Microsoft COM Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Microsoft COM
Chris Wolf
Last position:
Senior Strategy Advisor, Transformation Lead – program realignment with target picture, governance, and priority steering at Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe | S-Communication Services
In-house consulting provider and driver of transformation within the group, multi-stakeholder environment and C-level.
Realignment and stabilization of a cross-functional transformation and scaling program within the group. Sharpening the target picture, priorities, and set of measures, as well as building reliable governance, planning, and steering structures. Structuring roles, responsibilities, and strategic initiatives while including AI and IT automation ideas.
Designed program realignment and project portfolio management
Developed strategy model and target picture for IT projects
Structured portfolio, roadmap, and priorities
Established governance and regular meetings
Worked out operating model for flagship projects
Assessed AI and automation ideas
Clarified roles and responsibilities
Implemented change measures
Developed, moderated, and evaluated workshops
Transformed 17 initiatives into a steering model
Increased transparency and decision-making ability
Strengthened commitment in steering
Sharpened the operating model structurally
Integrated three top-5 institutes
Involved over 80% of stakeholders
Governance
Portfolio steering (PPM)
Change management
Artificial intelligence
Workflow automation
AI use case assessment
Confluence
Jira
Stakeholder management
Onur Kayir
Last position:
Project Manager & Outsourcing Manager at SENEC GmbH (EnBW Group)
- Building a scalable nearshore IT developer hub (Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland) as an independent company using a BOT model (Build – Operate – Transfer)
- Identifying, selecting, and managing full-service agencies; introducing governance and control mechanisms including KPIs, SLAs, and regular service reviews
- Creating and reviewing data processing agreements and framework contracts in coordination with Legal & Compliance; integrating regulatory requirements (including KRITIS) into process design
- Advising on cloud-vs.-on-premise strategies, data storage, and authorization concepts; supporting procurement with tendering and vendor evaluations
- Change management and process harmonization between internal teams and nearshore partners; reporting to management board, CFO, and CIO
Result: Scalable IT developer hub with an audit-proof governance model, lower operating costs, and faster product development.
Thomas Müller
Last position:
Requirements Engineer (SPC) - ONE.CRM VW Salesforce Solution at CARIAD SE / Diconium Strategy GmbH
- Rework demand, development and operational organizational set up for the Solution Train
- Rework requirement refinement process flow from strategic theme to user story
- Introduction of visualization tools (Canvas) of work dependencies over different requirement levels and Solution Train leadership coaching
Karlheinz Götz
Last position:
Consultant / Test Analyst / Supporter at Insurance office, Spaichingen
Project: Process optimization & IT support in an insurance broker office.
Project activities:
- Analysis of processes and definition of requirements
- Consulting for the implementation of a cloud solution (soho)
- Installation and verification of new infrastructure HW
- Cloud installation & configuration
- Definition and creation of use cases
- Performing user acceptance tests (UAT)
- User training / training
- IT support (cloud, PC, server, printer, network)
Label: Insurance, infrastructure, configuration, training, support
Priyanka Sarang
Last position:
Business Consultant (Software Engineering) at Boehringer Ingelheim
- Developed cloud-native enterprise applications on SAP Business Technology Platform using Node.js, SAP UI5, and RESTful APIs, delivering solutions across training management, procurement, employee information, and logistics domains
- Served as the primary developer for the maintenance, enhancement, and production support of three enterprise applications, delivering new features, resolving production issues, and coordinating releases with business stakeholders
- Experienced in leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as Microsoft Copilot to accelerate feature development, generate code, prototype solutions, and support application migration and modernization
- Designed backend services, domain models, and SAP Fiori/UI5 interfaces, implementing business workflows, role-based access control, validations, scheduling, reporting, and data import/export capabilities
- Designed and integrated enterprise services with SAP SuccessFactors, SailPoint, ERP systems, and external Learning Management APIs, including automated synchronization for 11,000+ user data
- Designed and implemented AMQP-based event-driven services processing up to 500 RFID parcel scan events per day for a logistics application
- Managed deployments and application operations using CI/CD pipelines, SAP Solution Manager, SAP BTP Cockpit, Kibana, and cloud monitoring tools, performing root-cause analysis and resolving production incidents
- Managed application dependencies by resolving npm package version conflicts and remediating critical and high-severity security vulnerabilities, ensuring production compliance and application stability
- Collaborated with architects, business users, SAP governance teams, and distributed Agile teams throughout technical design, code reviews, sprint planning, documentation, and software delivery
Michael Appel
Last position:
Senior Project Management at Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
- Project management of a simplification project to reduce effort for an IT transformation project
- Stakeholder management and preparation of decision papers for top management
- Scoping and PI planning across multiple delivery streams
- Planning requirements for the transformation project
- Creating partner and customer journeys for structured end-to-end capture of requirements
- Designing suitable tracking methods for project progress
- Coordination with IT service providers and transformation project committees
David Schindler
Last position:
Senior Marketing and Communications Consultant at NetCologne Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH
- Managed marketing, content and communications projects with six-figure budgets for a regional telecommunications and IT service provider
- Developed and managed content and video formats from concept to production, including shoot planning
- Led and coordinated social media managers, creative teams as well as external agencies and service providers
- Conceptualized, developed and optimized campaign landing pages throughout the entire lifecycle
- Managed collaboration between departments, management and external partners
- Ensured consistent brand communication as well as timely and high-quality delivery of all projects
Daniela Tebart
Last position:
HR Director / Head of HR (Interim) at CA Auto Bank S.p.A. (CA Group) – Financial Services / Automotive Banking
- Responsibility for the European HR agenda in Germany within a global organization
- Strategic partnership with regional leadership and Group HR at group level
- HR transformations in HRBP roles and sparring partner for the business
- Implementation and coordination of employee surveys for 3 countries with the support of an external provider.
