitoring, deployment and failure handling. Ask for examples close to your hardware and workload.

llama.cpp can serve models that handle German, but language quality comes primarily from the selected model, its training and the prompting approach. A specialist should test German inputs, domain terms, output formats and quantized variants against representative company data.

Most llama.cpp work can be handled remotely through source control, containerized environments and documented hardware access. On-site collaboration can help when specialists must test dedicated GPUs, industrial devices or restricted networks that cannot be reproduced remotely.

Ask a llama.cpp specialist to explain model choice, GGUF quantization, context limits and backend configuration in practical terms. Review reproducible benchmarks, quality checks, resource measurements and documentation rather than relying only on a fluent demo.

With llama.cpp, common risks include selecting a model that exceeds available memory, assuming quantization has no quality cost and overlooking concurrent requests. Production plans should cover input limits, prompt injection, model licensing, observability, updates and graceful failure.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used llama.cpp in their recent projects is 95 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 759 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used llama.cpp in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% hold at least a Master's degree, and 33% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used llama.cpp in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.5 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used llama.cpp in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (22%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used llama.cpp in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Automotive (44%), and Education (44%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used llama.cpp in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (78%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used llama.cpp

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg

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