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Mohamad K.

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Senior Backend Developer

Zürich
Mohamad K.

Last position:

Senior Backend Developer at Standing on Giants

  • Led architecture and end-to-end engineering delivery for community-driven SaaS platforms serving 2M+ monthly active users.
  • Architected and led the migration of a monolithic Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL database and LangChain with codebase to an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS EKS, sustaining 10x traffic growth from ~150 RPS to 1,500+ RPS with zero re-architecture cycles.
  • Defined and enforced engineering standards across services including API contracts, observability baselines, and deployment topology, reducing production incidents by 55% and MTTR from 2 hours to under 25 minutes within 9 months.
  • Redesigned the caching and query layer using multi-tier Redis caching and database indexing/partitioning, cutting p95 API latency from 850ms to 180ms (78% reduction) and database CPU load by 45%.
  • Built CI/CD platform on GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS) with blue-green and canary rollouts, increasing deployment frequency from ~2/month to 8-12/day and reducing lead time from 10 days to under 6 hours.
  • Implemented contract testing, automated load testing, and observability SLOs using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, raising platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% (10x reduction in error budget burn).
  • Led and grew a cross-functional team of 8 engineers across backend, frontend, and DevOps, scaling headcount from 4 to 8 with 85% retention; owned hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
  • Partnered with Product, Design, and Client Success leadership as primary technical decision-maker; translated business goals into technical roadmaps and drove build-vs-buy decisions on authentication, search, and AI tooling.
  • Introduced AI-assisted development workflows including automated code review and a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant using Graph (GraphRAG, Neo4J), increasing sprint throughput by 30% across two quarters.
  • Owned incident command and production support rotation; established runbooks, postmortem culture, and on-call SLOs, reducing weekend paging incidents by 70%.
  • Developed and optimized Algorithms using python libraries like Numpy and Pandas.
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Christoph P.

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ICT DevSecOps Engineer & Security Coordinator

Zug
Christoph P.

Last position:

ICT DevSecOps Engineer & Security Coordinator at Abraxas Informatik AG

  • Interface role with the SOC team; improved incident response time by 45% through structured escalation processes and proactive security monitoring.
  • Defined technical standards for a multi-tenant enterprise platform (10+ services), resulting in a 30% shorter onboarding time for new clients in the public sector.
  • Active knowledge transfer and mentoring of a 6-person team; increased team autonomy and established a sustainable engineering culture.
  • Reduced time to market by 50% by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and establishing self-service deployments.
  • Stack: GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Nexus, Harbor, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, Grafana, Python, PostgreSQL, Java, Spring Boot, Flyway, Quarkus, JBoss, Loki, Go, Kafka, Kustomize, MongoDB
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Robin O.

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Co-Founder & AI Solutions Architect

Winterthur
Robin O.

Last position:

Co-Founder & AI Solutions Architect at airdys

  • Product strategy, architecture, and technical co-direction
  • AI workshops, client onboarding and go-to-market activities
  • Design and implementation of AI architectures (LLMs, RAG, MCP, agents, voice, automation)
  • Hands-on development of prototypes and production-ready AI integrations
  • Consulting clients on AI adoption, workflows, and integration into existing infrastructure
  • Collaboration with co-founders on strategic direction
  • Collaboration in sales and customer acquisition

Tools and Technologies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Vercel AI SDK, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), MCP (Model Context Protocol), FastAgent, VAPI, n8n, make.com, LibreChat, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, Next.js, Vercel, Docker

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Gwang Jin K.

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Data Scientist / Applied AI, Automation & Data Systems Researcher

Zürich
Gwang Jin K.

