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Meet FRATCH Experts who have recently used Machine Learning
William N.
Last position:
Power BI Solutions Architect/Engineer & AI Consultant at AVERDUNG GmbH
- Redesign of the company’s BI infrastructure: replacement of a fragmented landscape of manually maintained Excel solutions and CSV imports with a centralized Power BI environment using a unified data model as the company-wide single source of truth
- Consolidation of previously isolated reporting logic in a central semantic model – elimination of redundant files, manual data transfers and inconsistent metrics across departments
- Forecasting & Planning: Design and implementation of company-wide liquidity planning in Power BI – from business logic to a fully automated, data-source-driven planning model replacing the previous manual Excel process; enabling rolling forecasts and continuously up-to-date cash flow transparency for management
- Optimization of existing Power BI dashboards in terms of performance, structure and analytical value using an AI-native approach
- Analysis and improvement of the data model, including data quality analyses, data cleansing and consistent modeling using Star Schema, DAX and Power Query
- Incident & Anomaly Analysis: Identification, investigation and explanation of data anomalies, including root-cause analysis and specific recommendations for action
- AI Solution Architecture: Connecting Business Central and Power BI to LangDock via MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI-supported data usage
- Development of a historical data layer as a basis for trend and time-series analyses
- AI-supported automation: Design and development of AI skills, agents, loops and processes for the automated analysis and interpretation of reports
- Automated reporting workflow: Setup of scheduled, automated email delivery of AI-generated analyses and recommendations to stakeholders
- Gathering and documentation of business requirements and coordination with business departments and IT as part of requirements engineering / product owner activities
- Breaking down overall requirements into clearly defined work packages and tasks
- Definition, prioritization and management of milestones throughout the entire project lifecycle
Tools: POWER BI, M365, Copilot Studio, MIRO, Microsoft Business Central, Microsoft Fabric, Claude AI, ChatGPT, LangDock, MS VS Code
Alwin G.
Last position:
IT Interim Manager & AI Strategist
- Founder of CheironX: AI-supported GRC management (ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz, TISAX, DORA)
- Strategic focus on Agentic AI and GenAI for modern IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Management
- IT interim management and strategic consulting
Michael F.
Last position:
Platform Architect (Project lead) at Würth IT
I designed and built a self-service AWS platform for Data Science teams with little or no infrastructure-as-code experience. A team writes about 10 lines of Python and gets a deployable stack with full SDLC release cycle that already follows the governance rules. Networking, encryption, IAM and tagging are decided by the platform, not by each team.
New teams or AWS accounts are onboarded with one pull request. Waste prevention and cost control is built into the defaults: Data scientists don't need infrastructure skills.
- Construct library (AWS CDK, Python). Built a versioned catalog of about 20 hardened constructs for being used in data-science projects with ML context
- Governance as code
- Multi-account, multi-tenant
- Golden-path scaffolding
- CI/CD and supply chain. Built reusable GitHub Actions workflows
- Release engineering
- QA with e2e, contract testing and unit test coverage with each release candidate
Sabine L.
Last position:
Communications Consultant for Crisis Communications/Issue Management at AQIM – Association for Quality in Interim Management
Planning, delivery & facilitation of crisis communications and reputation management
AQIM is a non-profit organization based in Austria. It is an association of interim managers from Germany and Austria. Founded in December 2024. Multi-part training with workshops and consulting on preventive crisis communications, in collaboration with the founding members and communications leads. To assess crisis potential for the market entry strategy and ahead of a digital campaign.
Project highlights:
Consulting and training for:
- Assessing crisis potential as a new market participant and for its internet-based communications activities
- Planning and developing crisis communications with targeted measures
- Developing a crisis plan to minimize reputational risks in the event of a crisis
- Delivering training and information sessions
Results:
- The one-off consulting event initially planned to prepare for an information campaign became a multi-part workshop on preventive crisis communications. It gave the organization the skills and confidence to handle an acute challenge, and also helped the participating interim managers build skills they could use in their day-to-day client assignments
- The workshop enabled those responsible to launch the information campaign, which was being prepared at the time and planned to run for six months, on social media as scheduled at the end of January 2026
- Carefully prepared scheduling and clear guidelines for responding to critical voices, including terminology, tone of voice, and compliance rules, ensured a smooth launch and delivery of a 3-month information campaign
Dany-Armand D.
Last position:
Senior Data Scientist at ibg NDT GmbH
- Investigate the relationship between Eddy Current Testing (ECT) signals and microstructural properties
- Detect latent patterns in ECT data that reflect intrinsic material characteristics
- Develop and validate predictive models for microstructural classification and quantification, using hardness and case depth as benchmarks
- Apply Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling for advanced data analysis
Fadi S.
Last position:
Data Scientist at E-Commerce
- Designed and developed a production-ready data platform based on Microsoft Fabric for an e-commerce company
- Built a scalable Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) with Lakehouse and Delta Lake as the foundation for analytics and AI applications
- Developed a metadata-driven ETL platform with PySpark and a generic Incremental Loading Framework (SQL Server → Bronze → Silver → Gold)
- Developed reusable components for Microsoft Fabric Notebooks to standardize data integration, transformation, and validation
- Implemented automated data pipelines including monitoring, logging, error handling, and Delta MERGE strategies for stable production operations
- Built a business layer architecture for reporting, data warehousing, and reusable data products
