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Rüdiger Schulz

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Full-Stack Software Engineer / Consultant for Digitalization

Berlin
Rüdiger Schulz

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Full-Stack Software Engineer / Consultant for Digitalization at ARTEVENT

  • Designed, built, and launched an internal event planning web application used by over 100 department leads for a large event, despite having no dedicated testing phase.

  • Ensured smooth, failure-free operation during first production use, leading to the tool being adopted for future events.

  • Automated catering calculations and related workflows, significantly reducing email communication and manual computation effort for meal planning.

  • Managed deployment and hosting on a Linux server using Coolify, including application setup and runtime operations.

  • Hired and guided a communication designer on UX while independently owning all technical decisions and implementation.

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Anshita Srivastava

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Data & Analytics Professional

Berlin
Anshita Srivastava

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Business Intelligence Developer and Data Analyst at Deloitte Consulting

Specialize in turning complex data from diverse environments into actionable business value through compelling visual storytelling. I am an expert in generating actionable insights and presenting recommendations to business stakeholders. My technical proficiency in SQL, Python, and leading data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI allows me to deliver a new generation of self-service tools and analytics services.

  • Data Visualization & Storytelling: Created impactful data visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and Power BI, effectively communicating findings and presenting actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders and business leaders.
  • Stakeholder Management: Built effective working relationships with key business stakeholders, data engineers, and other partners to achieve common data-driven goals and targets.
  • Insights & Recommendations: Generated actionable insights from complex data analysis for funnel conversion, marketing performance, and ROI, directly influencing business performance and strategy.
  • Data Collaboration & Empowerment: Worked closely with cross-functional teams to support the ongoing data needs of internal partners, helping to optimize internal data processes and workflows.
  • BI & Data Expertise: Applied extensive experience in data modeling, data collection, data mining, and analysis to deliver end-to-end analytical solutions from stakeholder discovery to production.
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Haseeb Zahid

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Senior AI Engineer | LLM Engineer | ML Engineer

Berlin
Haseeb Zahid

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Senior Data Scientist at WPP MEDIA

  • Designed and deployed enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using LangChain, LangGraph, vector databases, embeddings, and open-source LLMs served through vLLM on GCP GPU infrastructure.
  • Built agentic AI workflows using LangGraph with planning, reasoning, tool execution, persistent memory, session management, and Human-in-the-Loop approval mechanisms.
  • Developed LLM-powered automation systems integrating BigQuery, SQL pipelines, and external advertising APIs including Meta, TikTok, Amazon, Snapchat, Google, and Pinterest, reducing manual operational workflows.
  • Architected multi-agent AI systems for enterprise analytics and decision-support workflows, enabling autonomous task execution and intelligent data interactions.
  • Implemented retrieval optimization strategies including multi-retriever architectures, semantic search, context optimization, and query improvement techniques, improving response relevance by approximately 40%.
  • Engineered structured prompting strategies, function-calling schemas, and validation workflows to improve reliability of multi-step LLM applications.
  • Designed scalable AI services using Python, FastAPI, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Docker, and cloud-native deployment architectures.
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Maciej Rosiek

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Full Stack Developer

Berlin
Maciej Rosiek

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Full Stack Developer (Freelancer) at Runbuggy

  • Led development of RunBot AI assistant autonomously using LLM-powered workflow automation (React, TypeScript, Java, MongoDB, NATS)
  • Architected TMS platform providing unified transportation management and real-time logistics visibility with AI processing pipelines
  • Designed event-driven microservices architecture supporting marketplace
  • Drove architectural decisions and technical leadership across full-stack platform development
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Wolfram Knan

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Certified AI & Machine Learning Engineer · Senior Consultant

Berlin
Wolfram Knan

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AI / Machine Learning Engineer (Projects & Applied AI) at UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHEON-SORBONNE & LIORA

  • Designed and implemented a hybrid recommendation system (content-based + collaborative filtering)
  • Built end-to-end ML pipelines including data processing, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation
  • Developed RAG-based LLM systems using LangChain and vector databases for semantic search and knowledge retrieval
  • Established MLOps workflows with MLflow for experiment tracking, versioning, and deployment readiness
  • Implemented deep learning models (computer vision & classification) using PyTorch and TensorFlow
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Joachim Groth

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Software Coordinator / Business Analyst / Developer

Falkensee
Joachim Groth

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Software Coordinator / Business Analyst / Developer at Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Sachsen

  • Leading coordination between business units and IT
  • Coordinating development and testing
  • Business analysis and structured requirements gathering
  • Specifying functional and technical requirements
  • Integrating interfaces to internal systems
  • Developing SQL queries and reports
  • Documentation in Confluence Result: On-time go-live, structured and agreed project basis, ensuring a coordinated project workflow.
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William Nguyen

