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Stefan O.

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AI Product Leader

Berlin
Stefan O.

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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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Mirza K.

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Agentic AI for a DeepResearch project

München
Mirza K.

Last position:

Agentic Automation and a RAG system

  • This project involved extraction of intelligence data to support report writing for a company that provides geopolitical, global, commercial intelligence. The data have been gathered from a number of resources (interview transcripts, online data, internal documents), and then a knowledge base has been build from it. This was the basis of a complex RAG system, that was evaluated against a golden dataset. Agents have been used to find out the contradicting intelligence, the statements supporting each other, and to store back the generated knowledge.

Used: Python, RAG, LangGraph, LangChain, deepeval, MCP

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Oleg A.

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Staff Software Engineer

Berlin
Oleg A.

Last position:

Staff Software Engineer at Kpler Germany GmbH

  • Delivered a new notifications platform implementation built from scratch to replace existing and upcoming services
  • Collaborating with other teams to integrate more domains

Tech stack:

  • Data: Scala 3, Apache Kafka, Python, Airflow, Astronomer
  • BE-FE: TypeScript, NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, Vue
  • Dev-ops: AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD
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Hamza S.

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AI Engineer | Computer Vision & Multimodal Perception Systems

Kronach
Hamza S.

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Research Associate - AI & Autonomous Systems at Hochschule Coburg

  • Developed and implemented AI-based perception and multimodal systems for real-world environments
  • Built, trained, and evaluated Machine Learning and Deep Learning models using Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and OpenCV
  • Worked with Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Large Language Models (LLMs), transformer-based architectures, and multimodal AI systems
  • Applied LoRA-based fine-tuning techniques and experimented with diffusion models for generative and multimodal AI applications
  • Developed multimodal perception pipelines using camera, LiDAR, and sensor data
  • Designed end-to-end workflows for data processing, model training, evaluation, benchmarking, and robustness analysis
  • Utilized HuggingFace Transformers and modern Deep Learning frameworks for AI experimentation and deployment workflows
  • Applied GPU-accelerated computing, CUDA-based processing, ONNX, and TensorRT optimization for efficient inference and large-scale model training
  • Collaborated with industry partners including Valeo and REHAU on applied AI and intelligent system projects
  • Developed scalable AI architectures and prototype software solutions for automation and perception tasks
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Laurin H.

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Software Architect (Freelance)

Bochum
Laurin H.

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Software Architect (Freelance) at Care4Sure

  • Delivered MVP-focused full-stack architecture for a health-sector client: Vite/React frontend, backend services on Google Cloud Run, and Supabase for database plus IAM/authentication.
  • Supported product requirements engineering and prioritized cost-aware workload placement, implementing browser-side/edge computation where feasible before moving logic to backend services.
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Hamza K.

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Academic Research Contributor in Health Sector (Volunteer)

Berlin
Hamza K.

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Academic Research Contributor in Health Sector (Volunteer) at n/a

  • Acted as technical consultant to optimize multi-layer ensemble models combining ResNet, CNN-BiGRU-Attention, and XGBoost.
  • Guided implementation of a Logistic Regression meta-learner to solve class imbalance problems, achieving 92.86% accuracy and 0.9644 AUC on PTB-XL and Chapman-Shaoxing datasets.
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Sukumar R.

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Machine Learning / AI Architect

Munich
Sukumar R.

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AI Consultant

  • Architect end-to-end AI/ML solutions, with a strong focus on advanced LLM applications, autonomous agentic AI workflows using MCP toolset, vLM embedding computations, and robust agentic RAG pipelines to drive real-world business impact for clients across diverse sectors.
  • Designed intelligent agentic AI workflows to automate knowledge retrieval and reasoning for B2B clients, accelerating business impact.
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Tobias V.

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Managing Partner

Wendelstein
Tobias V.

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Managing Partner at Unwritten GmbH

  • Pioneering work in personalized AI: developing a framework for “Interactive Content” (RAG) for novels, lectures, expert debriefing
  • Successful launch of Einbug, the Pantopia chatbot, with media coverage (SZ interview)
  • Creating compelling AI personalities: AI blog ([link] 100% personalized learning environments, Perry Rhodan, among others.
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Michael M.

