MS-DOS Experts in Germany
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Rudolf Eggelbusch
Last position:
Datacenter Engineer, Network & Security Administrator at International insurance group
Operation and further development of the network and security infrastructure.
Monitoring, analysis and resolution of network and security incidents.
Cross-department collaboration with other specialist teams for operations, further development and reporting.
Firewall vulnerability analysis.
Firewall rule approvals.
Troubleshooting IP communication issues in the network and firewall infrastructure.
Security-critical IT infrastructure, processing of personal data, compliance with legal regulations.
Products: Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Cisco ACI, Checkpoint Firewalls, F5
Technologies: SDN, SDWAN, Cisco EPIC, Cisco ACI
Robert Karash
Last position:
Interim Manager | Group Leader in the IT Operations & Digitalization Division "Databases, Operations & Support" (DOS) at Landwirtschaftliche RentenBank
- Technical leadership and further development of a team of 28 IT staff (internal & external) in the areas HelpDesk/HelpLine, RHEL (Red Hat), MUREX (trading system & applications), SAP basis operations
- Managing external service providers (including FI-TS for SAP basis operations)
- Personnel, resource and budget planning for the IT department and projects
- Introducing and establishing regular communication formats (weekly status meetings, team and cross-department meetings)
- Ensuring application operations in a hybrid environment (Windows/Linux with database and web/application servers)
- Supporting transformation projects to modernize the application landscape (e.g. DevOps approaches)
- Setting up and implementing a digital IT procurement for hardware & software (e.g. with DELL)
- Developing and managing the "IT Operations DOS" department based on corporate strategy
- Preparing management reports & decision papers on IT projects, optimization potential and automation opportunities
- Representing the department in the advisory boards of the Rentenbank and ensuring regulatory compliance (BaFin §44, GDPR, BSI, MaRisk)
Vladimir Filatov
Last position:
IT Consultant at ITZBund
- ITSM consulting, analysis and optimization of IT capacity with BMC TSCO / BMC Helix
- Drafting "Governance guidelines for operational capacity management"
Michael Kunisch
Last position:
Freelance Consultant at Tepo – Gebäudedienste GmbH
- Replacement and renewal of the existing client PCs with an upgrade to Windows 11 and mobile workstations with laptops and docking stations
- Introduction of Office365 with OneDrive use
- Introduction of e-invoicing with DATEV accounting software
- Revision of the standard office applications in daily use
- File storage in SharePoint instead of local data storage
- New authorization structure for users
- Use of Microsoft accounts to synchronize profiles
- Reorganization of the document scanning process with storage in SharePoint
- New backup concept in addition to the Microsoft cloud solution
- Introduction of new data structures: review and separation of data into active, inactive, private, business
- Simplification of processes
- Increased data security and improved security
- Permanent data availability at all internal and external workplaces
Vinod Goyal
Last position:
Freelancer: SAP MDG Consultant at Logistics service provider
- Support for one of the largest logistics service providers in handling ServiceNow tickets in the areas of SAP MDG, Business Partner (BP), customer and supplier master data
- Technical analysis and resolution of tickets through in-depth review of various database tables
- Creation and maintenance of accounting clerks in the system
- Deactivation of company codes using transports
- Carrying out mass changes with LSMW (Legacy System Migration Workbench)
Stefan Rest
Last position:
Senior Product Owner at Bosch & ETAS Automotive
- Product Owner for Digital Delivery Team
- Bosch-wide digitization project for software deliveries
- Technologies: SAP EMS, JFrog, Revenera
- Running PI planning sessions
Jens Schneeweiß
Last position:
Network Technology at ISP, Internet Service Provider, BGP Peering
- Optimization of the transmission media of the data links in the Ruhr area
- Configuration/expansion of switches and routers for an autonomous system AS
- Improve the network protocols used Layer 2/3 (OSI model), RSTP, broadcast, etc.