- Support for organizational transformation and leadership stability (post-merger integration)
- Ensuring HR governance, labor law compliance, and cultural consistency
- Building trust with executive leadership and employee representatives
- Critical interface between global HR strategy and local implementation
- Introduction of a unified compensation system
- Recruiting a new HRD and onboarding them
- 5 employees
Anish Gupta
Last position:
GTM Intelligence Engine · Open Source
- PROBLEM: GTM effort is guesswork across fragmented identities and channels, with no closed feedback loop.
- BUILT: Cost-pyramid engine (L0–L3): identity resolution across ~25k entities, explainable intent scoring, and a closed decision loop (propose → execute → evaluate → learn) with calibration.
- IMPACT: Shipped v1.3.1 with a live demo; 99% of operations resolve at the free L0 tier (CI-enforced); $0 to run without any API key.
Robert Francia
Last position:
Interim Project Manager at IT services company of a regional energy supplier
- Delivery of various end-customer projects in server and network infrastructure on time, in quality, and within budget.
- Project 1: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall at an automotive supplier.
- Project 2: Migration of file services from dedicated servers at 5 branch locations into a central managed file service, including DHCP, directory, and print services, as well as decommissioning of the old domain controllers.
- Project 3: Renewal of the network infrastructure at the headquarters and branch locations of a logistics company and transition of the LAN, WLAN, and firewall environments into a managed network service.
- Project 4: Network renewal, replacement of the core and access switches at the headquarters of a medical technology company and transition into a managed network service.
- Project 5: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall for a city.
- Environment: ASA and Fortinet firewalls, Cisco network components, ITSM Heat/Ivanti, Confluence.
Thomas Kostrewa
Last position:
Agile Coach / Release Train Engineer (SAFe) – Product & Cross-functional Delivery Focus at Autonomous Driving / Connectivity (OEM, confidential)
- Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across organisational units in the Connectivity domain, aligning teams around integrated end-to-end, customer-testable value rather than isolated component delivery.
- Drive a shift from local component optimisation towards shared outcomes and a common delivery goal, increasing focus and enabling significantly faster integrated delivery.
- Coordinate across 15 cross-functional organisations in a highly complex OEM environment; bring Product, Engineering, Programme Management and specialist functions together to resolve dependencies and improve decision-making.
- Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and stakeholders on product responsibility, prioritisation, outcome orientation and aligned backlogs.
- Use Claude through an AWS Bedrock integration to analyse Jira and Confluence content, identify patterns, dependencies and quality gaps, and support structured product and delivery decisions.
- Establish AI-native requirements excellence with LLM-supported quality gates for epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps and task breakdowns; scale adoption through templates and prompt playbooks.
Alexander Zhirov
Last position:
Senior Data Solutions Engineer at VMware Inc.
- Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
- Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
- Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
- Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.
Mark Karasira
Last position:
Whitelabel AI projects at Self-employed
- Use of AI tools (ChatGPT Pro, Google Gemini Plus, Claude Pro, Make.com Pro, n8n, Sora, Google Veo3, Octoparse Professional)
- Creation of high-quality sales pipelines in CRM Pipedrive
- Automated lead generation and qualification via web scraping and AI analysis
- Development of social selling and sales materials
- 56% lead-to-deal conversion; approx. €140k in own closings
Ciro Manno
Last position:
Enterprise Consultant at Freelancing
Independent consulting engagements supporting technology organizations on governance, system integration, and delivery structure.