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Freelance Senior Consultant & Cloud Architect

Gauting
Michael M.

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Freelance Senior Consultant & Cloud Architect at Rheinmetall AG

  • Specialized in designing and implementing robust, secure cloud solutions for critical client infrastructure.
  • Expertise in Microsoft Intune environment with a strong focus on system hardening and comprehensive policy management.
  • Architected NIST and ISO/IEC 27000 compliant Mobile Device Management (MDM) infrastructure tailored for an international government defense aerospace project.
  • Performed an architectural role for an offline Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) environment, ensuring NIST compliance while handling complex manufacturing infrastructure.
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Muntaha S.

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AI Engineer (Freelance)

Erlangen
Muntaha S.

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AI Engineer (Freelance) at Upwork

  • Delivered 40+ AI projects and 23 strategic consultations for international clients (US, Europe, Middle East), achieving a 98% job success rate and building long-term partnerships.
  • Developed and deployed production-grade AI solutions in computer vision, NLP, deep learning, and generative AI (LLMs, RAG pipelines, Stable Diffusion, OCR, chatbots), enabling automation and improving client efficiency by up to 70%.
  • Designed and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs), including prompt engineering and integration with enterprise knowledge bases, leading to smarter decision-making and reduced manual effort.
  • Built real-time computer vision applications (detection, segmentation, OCR) and integrated them into business systems, significantly enhancing accuracy and scalability.
  • Consulted startups and enterprises on AI strategy, architecture, and deployment (cloud & on-premise), accelerating product development and reducing time-to-market.
  • Managed complete AI project lifecycles (requirements gathering, solution design, deployment, support) in agile, international, and cross-functional environments, ensuring high-quality delivery.
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Pawan S.

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Academic Project

Nuremberg
Pawan S.

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CAPTCHA Recognition using CRNN

  • Built a CRNN model with VGG16 and BiLSTM backbone for text-based CAPTCHA recognition
  • Achieved 9.37% character error rate and 68.36% sequence accuracy on validation data
  • Expanded data augmentation pipeline with distortions, noise injection, and clutter to improve robustness
  • Conducted detailed error analysis on confusable characters (O, Q, D) and proposed error-specific augmentation
  • Tech Stack: Python, TensorFlow/Keras, OpenCV, NumPy, Matplotlib
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Martin R.

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Senior LLM Research Scientist

München
Martin R.

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Senior LLM Research Scientist at BYO Inc.

  • Research and develop models for chatbots, NLP and LLMs (e.g. Llama, Qwen, OpenAI)
  • Enhance chatbots with RAG, in-context learning
  • Supervised fine-tuning (PEFT, LoRA), Huggingface or Unsloth
  • Advanced training methods: Test-time training, (transductive) active learning, reinforcement learning
  • High-throughput serving with vLLM
  • Apply embedding models (e.g. SentenceTransformers), similarity/vector search or vector DB or ranking (e.g. LlamaIndex, Faiss, LangChain)
  • Generate and filter synthetic data, clustering
  • Detect hallucinations
  • Evaluate chatbot models (Rouge, BLEU, F1-Score, Recall, Precision)
  • Visualization of experiments (matplotlib)
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Fouad O.

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Ai Executive | Industrial AI Expert | Europe, Us & Gcc

Heidelberg
Fouad O.

Last position:

CTO at Predapp GmbH

Predapp is a Sovereign AI and Infrastructure company building AI systems that organisations can own, control, and deploy on their terms, with full data sovereignty. As CTO and investor since 2015, leading the development of the Sovereign AI Platform alongside an advisory practice spanning AI strategy for enterprises, fractional CTO engagements, and technical due diligence for VCs, PE, and family offices.