- Laying cables, crimping, antennas, routers, switches
- Maintenance, expansion, selection and prioritization of troubleshooting measures for network monitoring (PRTG, The Dude)
- Organization and new connection of another BGP peering, data center, NGN fiber optic
- VPN IPSec site connections for 6 sites with PFSense, Fritzbox
- Configuration of WLAN devices (Mikrotik, UBNT
Label: TCP/IP, VLAN, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VPLS, routing protocols, WLAN, EoIP, PPPoE, routing, SNMP, DHCP, DNS, NAT, native IP, VLAN, Ethernet, VoIP., switches and routers from: Nortel, Cisco, MikroTik, UBNT., network management systems: The Dude, PRTG, UISP
Oliver Juehrendt
Last position:
Country Manager DACH & GREECE at LINKAN Ltd
- Working as Country Manager in Global Sourcing, Production Management, Quality Control, Logistics and (Digital)Trade.
Ola Van Dunen
Last position:
IT Lecturer
- IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration
Stephan Heilmann
Last position:
Development, Tester at Telecommunications
Set up an operational contract information system. This is mainly used as an order management system - for migrating existing contracts as well as for creating and providing new contract bundles.
Sales agents can use it to order new services, modify existing ones and migrate service types, as well as provide price information to the customer.
This supports the marketing of new services as well as the replacement of old services for existing customers.
In addition, existing data is imported, processed (ETL) and provided via services for further use in the portal front end.
Analysis of the business and technical use cases (workflows, involved processes/systems, communication paths, security requirements)
Further development / creation of the front-end components (React/JavaScript)
Design and implementation of the business logic
Creation of the functional and technical component documentation
Test execution / test automation (Cypress, test coverage)
Team size: 8 people
Technologies: React, JavaScript, Rest (JSon), Yaml, Markdown, MariaDB (SQL), Docker, Swagger, Cypress
Tools: Webstorm, ReactDeveloperTools, VisualStudioCode, Word, DBeaver, Git/GitLab
Work management: GitLab
Platform: Linux
Build management: GitLab
Peter Jehle
Last position:
Interim Teamlead at Somnomedics
- Interim Teamlead to setup a project with STM32 and NORA Bluetooth module.
- Customer is planning new hardware to replace existing hardware with Bluetooth communication instead cable connection.
- Project was already started but the requirements were not defined.
- System based on STM32 and Nora B106 CPU.
- Analyzing the existing available code base.
- Checking for possible solutions to get the project working.
- Defining the requirements.
- Applying some rules to improve the team communication.
- Working with the NRF tools to get the custom board based on NORA B106 (NRF5340) working.
- Implementation of a simple device communication by Bluetooth.
- Preparation of documentation.
- Leading communication meetings.
- Conducted discussions with customer.
- Tools used: JIRA, OneNote, Git, Confluence, Nordic NRF, Nora B106.
Bernhard Schmitz
Last position:
Agile Business Analyst and Requirements Engineer at Deutsche Post DHL
- Agile project "PEPSi annual vacation planning MVP Lite" (digitalization project).
- Definition of state transitions for the JUP Lite functionality.
- Creation of user stories for login/logout and registration.
- Quality assurance of the business-side concept.
- Preliminary analysis for the transformation from the old PersPlan to DigiPEP.
- Tools used: Signavio, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Jira, Confluence, Mural, Miro, Conceptboard, MS Teams, Mattermost.
Ernst Höfler
Last position:
Support/Development/Consulting – Process Development, E-Invoicing, XRechnung, ZUGFeRD
- Support and further development of a complex process for creating XML documents for electronic invoices / E-Invoicing (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD)
- Automation of operational processes, process development and optimization
- Development of frontend applications with MS Power Apps
- Porting SQL Server 2016 to SQL Server 2022
- SQL Server database administration
Alex Odesser
Last position:
Contractor at Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
- Data-analysis, Preparation, gathering and coordination of business requirements for retrieval of monthly- and long term (CLV – relevant) cost- and revenue-components per contract for a customer–base–grouping project (HUB–Project) for B2C-Postpaid-Controlling
- Concept and Implementation of cost- and revenue-KPIs calculation and corresponding CLV–reports (Oracle, Perl, SVN, MS SQL Server, MS Power BI, Serviceware Performance Analytics)
- Operational support of the HUB-Project – various ad-hoc reports, deployments, job-scheduling etc. (Oracle, SVN, BICSuite–Scheduler, DWSODA etc.)