- Integrated heterogeneous data sources via SQL Server, REST APIs, Amazon SP API, and Google Analytics 4
- Worked closely with business departments to analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable data architectures
Technologies: Microsoft Fabric, PySpark, Python, SQL Server, Delta Lake, Lakehouse, OneLake, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, REST APIs, Amazon SP-API, Google Analytics 4
Michael S.
Last position:
Data Analyst, Data Scientist at CompuGroup Medical Deutschland AG, docmetric GmbH
Development of AI and traditional models to analyze medical and patient data, including medication analyses, diagnosis analyses, forecasts, procedure analyses, dosage analyses, comorbidity analyses, prescription analyses, patient potential analyses, referral profile analyses, and prescription analyses. Analyses in the field of Real World Evidence.
Healthcare IT, pharmaceutical industry
Tasks, responsibilities:
- Gathering customer requirements
- Planning the subproject
- Designing and defining KPIs
- Designing and developing models and visualizations of results using customer dashboards
- Developing and implementing data warehouse adaptations
- Deriving recommendations for action
Methods, technologies:
- Simulation
- Artificial intelligence
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Microsoft Power BI
- Amazon Web Services
- Elasticsearch
- PostgreSQL
- Databricks
- Multivariate statistics
Gabin Maxime N.
Last position:
Multi-Agent R&D Pipeline (3 Custom Agents) at Independent Project
Claude Code subagents, MCP, Pydantic V2, pytest, bandit
Designed and shipped 3 specialized agents that hand work down a line: a research agent writes a cited implementation spec, a coding agent builds the modular code and its tests, a review agent ranks findings by severity and applies the fixes. Each handoff is a structured document, so no stage depends on another agent's context window.
Connected the research agent to an academic-research MCP server (Semantic Scholar, ArXiv, Hugging Face Hub, citation snowballing) so every reference traces to a tool result rather than the model. Gated commits behind ruff, mypy, pytest and bandit, required human sign-off before installs and commits, and persisted session state on disk so long runs survive a context reset.
Hachem S.
Last position:
Machine Learning & BI Lecturer at EU Business School
- Taught ML, BI, and Big Data to Master's students.
Tech: Python, Power BI, SQL, ML, SnowflakeDB, databricks, MS Fabric, MongoDB, LLM
Peter S.
Last position:
Senior ML Engineer & AI Researcher at Anonymous Client
Project: Defect Generation on Test-Bench Images of Metal Surfaces Environment: Automated Visual Inspection (AVI), Metallurgy & Manufacturing
- Objective & Implementation: Designed, architected, and trained Generative Adversarial Networks (Pix2PixHD / SPADE) for image-to-image transformation. Targeted generation of synthetic material defects (e.g., cracks, inclusions, scale) on rough metal surfaces under real test-bench lighting conditions for privacy-compliant and efficient dataset expansion (data augmentation).
- Technical Design: Implemented robust Generative AI and computer vision pipelines in Python and PyTorch. Used semantic segmentation approaches for mask-controlled defect synthesis and subsequent evaluation with EfficientDet object detection models.
- Business Impact: Massive dataset upscaling (10x) without time-consuming and costly physical test-bench runs, while significantly improving the detection performance of automated inspection systems.
Technologies & Skills Used: Python | PyTorch | SPADE | Pix2PixHD | EfficientDet | Machine Learning | Semantic Segmentation | Computer Vision
Stefan O.
Last position:
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.
Vladimir F.
Last position:
IT Consultant at ITZBund
- ITSM consulting, analysis, and optimization of IT capacity using BMC TSCO / BMC Helix
- Developed the concept for “Governance Guidelines for Operational Capacity Management”
Kiriakos K.
Last position:
Tech Lead / Architect : OTTO API Platform at OTTO
Maturing their API practices on both a business and technology level. My role covers strategy, architecture, developer advocacy as well as hands-on software engineering, enabling both technical teams and business leadership to adopt and act on API-centric principles effectively. Coincidentally, we also establish GitOps, DX and platform best practices with this project.
Highlights:
- Aligning executives with the initiative by clarifying strategy, replacing misconceptions and myths with facts, clarifying the value of existing assets and enabling informed decision-making
- Formulating a way forward for API Lifecycle Management at OTTO
- Driving platform progress and fostering developer engagement by hands-on engineering work towards strategic goals
API Lifecycle Management, Team Topologies, Organizational Evolution, Regulatory, Platform Advocate, Developer Platform, Communities of Practice, Terraform, Kotlin, Kafka, Kong, WSO2, Apigee, Gravitee, Backstage, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, API Design, AWS, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Redocly, reactive programming, CDC, Golang, Gin, GitOps, DX (developer experience), stakeholder management, roadmaps, workshops, discovery.
Jens H.
Last position:
Interim CTO (occasional assignments) at Fujitsu / FSAS
Stabilization of 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
Ajay C.
Last position:
Software Engineer & Cloud AI Developer at TANGILITY GmbH
Built Python-based AI microservices and integrations for an AEC/VR Unity-based SaaS app, focusing on LLM/VLM capabilities, retrieval-backed systems, RESTful APIs, containerized deployment, and an automation microservice for the CAD-to-Unity pipeline.
- Developed a custom Hybrid A* based algorithm in C# to simulate hospital scenarios, detect early-stage design conflicts using collision/spatial data, and generate structured reports.
- Solved and automated the time-consuming task of converting CAD files into usable Unity environments with a custom real-time pipeline. Used a ZeroMQ-based communication layer to distribute workloads across multiple processes and achieve real-time performance.
- Built a Dockerized FastAPI pipeline for CAD-to-Unity automation, combining vision-based object matching, image embeddings, and precomputed metadata to automatically map CAD objects to Unity behavior scripts, assign properties, and reduce repeated AI inference calls.
- Created documentation and examples to help technical users understand, configure, and extend the AI automation pipeline.
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Statistics of experts using Machine Learning
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
14 years