  • Architected the Sovereign AI Platform from zero owning technical vision, infrastructure design, and engineering roadmap; currently deployed at a European hospital, an automotive client in Germany, and two US startups, with active commercial discussions with two leading European hosting providers
  • Dubai Health Authority (DHA / Nabidh): Designed and trained AI symptom checker and triage system for national 'Doctor for Every Citizen' initiative under HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  • Emirates Airlines: Designed and deployed AI agent for ground personnel accelerating training, improving issue handling, and reducing cost of liquid workforce
  • Developed explainable AI triage system piloted at University Hospital Heidelberg and Famagusta Hospital (Cyprus); reduced patient wait times by up to 15% (validation ongoing)
  • Built production scheduling engine for US industrial AI startup: RL + Monte Carlo tree search, reducing planning from hours to seconds
  • Designed and led the development of semantic search engines using RAG + Knowledge Graphs; developed Agentic Text-to-SQL solution for citizen data scientists
  • AI strategy advisory and readiness assessments for enterprise clients, including architecture reviews, maturity assessments, and AI roadmap development
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Ariel L.

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Engineering Manager · AI Platform Architect · Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Ingolstadt
Ariel L.

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Sr. Principal Engineer at Slalom

  • Held direct line management responsibility for a team of 4 Platform Engineers — owning hiring, performance reviews, and career development — while establishing a shared engineering standards framework and coaching culture that accelerated delivery across client engagements.
  • Led a team of engineers to architect a cloud-native voice AI system for a major inspection client, enabling 2,500 field inspectors to document work fully hands-free via real-time transcription and AI agents — eliminating manual data entry across 440,000 inspections per month and reducing per-user cost from $9 to $1. Stack: AWS (DynamoDB, S3, Transcribe, CloudFront, API Gateway, Bedrock), ElevenLabs, Claude.
  • Led a team of engineers to automate multi-region Kubernetes cluster management for a global SaaS leader, reducing provisioning time from 3 weeks to under a day and eliminating 90% of configuration errors. Stack: EKS, Terragrunt, Python, Bash, ArgoCD.
  • Accelerator - Cloud-Agnostic AI Platform: Architected and delivered a cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes-native platform as an accelerator, enabling multi-tenant, enterprise-scale management of self-hosted LLMs with concurrent deployment of multiple base models and dynamic LoRA adapter serving. Designed production infrastructure using open-source tooling (ArgoCD, Karpenter, vLLM, SGLang) with automated model lifecycle management, API security (Keycloak + LiteLLM), and cost-optimized GPU provisioning.

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Statistics of experts using LoRA

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

13 years

LoRA experts in Germany have 13 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

1.8 years

LoRA experts in Germany stay in a single position for 1.8 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

10

LoRA experts in Germany have completed 10 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development

LoRA experts in Germany have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Research and Development.

Top industries

Information Technology, Automotive, Education

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

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Research and Development

LoRA experts in Germany earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Research and Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

100%

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

Master's degree or higher

86%

86% of LoRA experts in Germany hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

24%

24% of LoRA experts in Germany have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

4

LoRA experts in Germany hold 4 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

English, German, French

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

Speak two or more languages

100%

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

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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10% of LoRA experts in Germany charge less than €320 per day.
17% of LoRA experts in Germany charge between €320 and €480 per day.
20% of LoRA experts in Germany charge between €480 and €640 per day.
13% of LoRA experts in Germany charge between €640 and €800 per day.
20% of LoRA experts in Germany charge between €800 and €960 per day.
7% of LoRA experts in Germany charge between €960 and €1120 per day.
13% of LoRA experts in Germany charge €1120 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.

Average rates of experts in Germany using LoRA

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

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Daily rate avg. 694 €

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 684 €

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

LoRA 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 (94%)
  • Automotive (52%)
  • Education (52%)
  • Banking and Finance (52%)
  • Healthcare (39%)
  • Government and Administration (32%)
  • Manufacturing (29%)
  • Energy (26%)

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

About the technology

What LoRA does

LoRA, short for Low-Rank Adaptation, adapts a pretrained machine learning model without updating all of its parameters. It adds small trainable matrices to selected layers, reducing training demands while preserving the base model. Companies use it to tailor language, vision and multimodal models to focused domains, tasks and writing styles.