Last position:

Data Scientist / Applied AI, Automation & Data Systems Researcher at Independent

  • Built and explored applied GenAI, RAG, GraphRAG, local LLM, agentic AI and document-intelligence prototypes for structured analysis, evidence extraction, semantic search, technical reasoning and decision-useful reporting
  • Developed private local-LLM workflows and AI system patterns focused on privacy, reproducibility, reviewability, low-cost inference and practical user control
  • Built reproducible Python/R workflows for data analysis, automation, API-driven tooling, validation logic, technical documentation and AI-assisted software development
  • Designed workflows around explicit assumptions, traceable inputs, reviewable outputs and failure-mode awareness rather than black-box “looks good” demonstrations
  • Supported RAHN AG in a chemical/regulatory environment with data extraction and processing around WERCS, a regulatory application for chemical product and compliance data
  • Explored complex application/database schemas and wrote nested SQL queries to extract information for mixture calculations, component relationships, regulatory rules and reporting logic
  • Continued hands-on development in Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Docker/Linux deployment patterns, REST/API workflows, error handling, technical writing and fast AI-assisted prototyping
  • Built technical writing and documentation workflows that turn complex systems into clear runbooks, checklists, decision notes and user-facing explanations
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Philipp S.

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Business Information Systems Specialist (IT Consultant, IT PM, PMO, Portfolio Manager)

Zürich
Philipp S.

Last position:

Equity Portfolio Manager - Digital Wealth Management at Interactive Brokers LLC

  • Solely responsible for two portfolios totaling USD 1 million with an average monthly performance of 2%
  • Responsible for the investment strategy, specializing in US equities and ETFs (exchanges: NASDAQ and NYSE)
  • Market, trend, data, and technical chart analysis
  • Risk management – diversification, daily/weekly risk mitigation measures (rebalancing) to ensure optimal portfolio profitability
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Ahmed R.

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AI & Automation Engineer

Küsnacht
Ahmed R.

Last position:

AI & Automation Engineer at Teosek GmbH

  • Build prototypes, expand AI skills, and practical application in a startup context.
  • Transition phase: further training in prompt engineering, APIs, AI, working on independent prototype projects, and collaborating at a friend's startup.
  • Technologies: LangChain, REST, Python, Java, JS, TS, Node.
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Peter S.

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Web Application Developer PHP / WordPress Plugin Development

Zürich
Peter S.

Last position:

Web Application Developer PHP / WordPress Plugin Development at Gemeinde Bauma

  • Analysis, consulting, and development of a WordPress application for the digital processing and delivery of the Bauma chronicle archive
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Jack S.

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Freelance - Fullstack Engineer

Zug
Jack S.

Last position:

Freelance - Fullstack Engineer at SMG Swiss Marketplace Group

  • Supported the team in merging two real estate platforms into a unified Vue.js-based solution
  • Developed a custom SSR microservice architecture deployed on AWS Lambdas
  • Designed and implemented a map drawing feature
  • Took ownership of migrating the microservice from Vue 2 to Vue 3
  • Built a scalable SSR microservice architecture using AWS Lambda
  • Developed and implemented a critical map drawing feature for real estate visualization
  • Successfully migrated the microservice from Vue 2 to Vue 3
  • Gained deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure, Datadog, Sentry, and Vite
  • Technologies: Vue.js, Node.js, Vite, AWS Lambda, Datadog, Sentry, JavaScript
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Matthias I.

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Fractional CTO (Principal Engineer / Technical Architect)

Zürich
Matthias I.

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Fractional CTO (Principal Engineer / Technical Architect)

  • Designed large-scale systems and APIs serving thousands of concurrent users.
  • Refactored a 650k-LOC monolith and led full AWS migration for stable performance.
  • Introduced SLO-based observability, improving reliability and recovery flow.
  • Optimised cloud and databases, achieving significant cost and latency reduction.
  • Delivered LLM, RAG, and document-automation pipelines adopted in production.
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Csaba K.

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ServiceNow Consultant

Zumikon
Csaba K.

Last position:

ServiceNow Consultant at DXC

  • Worked in mixed teams with several clients
  • Performed requirement engineering, proposal and time estimation
  • Developed ACLs, business rules, flows, workflows, catalog items, various scripts, UI actions, policies, scoped applications
  • Customized mobile apps: Now Agent and Now Mobile
  • Implemented integrations using the Integration Hub
  • Coordinated continuously with clients during development
  • Performed testing and helped clients with testing
  • Deployed to production and applied main version upgrades and patches
  • Managed CMDB, domain separation and asset management
  • Integrated between instances at different clients
  • Developed GlideScript: business rules, scripted REST endpoints, extension points, fix scripts, background scripts
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Beat Z.

