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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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Thomas H.

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Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer

Munich
Thomas H.

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Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer at Trianel Energy

  • Build and operate an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for the automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer).
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment.
  • Integrate MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
  • Develop and containerize PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
  • Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), log centralization, and cost monitoring.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connect to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
  • Migrate existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) with integration into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
  • Extend the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
  • Analyze and architect a software solution to process large volumes of data efficiently (>3000 messages/sec.) (market data store).
  • Spring Boot / Java 21 container development with RabbitMQ for distributing stock market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
  • Integration of RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
  • Build an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
  • Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
  • Develop Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming stock market data (Pandas, scikit-learn).
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Sukumar R.

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Machine Learning / AI Architect

Munich
Sukumar R.

Last position:

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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Serge K.

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Data Science & Machine Learning Operations

Munich
Serge K.

Last position:

Data Scientist & MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) at REWE Digital GmbH

  • It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
  • GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
  • Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
  • CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment
  • Development of feature store and data synchronization between environments
  • Data science: evaluation of different forecasting models, including CatBoost, Contextual Gamma and Random Forest; implementation of training pipelines using Kubeflow on Vertex AI; scaling and development of an event-driven interface using Kafka as a forecasting service; evaluation of MLFlow for model tracking and model registry
  • Implementation of REST API using KeyCloak OAuth2 and OpenID (JWT)
  • Monitoring: implementation of dashboards with Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Streamlit and Loki to monitor prediction metrics, GCP and Snowflake costs for pipelines, and system metrics
  • Development of Copilot Agent Skills
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Vitaliy R.

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DevOps GitOps (temp)

Puchheim
Vitaliy R.

Last position:

DevOps GitOps (temp) at Signal Iduna

  • Responsible for Openshift/Kubernetes on-prem administration and developer support.
  • Developed URP infrastructure automation with Python, Ansible, Kustomize and ArgoCD, Argo Workflow/Events stack.
  • Wrote smoke and load tests for URP infrastructure utilizing Python, Kustomize and ApplicationSets.
  • Helped to set up and deploy URP infrastructure in Google Cloud, GKE.
  • Set up monitoring for URP and ArgoCD stack with Splunk Cloud.
  • Performed system administration tasks across RedHat Linux, Kubernetes/Openshift, ArgoCD, GitLab, Bitbucket Enterprise, Kafka and MongoDB.
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Stephan B.

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Freelance Data Scientist

Munich
Stephan B.

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Freelance Data Scientist at Baier Data & AI Consulting

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Tezcan D.

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Solution Architect / Project Manager

München
Tezcan D.

Last position:

Solution Architect / Project Manager at German Football Association

  • Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
  • Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
  • Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
  • Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
  • Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
  • Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
  • Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions
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Alexandre S.

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Cloud Engineer

München
Alexandre S.

Last position:

Cloud Engineer at Dectris AG

  • Build a scalable multi-region backend service in AWS to serve remote desktop virtual machines for scientific analysis
  • Stack: AWS, GitHub, Terraform, Python, Rust
  • Built and defined the core infrastructure of the backend system
  • Defined and coded the virtual machines provisioning supporting Ubuntu and Rocky Linux desktop setups
  • Programmed the API service running in ECS to manage virtual machines and build custom Docker images for users
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Jennifer K.

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AI Product Manager and Engineer

Munich
Jennifer K.

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AI Product Manager and Engineer at Human-in-the-Loop Studio

  • Architected and built a GenAI-based automated asset-generation tool for social media campaigns using Nano Banana and Python. It takes a campaign brief, target audience, and two products as input, generates optimized prompts for image and text creation, and uses functions for text positioning, visually appealing overlays, resizing, and structured uploads to AWS S3.
  • Engineered and built a multi-agent news intelligence platform with specialized roles including retriever agents (Tavily web scraping), synthesizer agents, and Claude as curator/orchestrator, designing autonomous agent collaboration patterns using LangChain and RAG.
  • Built an autonomous customer service agent using n8n and LLMs, delivering end-to-end support automation with transparent reasoning, governance controls, and scalable workflow orchestration using Python and vector databases.
  • Developed a financial validation engine featuring ML-powered anomaly detection for invoice plausibility, compliance automation, and risk mitigation using TensorFlow and SQL.
  • Created a cost optimization application using OCR, AI, Pandas, and NumPy for data analysis to identify cost optimization potential.
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Martin M.

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Product Owner AI Learning Platform

München
Martin M.