- Analysis, implementation, retrieval and reporting of various physical and financial KPIs for B2P-Prepaid Business on an existing data-mart (Oracle, Perl)
Patrick Waldschmitt
Last position:
AI Software Engineer at IppenMedia
- Analysis
- Consulting
- Software design
- Development
- Automation
- Testing
- Deployment
- Architecture, development and deployment of various proof-of-concept applications around the integration of current AI interfaces including conversational, realtime voice, images and videos
- Developed best practices for working with agentic systems and AI in practice
- Created code templates
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Statistics of experts using MS-DOS
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
31 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
24
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
69%
Master's degree or higher
43%
Doctorate
5%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using MS-DOS
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
Legacy DOS systems
MS-DOS is the command-line operating system behind many older PCs, terminals, and embedded setups. It is still relevant where proven startup scripts, low-level hardware access, or stable legacy workflows matter. Companies hire specialists to keep these systems running without disrupting production.
Typical work
- Maintain boot disks, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and CONFIG.SYS files
- Update batch scripts and command-line tools
- Restore access to old business software
- Support hardware that still expects DOS behavior
- Document legacy workflows for later migration
Ecosystem
Strong MS-DOS work often includes PC DOS, FreeDOS, classic Norton tools, and old Microsoft utilities. Professionals need comfort with file systems, disk formats, memory limits, and hardware quirks. They also need a careful hand, because small changes can break a system that has no margin for error.
When to hire
Bring in freelance expertise when a legacy application only runs under DOS, a site needs help after a failed boot, or a migration must preserve old data and scripts. In Germany, this is common in industrial plants, service centers, archives, and other environments where older machines still matter.
What strong specialists do
Good specialists read old configuration files quickly, test safely, and explain risks in plain language. They know how to diagnose startup problems, missing drivers, and path issues without guessing. They also leave clear notes so internal teams can support the system after handover.
Migration and support
MS-DOS projects are often about control, not change for its own sake. A strong expert can stabilize a live setup, extract data from old media, or plan a clean move to a newer environment. That mix of support, recovery, and migration is what makes the work valuable.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to MS-DOS.
MS-DOS is still used for legacy software, simple boot environments, and systems that depend on old batch files or direct hardware access. It is also common in recovery work when teams need to read old disks or start machines that no longer boot normally. In many cases, the goal is to keep a critical old process running while planning a safe move away from it.
MS-DOS is the Microsoft version most people mean when they say DOS. PC DOS is IBM’s closely related variant, and Microsoft DOS is a common informal name searchers use. For hiring, the important point is whether the specialist understands the specific boot, file, and batch-script behavior of the system in question.
A strong MS-DOS freelancer can diagnose startup problems, repair batch files, review CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, and work safely with old media and hardware. They should also explain what is risky before making changes. Good professionals leave the system more understandable, not just temporarily fixed.
The most useful adjacent skills are hardware troubleshooting, file recovery, batch scripting, and familiarity with legacy peripherals and storage formats. Many MS-DOS projects also touch migration planning, because the long-term goal is often to move data or processes to a newer system. Clear documentation skills matter too, since old setups are often poorly recorded.
Most MS-DOS tasks need someone who has worked with real legacy environments, not only read about them. Simple script fixes may be straightforward, but boot failures, driver conflicts, and disk recovery require careful diagnosis. If the system is business critical, it is worth choosing a specialist who has handled similar old-world setups before.
Yes, many MS-DOS tasks can be handled remotely if the system is already reachable or if someone on site can share screens, logs, or file images. Remote work is often enough for script review, troubleshooting, and planning a migration. On-site help becomes more useful when the issue involves hardware, removable media, or a machine that will not boot.
Look for careful diagnosis, clear explanations, and safe changes. A good MS-DOS specialist does not guess at fixes or overwrite files without a backup plan. Quality also shows up in the handover: good notes, exact steps, and an honest view of what can still fail later.
MS-DOS expertise is valuable when older industrial systems, lab equipment, archive stations, or service tools still depend on DOS-based software. In Germany, these projects are often tied to maintenance, continuity, and controlled migration rather than new development. Companies usually want a specialist who can work with local teams and keep disruption low.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used MS-DOS in their recent projects is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 792 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used MS-DOS in their recent projects, 69% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 43% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used MS-DOS in their recent projects have 31 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used MS-DOS in their recent projects are German (100%), English (96%), and French (31%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used MS-DOS in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Manufacturing (69%), and Banking and Finance (65%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used MS-DOS in their recent projects are Information Technology (96%), Project Management (79%), and Quality Assurance (77%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used MS-DOS
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