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Senior/Lead Business Analyst & AI Workflow Consultant | Requirements Engineering | BI | Workflow Automation | Claude Code

Berlin
William Nguyen

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Senior Business Analyst/Requirements Engineer at Finanzen.Net/Finanzen.Zero

  • Analysis of complex business processes and end-to-end user journeys in digital product and platform environments
  • Gathering, structuring, and prioritizing business and technical requirements (Functional / Non-Functional Requirements)
  • Translating business goals into actionable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Conducting stakeholder interviews, workshops, and reviews with business teams, IT, UX, and management
  • Creating and maintaining requirement artifacts (BRD, FRD, user stories, process models, decision papers)
  • Ensuring consistency between business needs, technical implementation, and product vision
  • Close collaboration with development teams to clarify business questions during implementation
  • Support with impact analyses (A/B tests), change requests, and scope management
  • Quality assurance of implemented requirements including acceptance criteria and business testing
  • Advising on the further development of product strategy and roadmap structure
  • Prioritizing backlog items based on business value
  • Defining and sharpening product goals, KPIs, MVP definition, and other success metrics
  • Evaluating new features, tools, and initiatives from a user and business perspective
  • Facilitating decision-making between business, product, and technology
  • Supporting go-to-market considerations and product positioning
  • Sparring partner for product and stakeholder decisions at management level
  • Dashboard creation, data modeling, BI report administration, and data analysis in Power BI
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Lasya Marella

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Data Engineer

Berlin
Lasya Marella

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Data Engineer at Carelon Global Solutions (Elevance Health)

  • Designed and implemented scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, dbt, AWS and Informatica to ingest data from sources such as APIs, relational databases, and flat files into Snowflake, reducing pipeline runtime by ~30%.
  • Migrated high-volume datasets from on-premises Teradata to Snowflake using AWS services (S3, Glue, Step Functions, IAM), ensuring data consistency and integrity.
  • Applied Kimball methodology to design star and snowflake schemas, improving query performance and reducing Snowflake compute costs.
  • Implemented automated data quality checks using SQL-based dbt tests and the Great Expectations framework to detect anomalies and enforce data correctness before production loads.
  • Orchestrated ETL workflows in Airflow using Python and managed code deployments via Git with CI/CD best practices to increase deployment reliability and maintain pipeline uptime.
  • Built interactive Power BI dashboards and curated datasets to enable data-driven decision-making for stakeholders.
  • Maintained technical documentation in Confluence for ETL workflows, and led knowledge-sharing sessions for new joiners.
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Hamza Khan

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Academic Research Contributor in Health Sector (Volunteer)

Berlin
Hamza Khan

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Academic Research Contributor in Health Sector (Volunteer)

  • 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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Ola Van Dunen

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IT Lecturer

Berlin
Ola Van Dunen

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IT Lecturer

  • IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration
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Ersin Keser

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Founder & Lead Architect

Schönefeld
Ersin Keser

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Founder & Lead Architect at ORBYNT / 7Style

  • Full automation of the software development process: ticket analysis → AI coding agents → pull request → automated code review → deployment
  • Multi-tenant architecture with 82 database models and real-time WebSocket monitoring
  • Integration of 40+ AI tools with Claude & GPT
  • Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Express.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ
  • Platform in productive use with paying customers
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Salvation Omorodion

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Product Management Consultant

Berlin
Salvation Omorodion

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Product Management Consultant at Self-Employed (Freelancer)

  • Led end-to-end product discovery and strategy engagements for early-stage founders (pre-seed) clients, defining product vision, OKRs, and go-to-market strategies and roadmaps for their cloud-based and AI-enabled solutions.
  • Designed scalable product operating models (Agile/Scrum, backlog governance, KPI frameworks) as part of the partnership, to improve delivery predictability and reduce feature cycle time by up to 30%.
  • Built scalable product roadmaps aligned to fundraising milestones, helping founders articulate product vision, product<>market fit, and traction clearly to investors.
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Vili Dhamo

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Senior Data Engineer, Data Architect, Software Engineer

Neuenhagen
Vili Dhamo

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Technical Lead, Data Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Consulting

  • Optimized the data architecture (medallion) to better decouple processing stages and improve transparency and reproducibility
  • Ensured technical quality of data processing in Databricks by introducing schema enforcement, data quality checks and a structured data architecture
  • Orchestrated pipelines with Azure Data Factory
  • Professionalized and automated the development and deployment process by integrating Git and GitHub Actions
  • Led the Data Engineering team (3 members) in a functional role
  • Conducted workshops to optimize and stabilize the data platform and the development process
  • Collected and prioritized new requests, maintained the product backlog
  • Technologies: Microsoft Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory), Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark), Python, SQL, Git, Confluence, Power BI, Power Apps, Dataverse, MS SharePoint, Mural
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André Görst

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IT Consulting Project Management / Engineering Subproject Management

Berlin
André Görst

Last position:

IT Consulting Project Management / Engineering Subproject Management at T-Systems (on assignment for government agencies)

  • Projects for federal networks (NdB).
  • CR management, EoL change requests, design and documentation according to ITSCM.
  • Data center planning.
  • Project management and engineering subproject management.
  • Software development for virtual server environments according to BSI.