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SAP Test Manager

Zürich
Beat Z.

Last position:

SAP Test Manager at E.ON Grid Solutions GmbH

  • Responsible for IT integration test and user acceptance test for SAP S/4 Hana and BDO BO Customer Financials Management
  • Led the test team (business testers and IT testers)
  • Resource planning and control within the test team
  • Created test concepts and test plans
  • Performed test risk analysis
  • Coordinated test execution and defect tracking
  • Ensured test progress
  • Generated and visualized reports
  • Summarized test reports and reported to management
  • Prepared and conducted user acceptance tests
  • Managed SIGMA and JIRA/Confluence at project level
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Ala L.

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VR/AR/ML Project Site Lead (contract by Experis)

Wallisellen
Ala L.

Last position:

VR/AR/ML Project Site Lead (contract by Experis) at Meta

  • Acted as project lead in different internal projects, including the development and implementation of innovative solutions based on machine learning, virtual and augmented reality with the aim of providing great user experience
  • Drove project planning, execution and reporting, designed risk mitigation and schedule adjustment plans to bring the projects on the green path
  • Directed the process optimization and conducted project reviews by being the liaison between engineering teams and executive stakeholders
  • Served as agile coach and led the scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective
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Ioannis K.

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Algorithms Development Expert, Research & Development

Wallisellen
Ioannis K.

Last position:

Algorithms Development Expert, Research & Development at Reishauer AG

  • Mathematical specification and definition, analysis and software development of the skiving cutter tool motion planning within the skiving machine for simultaneous and sequential gear flank processing
  • Twist-free topological manufacturing
  • Workpiece flank line modifications
  • Workpiece flank line and profile corrections
  • Workpiece tooth thickness deviations
  • Computer vision algorithms for automatic wear detection of the skiving cutter tool
  • Software development for corrections of the machine kinematics for the profile grinding product series, including twist-free grinding
  • Software development for corrections of the machine kinematics, quality measurement and evaluation for the slot grinding product series
  • Performance analysis and continuous improvement of internal design tools (RTDesign)
  • Tools used: C#, .NET, TeamCity, git, PostgreSQL, MySQL
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Balázs S.

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Owner

Uster
Balázs S.

Last position:

Owner at Schweighoffer GmbH

  • Business analysis and requirements engineering
  • Consulting technical mathematics and control theory
  • Selling outsourcing software development projects to companies
  • Project lead, controlling and automated testing
  • Software design and support
  • Developed control algorithm for a sensorless permanent magnet electric motor
  • Solved control engineering problems for customers

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Statistics of experts using MySQL

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

24 years

MySQL experts in Zurich have 24 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

2.5 years

MySQL experts in Zurich stay in a single position for 2.5 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

12

MySQL experts in Zurich have completed 12 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

MySQL experts in Zurich have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services

MySQL experts in Zurich are most in demand in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Professional Services.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

MySQL experts in Zurich earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Bachelor's degree or higher

82%

82% of MySQL experts in Zurich hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

71%

71% of MySQL experts in Zurich hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

12%

12% of MySQL experts in Zurich have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

3

MySQL experts in Zurich hold 3 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

English, German, French

MySQL experts in Zurich most often speak English, German, and French.

Speak two or more languages

100%

100% of MySQL experts in Zurich speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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11% of MySQL experts in Zurich charge less than €400 per day.
16% of MySQL experts in Zurich charge between €400 and €800 per day.
53% of MySQL experts in Zurich charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
21% of MySQL experts in Zurich charge €1200 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Zurich 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 Zurich using MySQL

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

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Daily rate avg. 908 €

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 880 €

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.

