MySQL Experts in Leipzig
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Jens Oberender
Last position:
Freelance Java Developer / DevOps Engineer at Unpublished defense company
- Extension of OSGi modules in a complex communication solution
- Debugging communication with Wireshark and remotely in the JENS test environment
- Migration of tests from TestNG to JUnit 5 with Mockito and AssertJ
- Updating vulnerable dependencies and improving code quality
- Changes to the Vaadin frontend
- Increasing test coverage
Andreas Fischer
Last position:
Project Manager & Portfolio Owner for Infrastructure (Automotive) at MHP Management- und IT-Beratung GmbH
- Overall coordination of service providers for all infrastructure topics at a production site being set up in Baden-Württemberg
- Design and finding solutions for internet connectivity, building office communication networks, setting up WLAN in production and administration buildings, IP address management, password policies, time tracking, access control systems, backup strategies, emergency power planning, operating concepts, cost planning, event management, workplace setup including laptop/mobile phones/telephony, remote support, print servers
- Selecting suitable external service providers and planning to meet needs for spare parts, repairs, on-site service, network and workplace support including on-site system replacement by providers
- Choosing suitable external service providers for facility management and building technology (fiber optic connections, data center infrastructure, cable ducts etc.)
- Coordination with clients and service providers
- Escalation management, schedule control
- On-site presence for service meetings and managing service providers
Frank Richter
Last position:
eCommerce Software Developer at WirTube-Shop
- Maintenance and system handover
- Planning and carrying out core and plugin updates
- Developing a plugin to extend invoice creation and payment via Flow Builder
Peter Teich
Last position:
Freelance Go-Developer/DevOps-Engineer at IONOS SE
- Implementation of an API for customers to provide NFS shares in the cloud
- Creating Kubernetes operators and services with REST APIs in Go
- Using LinuxKit for provisioning VMs
Gwen Glaser
Last position:
Senior Ruby on Rails & DevOps Developer at Sapiens
Further development of a software solution for managing test requests and test notifications according to §106d SGB V for the Hamburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.
- Developed numerous features, performance optimizations, refactoring, error analysis
- Refactored the dev container setup
- Optimized the GitLab CI build pipeline
- Contributed optimizations to the team workflow
Julian Haluska
Last position:
Working Student / Master's Thesis Student Software Development at Scale GmbH
- Tech-Stack: Python, Qt, tensorflow.js, plotly, Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Git
Aisha Muhammad Arshad
Last position:
Operation Associate at Swappie
- Achieved full productivity within 2 weeks of onboarding in a high-volume operational environment.
- Consistently exceeded quality targets, maintaining 98% accuracy across all assigned tasks.
- Recognized by leadership for exceptional performance and rapid adaptation to complex workflows.
Michael Lühr
Last position:
B2B Shop Development for Curtain Fabrics
- Development of a B2B shop based on Magento 2
- Plugin research and implementation, e.g. custom prices per customer
- Implementation of individual customizations
- Quality assurance
- Release management
- Collaboration with the marketing team
- Technologies: Magento 2, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Docker, Git
Norbert Stein
Last position:
Technical training & open-source work at Personal Project
- training and official certification as Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- open-source development and documentation in a personal project
- keeping updated about cloud native and AI technologies through courses and books
- Tech: Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, Node.js
Knud Werner
Last position:
Lead Programmer, Architect and Deputy Product Owner at Bundesagentur für Arbeit
- Lead programmer, architect and deputy product owner
- Completed transition from zPDV to STEP
- Ensured quality of C++ and Perl sources through automated and manual checks
- Supported resolution of incidents and errors in testing
- Implemented batch for supplementary assignment of payment run numbers
- Implemented batch for distribution of SGB 2 information to the central payment unit
- Supported replacement of Solaris with Linux
- Upgraded gcc from 7.4 to 9.3
- Programmatically generated Makefiles from Borland projects for builds
- Extended funding data with new attribute “internship travel cost indicator”
- Programmatically generated XSD and WSDL files from IDL definitions
- Represented the product owner when needed
- Implemented batch for one-time payment processing
- Developed generator for Liquibase files
- Implemented and maintained regular anonymization of production data
- Supported migration from SLES 12 to SLES 15
- Supported introduction of mutual TLS