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Statistics of experts using Microsoft SQL Server

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

21 years (Germany: 23 years)

Position duration

2.3 years (Germany: 3.1 years)

Positions per freelancer

14 (Germany: 15)

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Automotive, Professional Services

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Bachelor's degree or higher

85% (Germany: 84%)

Master's degree or higher

47% (Germany: 49%)

Doctorate

6% (Germany: 8%)

Certifications per freelancer

2 (Germany: 3)

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

90% (Germany: 96%)

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Berlin 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 Berlin using Microsoft SQL Server

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

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Daily rate avg. 744 €
Germany avg. 783 €

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 760 €
Germany median 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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

Core platform

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database system used to store, query, and protect business data. Teams use it for transaction systems, reporting layers, integration jobs, and data models that need clear rules and stable performance. It is common in Microsoft-heavy stacks and in companies that run core processes on Windows or mixed infrastructure.

What specialists deliver

  • Database design, normalization, and indexing
  • T-SQL development for queries, procedures, and views
  • Backup, restore, and high availability setup
  • Performance tuning and troubleshooting
  • Reporting and data movement with SSIS, SSRS, and related tools

Ecosystem and tooling

Strong professionals work across SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Agent, SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS where needed. They also understand security roles, jobs, maintenance plans, and monitoring. In Berlin, that often matters for companies with ERP, finance, logistics, or analytics systems that must stay dependable during business hours.

When to bring in help

Companies usually bring in freelance expertise when queries slow down, migrations are due, or a release changes data logic. The same applies when a legacy Microsoft SQL Server estate needs cleanup, documentation, or a safer backup strategy. Teams also hire specialists for short, focused support when internal staff are busy.

What strong experts do well

A strong specialist reads execution plans, spots missing indexes, and keeps changes safe in production. They write clear T-SQL, handle incidents calmly, and explain trade-offs in plain language. They also know when to improve the query, when to reshape the schema, and when to leave application code alone.

Good project fit

Microsoft SQL Server work fits well when a project needs reliable data handling rather than a quick patch. Freelancers can support one-off fixes, upgrades, migrations, and reporting work, or step in for longer platform support. Remote collaboration works well for many tasks, while on-site time in Berlin can help with workshops, cutovers, and sensitive production changes.

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Frequently asked questions

Curious about Microsoft SQL Server? Here are the answers that come up again and again.

Microsoft SQL Server is used to store operational data, run transactions, and power reports and integrations. It often sits behind line-of-business systems, finance tools, and internal portals. Teams choose it when they need structured data, strong security controls, and predictable performance.

SQL Server is the database product from Microsoft, while SQL is the language used to query many databases. Compared with PostgreSQL or MySQL, it is often chosen for Microsoft integration, built-in administration tools, and enterprise features. The right choice depends on your stack, not on the name alone.

A strong Microsoft SQL Server specialist should know T-SQL, indexing, query tuning, backups, and recovery. For many projects, knowledge of SSIS, SSRS, security, and high availability is also important. If the work touches application code, experience with the surrounding .NET stack helps too.

A simple reporting fix may only need someone who knows the schema and the queries well. Migration, performance, or availability work needs deeper experience with SQL Server internals and change control. The more production risk the project has, the more important proven work on similar systems becomes.

Bring in a freelancer when you need focused help for a migration, a performance issue, or a cleanup after years of growth. Microsoft SQL Server work often benefits from an outside specialist when your team lacks time, fresh eyes, or a specific tool set. Short engagements can be enough to unblock a larger program.

Most SQL Server tasks can be handled remotely because queries, scripts, and backups can be reviewed online. On-site time in Berlin can help during workshops, cutovers, or when access rules are strict. Many teams use a mix of both, depending on the risk and the phase of the project.

Look for clear explanations, safe change habits, and evidence of production work. A good Microsoft SQL Server expert should talk about indexing choices, rollback plans, monitoring, and how they validate results. Sample scripts, migration notes, and incident write-ups are often more useful than vague claims.

SQL Server projects often involve SSIS for data movement, SSRS for reports, and SSAS for analytical models. In Microsoft environments, you may also see Azure SQL, Power BI, .NET, and Windows Server. A freelancer who understands those connections can solve the whole data path, not just one query.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects is 93 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 744 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects, 85% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 47% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects are German (98%), English (93%), and French (21%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Automotive (48%), and Professional Services (48%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Microsoft SQL Server in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (81%), and Project Management (67%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Microsoft SQL Server

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.

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