- Supported technology organizations in strengthening governance, system integration planning, and delivery structure.
- Reviewed BSS/OSS modernization and data migration programs, validating effort estimates and identifying delivery risks.
- Introduced simple reporting and tracking tools to improve coordination across distributed teams.
- Advised on integration planning and governance, helping teams improve delivery structure and stakeholder alignment.
Mario Pucko
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030 at ALDB GmbH
- Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
- Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
- Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
- Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
- Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
- Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
- Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
- Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
- Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control
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Statistics of experts using Microsoft COM
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
5.5 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Telecommunication
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
87%
Master's degree or higher
51%
Doctorate
10%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using Microsoft COM
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What COM is
Microsoft COM, the Component Object Model, is a Windows technology for building reusable software components that communicate through defined interfaces. It still appears in desktop software, automation, and legacy enterprise systems. Teams also search for COM through names like Component Object Model, ActiveX, and OLE/COM.
Where it fits
- Office automation and add-ins
- Desktop software with shared components
- Windows services and legacy business systems
- Interop between .NET, native code, and older libraries
COM is often the glue between older Windows software and newer code. Strong specialists know when to keep a COM boundary, when to wrap it, and when to replace it safely.
What experts deliver
A good COM specialist can trace interface contracts, registration issues, threading problems, and lifetime bugs. They also work with COM objects, ActiveX controls, and automation through IDispatch where needed.
Ecosystem and skills
Strong professionals usually bring deep Windows knowledge, C++ or C#, and practical debugging skills. Useful adjacent areas include Win32, .NET interop, registry-based deployment, and packaging for desktop environments.
When companies bring help
Companies often need freelance COM expertise when a legacy product must stay stable while features move forward. This is common in Germany for internal business software, industrial tools, and Office-linked workflows where in-house teams need extra hands for a focused period.
- A COM component fails after a Windows update
- An older ActiveX control must still work
- A .NET service must call a native COM library
- A migration needs a safe bridge, not a rewrite
What strong specialists look like
Strong COM professionals read interface definitions carefully, understand reference counting, and respect apartment threading rules. They write clear diagnostics, test on the target Windows versions, and keep changes small when the system is fragile. In Germany, they often work well with both local stakeholders and remote teams.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Microsoft COM, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
A strong Microsoft COM specialist works on Windows components that need to talk through stable interfaces. It is used for desktop software, Office automation, ActiveX controls, and older enterprise systems that still depend on COM objects. Many teams also use it as an interop layer between native code and .NET.
COM is a low-level component model with explicit interfaces, registration, and reference counting. .NET interop can call COM, but it adds managed code on top and does not remove the underlying COM rules. Modern APIs are usually easier to maintain, yet COM still matters when a product or vendor library already depends on it.
Component Object Model is the full name, and many experts also know the technology through ActiveX or OLE/COM. Those terms matter because older Windows systems and Office add-ins often use them interchangeably in project briefs. A good freelancer should understand the differences and the overlap.
A strong ActiveX or COM specialist usually understands C++, C#, Win32, and .NET interop. Practical debugging in Visual Studio, Windows registry knowledge, and threading concepts such as apartment models are also important. For deployment work, packaging and installer know-how help a lot.
Microsoft COM work often needs someone who has seen real legacy systems, not just the theory. The more fragile the application, the more important hands-on experience with interface contracts, registration, and lifetime issues becomes. For a small bug fix, a focused specialist may be enough; for a migration, you want broader Windows experience.
COM work is often remote-friendly because most tasks need source code, logs, and a Windows test setup rather than on-site access. On-site time can still help when a project depends on local hardware, regulated environments, or sensitive internal systems. In Germany, many teams mix remote delivery with short on-site sessions when needed.
A strong Component Object Model freelancer explains problems clearly, reduces risk, and changes only what is needed. Look for evidence that they understand reference counting, interface versioning, COM registration, and how to test on the exact Windows environment. Good specialists also document what they changed so the next team can maintain it.
OLE/COM projects often break because of registration issues, threading mismatches, or lifetime bugs that are hard to reproduce. Problems also appear when older components meet newer operating systems or when a .NET layer calls a native library with the wrong assumptions. A capable freelancer should be able to isolate the fault quickly and keep the rest of the system stable.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft COM in their recent projects is 108 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 864 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft COM in their recent projects, 87% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 51% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft COM in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 5.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft COM in their recent projects are German (100%), English (96%), and French (24%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft COM in their recent projects are Information Technology (78%), Professional Services (49%), and Telecommunication (48%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Microsoft COM in their recent projects are Information Technology (84%), Product Development (72%), and Project Management (72%).
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