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Product Owner AI Learning Platform at B2B Tech Scale-Up

  • Agile development of a multimodal analysis platform for training materials (video, audio, documents) using Scrum
  • Extraction of context-relevant content based on user profiles & competency dimensions
  • Personalized delivery of learning content to improve sales performance
  • Close coordination with sales teams & stakeholders to validate features
  • Use of Gemini, Whisper, Python & JavaScript, deployment on AWS, Perl for scripting data imports
  • Integration into existing tools & CRM systems for smooth adoption
  • Technologies used: Python, OpenAI, DB tech such as PostgreSQL, CI/CD for AirFlow DAGs, FastAPI
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Nima N.

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Data and AI architect

Munich
Nima N.

Last position:

Co founding LLM Engineer at LLM Ventures

  • Co-founded an AI venture focused on building production-grade LLM applications and agentic systems
  • Designed and implemented multi-agent AI workflows for financial and trading applications
  • Developed LLM-powered copilot architectures for portfolio analysis, trade management, and personalized user coaching
  • Built on-device and edge-deployed inference applications, optimizing models for low latency, privacy, and resource-constrained environments
  • Led system architecture decisions across model selection, orchestration, state management, and deployment
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Sebastian D.

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Data Scientist

Munich
Sebastian D.

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Data Scientist at CLADE GmbH

  • Designed and implemented a robust Python-based data processing framework that supported the transition from R to Python and significantly improved data science productivity by providing maintainable, standardized modules for frequently used workflows, following coding best practices and DevOps principles
  • Evaluated, trained, and deployed machine learning models on cloud platforms and edge devices, enabling fully automated mid-infrared (MIR) data evaluation pipelines that eliminated manual analysis steps and significantly shortened the time from measurement to prediction for customers and internal stakeholders
  • Analyzed and interpreted multivariate MIR spectral data from the company’s proprietary analyzer using R and Python, supporting reliable identification and quantitation of chemical compounds in solution
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Nurbüke T.

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Software Engineer

Munich
Nurbüke T.

Last position:

Working Student – Software Engineer at Rohde & Schwarz

  • Developing software tools within the EICACS program (LDACS project) supporting secure avionics communication.
  • Built Python-based automation and monitoring services to validate AI components under Trustable AI guidelines.
  • Designed CI/CD and test pipelines improving reproducibility and reliability across teams.
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Anton K.

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Head of Overall Technical Integration NSC / Hadoop Cloud Development

Munich
Anton K.

Last position:

Head of Overall Technical Integration NSC / Hadoop Cloud Development at IABG

  • Head of overall technical integration NSC (National Secure Cloud, project with approx. 60 employees).

  • Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces and basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG platform.

  • Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) capable of creating private/mixed clouds of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.

  • CMP also includes the complete hardware management lifecycle.

  • Kubernetes, OpenStack and Hadoop are used as the foundation.

  • The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are configured automatically.

  • Private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop layer with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 additional ML/DL technologies.

  • Hadoop worker clusters can also be installed automatically without Kubernetes on bare metal or commodity hardware.

  • OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.

  • Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, DB.

  • Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, Rke2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3S), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).

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Statistics of experts using MLOps

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

15 years (Germany: 13 years)

MLOps experts in Munich have 15 years of professional experience on average. It is 2 years more than in Germany, where the average stands at 13 years.

Position duration

1.8 years (Germany: 2.9 years)

MLOps experts in Munich stay in a single position for 1.8 years on average. It is 1.1 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 2.9 years.

Positions per freelancer

12 (Germany: 9)

MLOps experts in Munich have completed 12 positions on average over the course of their careers. It is 3 more than in Germany, where the average stands at 9.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

MLOps experts in Munich have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Business Intelligence.

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance

MLOps experts in Munich are most in demand in Information Technology, Professional Services, and Banking and Finance.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management

MLOps experts in Munich earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Project Management.

Bachelor's degree or higher

100% (Germany: 99%)

100% of MLOps experts in Munich hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 1% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 99%.

Master's degree or higher

83% (Germany: 77%)

83% of MLOps experts in Munich hold at least a Master's degree. It is 6% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 77%.

Doctorate

39% (Germany: 23%)

39% of MLOps experts in Munich have a doctorate (PhD). It is 16% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 23%.

Certifications per freelancer

2 (Germany: 3)

MLOps experts in Munich hold 2 professional certifications on average. It is 1 fewer than in Germany, where the average stands at 3.