- Implemented batch for sending deletion impulses to EDA BE
- Organized script directory structure
- Investigated potential introduction of String-Latin and implemented minimal solution
- Remediated security findings identified by CheckMarx
- Supported PAP recalculations and general change notices
- Converted ERP interfaces from SOAP to REST
- Planned technical and business topics such as register modernization, cash register security, training costs, four-eyes principle
Jens Fischer
Last position:
Strategic Business Consultant at EURO Kartensysteme
- Analysis, redesign and functional specification for a software system to record, process and reimburse all claims in the girocard scheme
- Analysis, conception and execution for a bidding for the introduction and implementation of Identity & Access Management, Masterdata Management and Document Management Systems
- Project management for the software development project for the EKS-Net platform for the recording, processing and reimbursement of all claims in the girocard scheme
- Project management for the introduction of Identity and Access Management System, Master Data Management System and Document Management System
- Strategy consulting for digitalization of business processes
- Advice on payment transactions, compliance (PEP and sanction list checks) and risk analysis
- Design of data models and APIs
Sebastián Katzer
Last position:
Smart Charging at Mercedes-Benz, MBTI
Agile software development in an interdisciplinary environment
Cross-team collaboration to achieve important milestones
Independently developing new and improving existing features
Estimation, refinement, implementation, and presentation
Finding solution ideas, analyzing problems, rolling out bug fixes
Writing automated tests, manual testing, log and error analysis
Ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of the production environment
Rolling out releases and multi-stage infrastructure
Setting up alerts and monitoring
Pair programming, code reviews, documentation
On-call duty, 3rd level support
Event-Driven Architecture, Clean Code, Hexagonal Architecture
Microservices based on Go (Gin), Java 21 (Spring Boot 3), Python (FastAPI)
Terraform/OpenTofu, KQL, SQL, JSON, REST, Helm, ArgoCD, AzureCLI, K9s, OAuth2
Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Azure EventHub, Kubernetes, nginx, Ingress
AppInsights, LogAnalytics, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, OpenAPI 3, Swagger
Azure DataExplorer, Storage, KeyVault, Container Registry, Azure Functions,…
Junit5/Jupiter, testify, RestAssured, Docker Compose, Wiremock
IntelliJ, Scrum, Kanban, Teams, Confluence, OpsGenie, Arc42
GitHub CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps
EV charging protocols (EVSE, OCPP, V1G, V2G)
Tom Cernohorsky
Last position:
Web Developer at Puder + Consortio; Feldenkrais Verena Tintelnot; Maxim Gorki Theater; Grunwald & Grundwald Architektur und Städtebau; Wanderkino
- Implementation and updates of various websites for:
- Puder + Consortio
- Feldenkrais Verena Tintelnot
- "Mely Kiyak hat Kunst" at the Maxim Gorki Theater
- Grunwald & Grundwald Architektur und Städtebau
- Wanderkino
Andreas Müller
Last position:
Managing Director at ESIS-ERP GmbH
- took over as managing director
Linus Heske
Last position:
Software Developer at Check24 Vergleichsportalreise Reise Gmbh
- Designing, developing, and maintaining web portals, including creating and connecting interfaces to other systems (APIs)
- Performing error analysis and troubleshooting
- Designing and implementing data structures
- Refactoring software components to improve maintainability
- Creating user interfaces
- Web portal for monitoring error messages (PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, ExtJS 5.0, Symfony)
- Web portal for electric car buying advice, further development, and providing a white-label solution for a startup in the e-mobility sector (PHP, Symfony, JavaScript, Bootstrap 5)
- Providing a REST API for a healthcare app (PHP, Symfony API Platform, AWS)
- Developing middleware for data exchange between multiple applications (PHP)
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Statistics of experts using MySQL
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
2.6 years (Germany: 5.2 years)
Positions per freelancer
14 (Germany: 13)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Audit, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
82% (Germany: 87%)
Master's degree or higher
45% (Germany: 53%)
Doctorate
9% (Germany: 8%)
Certifications per freelancer
1 (Germany: 2)
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
93% (Germany: 97%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Leipzig 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 Leipzig using MySQL
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
Core database work
MySQL is a relational database used to store and query structured data for web apps, internal tools, commerce systems, and analytics layers. Strong experts shape tables, keys, and constraints so data stays consistent as products grow. They also adapt MySQL to the load and access patterns of the application.