Typical applications

LoRA is useful when a company needs a specialized model but wants to keep the original foundation model intact.

  • Adapt language models for support, legal, finance or technical content
  • Tune image models for products, styles or brand guidelines
  • Create task-specific classifiers, extraction systems and assistants
  • Maintain separate adapters for customers, regions or use cases
  • Combine fine-tuning with retrieval and evaluation workflows

Ecosystem and tooling

Strong LoRA work connects model training with the surrounding machine learning stack. Specialists commonly use PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT and Accelerate, alongside quantization methods such as QLoRA. They also work with tokenizers, experiment tracking, GPU environments, model registries and inference services. In Germany, projects may involve remote collaboration across multilingual product and research teams.

When companies need expertise

Freelance support is valuable when internal teams have a clear adaptation goal but lack capacity for dataset preparation, training design or production rollout.

  • A base model performs poorly on domain-specific language
  • Full fine-tuning is too costly or difficult to maintain
  • Several adapters must serve different products or customers
  • Training results are inconsistent across datasets or runs
  • A prototype needs a reliable path to monitored inference

Skills that matter

A capable professional understands the trade-offs between adapter rank, target layers, learning rate, batch design and training duration. They can clean and structure datasets, prevent leakage, select meaningful evaluation sets and compare an adapter with the base model. Production work also requires knowledge of quantized inference, GPU memory, versioning, access controls and rollback plans.

Choosing a specialist

Look for evidence of complete adaptation work rather than familiarity with a training library alone. A strong specialist explains why LoRA or QLoRA fits the model, measures quality against a clear baseline and documents data provenance, configuration and limitations. They should also show how adapters are stored, loaded, tested and monitored after deployment. For on-site work in Germany, clarify language, security and collaboration expectations early; remote delivery can work well when the data and compute environment are accessible.

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Frequently asked questions

Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about LoRA.

LoRA is used to adapt a pretrained model to a narrower task, domain or style with a relatively small set of trainable parameters. Common projects include domain-specific assistants, structured extraction, image-style adaptation and customer-specific model behavior.

Low-Rank Adaptation changes selected parts of a model through lightweight adapter matrices, while full fine-tuning updates the model’s complete parameter set. LoRA usually makes experimentation, storage and switching between task-specific versions easier, but it may be less suitable when the desired behavior requires broad changes throughout the model.

LoRA adds low-rank adapters to a pretrained model, whereas QLoRA combines that approach with quantization of the base model during training. QLoRA can reduce memory requirements, but it adds quantization choices and quality checks that a specialist must manage carefully.

LoRA work benefits from expertise in PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT, tokenization, dataset engineering and evaluation. Production assignments may also require quantized inference, GPU orchestration, experiment tracking, model serving and monitoring.

A LoRA assignment needs enough practical experience to connect data quality, model choice, adapter configuration and evaluation. The right level depends on whether the work is a controlled experiment, a production integration or a multi-adapter system with strict security and maintenance requirements.

LoRA projects can often be delivered remotely when specialists have secure access to datasets, repositories and GPU infrastructure. On-site collaboration in Germany can help with sensitive data, research alignment or stakeholder workshops, while language and information-security requirements should be agreed in advance.

A strong LoRA professional defines a baseline, uses representative evaluation data and reports both improvements and failure cases. Ask for reproducible training settings, dataset documentation, validation against the original model and a clear plan for adapter versioning and deployment.

LoRA is appropriate when the model must learn durable behavior, terminology, formatting or style from training examples. Retrieval-augmented generation is often better when answers depend on changing documents or traceable source material, and many systems use both approaches together.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used LoRA in their recent projects is 87 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 694 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used LoRA in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 86% hold at least a Master's degree, and 24% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used LoRA in their recent projects have 13 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used LoRA in their recent projects are English (100%), German (97%), and French (13%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used LoRA in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Automotive (52%), and Education (52%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used LoRA in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (94%), and Research and Development (84%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used LoRA

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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