Position duration
2.8 years

Positions per freelancer
9

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development

Top industries
Information Technology, Education, Professional Services

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
98%
Master's degree or higher
77%
Doctorate
18%

Certifications per freelancer
2

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 5 Nov 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts using Machine Learning
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
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 5 Nov 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Machine Learning 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 (83%)
- Education (41%)
- Professional Services (36%)
- Automotive (36%)
- Manufacturing (36%)
- Banking and Finance (32%)
- Healthcare (30%)
- Retail (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What it does
Machine Learning enables software to learn patterns from data and use them to make predictions, classifications or decisions. Companies use it for demand forecasting, fraud detection, search, recommendations, language processing and image analysis. The work can support customer-facing products or internal operations.
Typical solutions
- Predictive models for demand, churn, risk and maintenance
- Recommendation and ranking systems for products or content
- Computer vision for inspection, recognition and document processing
- Natural language processing for search, extraction and support workflows
- Anomaly detection for transactions, devices and operational data
Ecosystem and tooling
Machine Learning projects often combine Python with libraries such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow and XGBoost. Strong data preparation may involve SQL, pandas, Spark or cloud data services. Production work also connects models to APIs, containers, experiment tracking, model registries and monitoring systems.
When companies need experts
Companies bring in freelance specialists when internal teams lack model-building capacity, domain knowledge or production experience. They may need help turning an unclear business question into a measurable prediction task, improving an existing model, or moving a prototype into a dependable service. Short engagements can also add an independent review before launch.
What strong specialists deliver
Good professionals link technical choices to business outcomes. They define useful targets, check data quality, prevent leakage, select suitable evaluation methods and explain trade-offs clearly. They also consider latency, cost, security, fairness, retraining and how people will act on model outputs after deployment.
Signs of production readiness
- Data pipelines are repeatable, documented and tested
- Model performance is measured against a meaningful baseline
- Training and serving environments produce consistent results
- Monitoring detects drift, failures and changing data quality
- Ownership, retraining and rollback processes are agreed
A reliable delivery includes more than a model file. It covers reproducible experiments, integration with existing systems, clear documentation and handover to the team that will operate the solution.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Machine Learning, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Machine Learning is used to find patterns in data and support predictions or automated decisions. Common applications include forecasting, recommendations, fraud detection, document processing, quality inspection and customer support workflows.
Machine Learning learns a model from examples, while traditional software usually follows rules written directly by specialists. It is useful when the rules are complex or change with the data, but it requires careful data preparation, evaluation and ongoing monitoring.
A strong Machine Learning specialist usually understands statistics, data engineering, software development and cloud deployment. Depending on the project, useful adjacent skills include SQL, Python, APIs, containerization, experiment tracking and model operations.
The right level depends on the task, data quality and production risk. A proof of concept may need focused modeling expertise, while a customer-facing system benefits from a professional who can handle data pipelines, deployment, monitoring and communication with business teams.
Machine Learning work is often suitable for remote collaboration because data, code and cloud environments can be shared securely. On-site work can help when specialists must access restricted systems, observe operational processes or work closely with teams handling sensitive data.
Before starting Machine Learning work, clarify the business decision, available data, expected output and constraints such as latency, privacy or integration. Access to sample data, subject-matter experts and a clear success measure helps a specialist assess feasibility quickly.
Look for evidence that the professional has taken models beyond notebooks into dependable products. Ask how they handle baselines, leakage, changing data, error analysis, explainability and monitoring, and whether they can describe trade-offs in terms your team can use.
Machine Learning projects commonly use Python with scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow or XGBoost. Teams may also use pandas, Spark, SQL, cloud services, containers and model-tracking tools, with the exact stack shaped by the data, model type and deployment environment.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Machine Learning in their recent projects is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 726 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used Machine Learning in their recent projects, 98% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 77% hold at least a Master's degree, and 18% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used Machine Learning in their recent projects have 14 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used Machine Learning in their recent projects are English (98%), German (97%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used Machine Learning in their recent projects are Information Technology (83%), Education (41%), and Professional Services (36%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Machine Learning in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Product Development (83%), and Research and Development (60%).
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