Typical tasks
- Schema design for new products and modules
- Query writing and optimization for slow endpoints
- Backup, restore, and recovery planning
- Replication setup for read scaling and resilience
- Migration work from legacy databases or older MySQL setups
Ecosystem and tooling
MySQL often sits inside a stack with PHP, Java, Python, Node.js, Docker, and cloud services. Professionals work with tools such as MySQL Workbench, performance schema, and common migration and monitoring tooling. They also understand storage engines, indexing, and transaction behavior.
When freelance help matters
Companies bring in freelance MySQL specialists when a release is blocked by slow queries, when a system needs cleanup after years of growth, or when a migration must happen with minimal downtime. In Leipzig, that often means supporting product teams, agencies, and operations groups that need clear communication and reliable handover.
What strong experts do
Strong MySQL professionals do more than write SQL. They read execution plans, spot missing indexes, control locking issues, and make sure backups are actually restorable. They document changes clearly so teams can keep running the database after the assignment ends.
Good fit signals
- Data grows faster than the current schema can handle
- Reports or pages are slowed by repeated queries
- Replication, failover, or restore steps are unclear
- A migration to MySQL or from MySQL is planned
- The team needs outside review before a release
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to MySQL.
MySQL is used to store structured application data, power transactions, and serve reporting queries. It is common in web products, content systems, order handling, user accounts, and APIs that need dependable reads and writes.
MySQL is often chosen for straightforward relational workloads, broad tool support, and familiar operational patterns. PostgreSQL is usually preferred when advanced SQL features or complex querying matter more, while MariaDB can be a close alternative for teams that want a MySQL-compatible path with some different internals.
A strong MySQL specialist usually also knows SQL, indexing, transactions, replication, and backup strategies. Familiarity with Linux, cloud hosting, application debugging, and one or two backend languages helps when database work touches the full stack.
A MySQL project can start with a small amount of context if the issue is clear, such as a slow query or a backup problem. Larger work like schema redesign or migration needs access to the data model, application flows, and the current deployment setup.
Most MySQL work can be done remotely because schema changes, query tuning, and replication checks are usually managed through secure access. On-site time can help when a team wants workshop-style planning, live incident support, or close work with stakeholders in Leipzig.
Look for slow pages, rising lock waits, unreliable backups, or a growing number of quick fixes around the database. If the team no longer trusts its own schema, replication, or restore process, MySQL expertise is usually worth bringing in.
A good MySQL professional explains trade-offs clearly, backs changes with evidence from query plans or test runs, and leaves the system easier to operate. They should also be careful about rollback steps, backup checks, and documentation, not just query speed.
Yes. MySQL works well for new products when the data model is clear and the team wants a proven relational database, and it is also common in long-running systems that need maintenance or modernization. The key is matching the workload to the database design, not forcing MySQL into every use case.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used MySQL in their recent projects is 92 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 739 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used MySQL in their recent projects, 82% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 45% hold at least a Master's degree, and 9% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used MySQL in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used MySQL in their recent projects are German (100%), English (93%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used MySQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Retail (53%), and Banking and Finance (47%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used MySQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (93%), and Operations (60%).
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