Objective-C Experts in Berlin
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Berlin, who have recently used Objective-C
Mathias V.
Last position:
Fullstack AI Engineer at Ammodia.com
Developed a custom Kotlin Multiplatform app with a Spring backend and AI features.
Kornél L.
Last position:
Computer Vision Algorithm Engineer (contract) at Sony R&D Center, Stuttgart Laboratory 1
- Conducted research and development in the field of large-scale 3D reconstruction
Benjamin F.
Last position:
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach at Freelance
Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.
Last projects:
Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.
Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.
Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.
Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.
Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:
Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.
Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.
Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.
Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.
Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:
Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.
Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.
Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.
Cristian P.
Last position:
iOS-Teamleiter at Qlaunch Gmbh
- Contributed to the architecture design process, leading to scalable and maintainable solutions for complex projects
- Improved app performance through code optimization and implementation of efficient algorithms
- Led a team of iOS developers to complete projects on time and achieve customer satisfaction
- Implemented core design plans into complete iOS app frameworks and delegated project components to corresponding team members
- Key project: City Guide ([link]
Dennis O.
Last position:
Lead Software Engineer at Heinemann
- Led a team of four developers in a comprehensive rewrite of the Heinemann iOS app, successfully navigating a highly undocumented software environment.
- Implemented a frontend-first approach by adopting the backend-for-frontend (BFF) pattern, enabling frontend developers to lead API specification development for enhanced alignment and efficiency.
Christopher M.
Last position:
Mobile & Full-Stack Engineer at Propstack GmbH
- Refactored the mobile app by reimplementing stores, models, API client, screens and components using Typescript
- Added performant on-device storage for stores as preparation for offline mode
- Integrated RNUILib to achieve a minimal and modern UI design quickly
- Implemented native packages to provide additional features such as displaying of caller IDs
- Planned feature development and UX improvements following initial refactoring and redesign
Thomas S.
Last position:
GEDISA mbH
- Development of various backends (PHP) in a microservice architecture with STRENGTHS
- Development of administration interfaces with Laravel Filament diligent consistent agile
- Integration of third-party providers via REST interfaces patient attention to detail motivating
Calin C.
Last position:
Gorillas
- Successfully migrated 99.9% of the users to the new app by automatically logging them in using the token retrieved from the old app.
- Facilitated more than 400k signups in the first 3 months after releasing the redesigned app by supporting phone, Apple, Google, and Facebook authentication methods implemented using Firebase.
- Helped more than 250k users successfully add their address by supporting search using Google Places and by selecting the exact location using Google Maps based on the service delivery zones.
- Skills: Firebase Auth, Google Places, Google Maps, Segment, Adjust, Braze, Rich Push Notifications
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Statistics of experts using Objective-C
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
15 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
2 years (Germany: 3.2 years)
Positions per freelancer
9 (Germany: 16)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Media and Entertainment
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
83% (Germany: 85%)
Master's degree or higher
33% (Germany: 50%)
Certifications per freelancer
2 (Germany: 1)
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 98%)
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Berlin 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 Berlin using Objective-C
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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Objective-C 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 (88%)
- Automotive (63%)
- Media and Entertainment (63%)
- Retail (63%)
- Food and Beverage (50%)
- Healthcare (38%)
- Transportation (38%)
- Aerospace and Defense (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Objective-C does
Objective-C is a compiled, object-oriented language built around C and dynamic messaging. It remains important in Apple software, especially in established macOS, iOS, and embedded codebases. Its runtime supports reflection, message forwarding, categories, protocols, and flexible object behavior.
Apple application work
Objective-C specialists maintain and extend applications built with Apple frameworks. Their work can cover native iPhone and iPad features, macOS utilities, shared libraries, SDK integrations, and components that must remain stable across operating system releases. They also help teams preserve business-critical products while newer modules move to Swift.
- Extend UIKit, AppKit, Foundation, and Core Data components
- Maintain Cocoa and Cocoa Touch application layers
- Integrate notifications, networking, persistence, and device services
- Prepare releases and troubleshoot production defects
Runtime and tooling
The ecosystem centers on Xcode, Apple SDKs, Clang, LLDB, Instruments, XCTest, and dependency managers such as CocoaPods and Carthage. Strong professionals understand memory management, ARC, blocks, delegates, protocols, KVO, and the Objective-C runtime. They can also work with mixed-language targets and modular build settings.
When companies need specialists
Freelance expertise is useful when an internal team inherits an older Apple product, faces difficult build or runtime issues, or needs a safe path from Objective-C to Swift. In Berlin, companies may also need professionals who can coordinate remotely across distributed teams while communicating clearly in English and, where required, German.
- Diagnose crashes, leaks, threading faults, and performance regressions
- Refactor tightly coupled code without disrupting releases
- Set up tests, CI workflows, signing, and repeatable builds
- Review migration plans for mixed Objective-C and Swift code
What good work looks like
Reliable specialists explain trade-offs before changing a mature codebase. They use small, testable steps, preserve public interfaces where needed, and document runtime behavior that is not obvious from the source. Their delivery includes readable code, useful tests, reproducible builds, and clear notes for the permanent team.
Choosing the right expertise
Assess experience with the specific Apple platforms, deployment constraints, and age of the codebase rather than language familiarity alone. Ask how the professional handles ARC boundaries, concurrency, binary dependencies, signing, and Swift interoperability. A practical review of a representative module or incident plan often reveals more than a generic technical discussion.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about Objective-C.
Objective-C is mainly used to maintain and extend established iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and embedded Apple applications. It is also common in frameworks, SDKs, libraries, and mixed-language products where existing components cannot be replaced safely.
Objective-C offers a mature runtime, dynamic messaging, and deep compatibility with older Apple code. Swift provides stronger compile-time safety and more modern syntax, but many companies still need Objective-C specialists to maintain existing systems and connect them with Swift modules.
A strong Objective-C professional should know Xcode, Apple SDKs, Foundation, UIKit or AppKit, debugging, testing, and release processes. Swift interoperability, Git, CI, dependency management, memory profiling, and app signing are also valuable for current projects.
The right level depends on the codebase, risk, and deliverable rather than a fixed tenure. A maintenance task may need focused knowledge of a particular framework, while a migration, crash investigation, or architecture review calls for broad experience with the runtime and build system.
Yes. Objective-C work is well suited to remote collaboration when repositories, build instructions, signing access, and test environments are documented. Teams in Berlin should agree on communication routines and whether English, German, or both are needed for product and technical discussions.
Keeping Objective-C is often sensible when the application is stable, heavily tested, or tied to mature libraries and interfaces. A gradual migration can reduce delivery risk, allowing selected modules to move to Swift while the existing product continues to ship.
Review how the professional explains memory ownership, runtime behavior, error handling, testing, and backwards compatibility. Look for small changes, clear documentation, reproducible builds, and evidence that performance or crash claims are supported by Instruments, logs, or tests.
Objective-C debugging often involves dynamic dispatch, nil messaging, swizzling, KVO, blocks, and interactions between managed and unmanaged resources. A capable specialist combines source-level investigation with runtime tools, crash logs, thread analysis, and memory diagnostics.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Objective-C in their recent projects is 90 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 719 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Objective-C in their recent projects, 83% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 33% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Objective-C in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Objective-C in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Objective-C in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Automotive (63%), and Media and Entertainment (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Objective-C in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (50%).
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