Most common languages

German, English, French

MLOps experts in Munich most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 97%)

100% of MLOps experts in Munich speak two or more languages. It is 3% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 97%.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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5% of MLOps experts in Munich charge less than €480 per day.
5% of MLOps experts in Munich charge between €480 and €640 per day.
14% of MLOps experts in Munich charge between €640 and €800 per day.
67% of MLOps experts in Munich charge between €800 and €960 per day.
5% of MLOps experts in Munich charge between €960 and €1120 per day.
5% of MLOps experts in Munich charge €1120 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Munich 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 Munich using MLOps

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

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Daily rate avg. 821 €
Germany avg. 777 €

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 800 €
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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

MLOps 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 (96%)
  • Professional Services (58%)
  • Banking and Finance (54%)
  • Manufacturing (46%)
  • Retail (42%)
  • Automotive (38%)
  • Insurance (38%)
  • Education (33%)

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

About the technology

What MLOps covers

MLOps, short for Machine Learning Operations, brings software delivery, data operations and machine learning together. It covers the practices and tooling needed to train, validate, deploy, monitor and retrain models reliably. The goal is a repeatable path from experiment to production rather than a handover between isolated teams.

Production use cases

Companies use MLOps to operate recommendation engines, fraud detection, forecasting, computer vision and natural language systems. Strong delivery processes help teams manage changing data, model versions and production dependencies.

  • Automate training and validation pipelines
  • Package and deploy models through controlled workflows
  • Monitor drift, latency, quality and resource use
  • Trigger retraining from new data or model signals

Tools and ecosystem

MLOps work often spans Python, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. Specialists may use MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, DVC, Feast, Terraform and managed services from AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. The right stack depends on data volume, compliance needs, model type and existing platform standards.

When expertise matters

Freelance expertise is useful when experiments are not reaching production, deployments depend on manual steps or model performance changes after release. It also helps when data scientists, software teams and operations groups need shared interfaces and ownership.

  • Establish versioning for code, data and models
  • Design CI/CD for machine learning workflows
  • Add observability and model governance
  • Move prototypes into secure cloud or Kubernetes environments

What strong specialists deliver

Experienced professionals connect model behavior with operational constraints. They define reproducible environments, reliable release gates and clear rollback paths, then document how pipelines are operated. They also understand feature stores, experiment tracking, serving patterns and the difference between data drift and a failing model.

For teams in Munich, collaboration may combine remote delivery with on-site workshops. Clear English is common in international projects, while German can help with local stakeholders and regulated business processes.

Choosing the right fit

Assess specialists through a concrete discussion of your data flow, deployment target and model lifecycle. Ask how they would test a pipeline, secure model artifacts, monitor prediction quality and respond to drift. Look for evidence of production ownership, not only notebook work or isolated cloud configuration.

A good engagement ends with maintainable pipelines, useful alerts and an operating model that internal teams can run. Adjacent strengths in software engineering, data engineering, Kubernetes, cloud security and platform design often determine whether the result remains dependable after handover.

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Frequently asked questions

Key details about MLOps, drawn from the questions we get asked most.

MLOps is used to move machine learning models from experiments into dependable production services. It supports training automation, model versioning, deployment, monitoring, governance and controlled retraining.

MLOps extends DevOps for systems whose behavior depends on data and model quality. Alongside code releases, it manages datasets, features, experiments, model artifacts, drift and prediction performance.

MLOps projects often include MLflow or Kubeflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, DVC and Terraform. Cloud services from AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure may provide managed training, registries, orchestration and model serving.

A strong MLOps freelancer usually combines machine learning with Python, data engineering, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, observability, security and API design are valuable when models must run as reliable services.

The right MLOps experience depends on the system’s risk, deployment complexity and team structure. A simple managed service may need focused pipeline knowledge, while regulated or high-volume workloads require production operations, governance and incident handling.

MLOps work is often suitable for remote collaboration because repositories, cloud environments and monitoring tools are shared online. On-site sessions in Munich can still help with architecture workshops, access procedures and alignment with data, security or business teams.

Evaluate MLOps work through reproducibility, safe releases, meaningful monitoring and clear recovery procedures. Ask for a walkthrough of versioned data and models, automated tests, access controls, alert handling and the handover documentation.

Before starting, an MLOps freelancer should clarify the model lifecycle, data sources, serving target, cloud boundaries and ownership after release. They should also identify quality signals, compliance constraints, existing tooling and who will respond when data or predictions change.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used MLOps in their recent projects is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 821 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used MLOps in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 83% hold at least a Master's degree, and 39% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used MLOps in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.8 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used MLOps in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (21%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used MLOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (96%), Professional Services (58%), and Banking and Finance (54%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used MLOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (92%), and Business Intelligence (83%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used MLOps

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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