MySQL 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 (95%)
  • Banking and Finance (89%)
  • Professional Services (63%)
  • Media and Entertainment (47%)
  • Telecommunication (42%)
  • Retail (37%)
  • Education (32%)
  • Insurance (32%)

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

About the technology

What MySQL does

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system used to store, organize, and retrieve structured data. It supports transactional applications, customer portals, online shops, internal business software, content systems, and reporting services. Its SQL interface and broad hosting support make it a common choice for reliable data-backed products.

Applications and data models

MySQL specialists turn business requirements into clear schemas, relationships, indexes, constraints, and access rules. They create data structures that remain understandable as an application grows, while protecting consistency across orders, accounts, inventory, payments, and operational records.

  • Model relational data and migration paths
  • Design tables, views, stored procedures, and triggers
  • Connect applications through trusted database drivers
  • Prepare reporting and search-ready data flows

Ecosystem and tooling

The surrounding ecosystem includes InnoDB, replication, backups, command-line utilities, administration tools, and managed cloud database services. Strong specialists also work with SQL, database monitoring, schema migration frameworks, containers, and application stacks such as PHP, Java, Python, Node.js, and .NET. They understand how database choices affect the complete system.

When companies need help

Companies often bring in freelance expertise when a new product needs a sound data foundation, an existing database has become slow, or a migration carries operational risk. Zurich teams may need specialists who can collaborate remotely across international groups or join on-site workshops when architecture and business processes must be aligned closely.

  • Investigate slow queries and inefficient indexes
  • Plan upgrades, migrations, and replication changes
  • Review backup, recovery, and access procedures
  • Stabilize databases during launches or major releases

Performance and resilience

Effective MySQL work goes beyond writing queries. Professionals inspect execution plans, indexing strategy, transaction boundaries, locking behavior, connection handling, and workload patterns. They also establish backup verification, recovery procedures, failover options, monitoring, and capacity planning so the database remains dependable under changing demand.

What strong specialists deliver

A strong MySQL professional explains trade-offs in business terms and documents decisions clearly. They can distinguish an application problem from a database problem, test changes against realistic data, and make improvements without risking integrity. Look for hands-on experience with production incidents, controlled migrations, security reviews, and collaboration with application and infrastructure teams.

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Frequently asked questions

What clients ask us most about MySQL — answered in short.

MySQL is used to store and query structured data for websites, online stores, customer systems, financial workflows, and internal applications. It is particularly suitable when transactions, clear relationships, and dependable SQL access are central to the product.

MySQL and PostgreSQL are both capable relational database systems, but they differ in features, defaults, tooling, and operational preferences. The right choice depends on query complexity, data types, extension needs, existing application support, and the team’s ability to operate the system.

A strong MySQL specialist should understand SQL, data modeling, indexing, query plans, transactions, backups, and access control. Application integration, Linux, containers, cloud database services, monitoring, and migration tooling are also valuable depending on the project.

The required depth depends on the risk and workload. A straightforward schema or reporting task may need focused database expertise, while a high-volume application, complex migration, replication setup, or recovery plan calls for a professional with proven production experience.

MySQL work is often well suited to remote collaboration because specialists can review schemas, queries, logs, and deployment plans securely online. On-site sessions in Zurich can still help when teams need workshops, incident coordination, or close alignment with local business and application groups.

Ask how the specialist investigates slow queries, validates migrations, tests recovery, and handles changes to production data. A capable MySQL professional explains risks clearly, uses evidence such as execution plans and monitoring data, and leaves behind useful documentation.

MySQL can support a growing application when its schema, indexes, queries, connections, and operational processes are designed carefully. As usage changes, specialists may introduce read replicas, partitioning, caching, archiving, or workload separation where those measures fit the system.

Freelancers working with MySQL for Zurich-based teams should be comfortable documenting technical decisions and coordinating across remote and on-site settings. English is common in international projects, while German can help when discussions involve local stakeholders or business operations.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used MySQL in their recent projects is 113 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 908 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used MySQL in their recent projects, 82% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 71% hold at least a Master's degree, and 12% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used MySQL in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used MySQL in their recent projects are English (100%), German (95%), and French (37%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used MySQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (89%), and Professional Services (63%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used MySQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (89%), and Project Management (74%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used MySQL

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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