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Max R.
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer and Technical Advisor (Freelancer) at dialpad
Serving as AI technical advisor to Dialpad's Telephony Engineering division while building AI products hands-on. Currently developing MCP-based tooling for AI text and voice agents: agent authoring, integrations and adoption of existing agents, shared authentication and API contracts, and durable workflow state. This includes text and voice tests that evaluate agent behavior, latency and task completion.
In parallel, helping Dialpad's engineers adopt QualityLayer and use Claude Code and Codex effectively. This ongoing work covers context management for large codebases, reusable plan-implement-test-review workflows connected to CI/CD, playbooks, hands-on workshops, labs and pair programming.
Technologies: AI Agent Products (Text & Voice Agents, MCP, LLMs, Python, TypeScript), Agent Tooling (Authoring, Integrations, OAuth, Durable State), Quality & Evaluation (Text & Voice Tests, Evals, Regression, Traces), Agentic Engineering (Claude Code, Codex, QualityLayer, Hooks, Prompts), Context Engineering (RAG, Vector Stores, Codebase Embeddings), Software Delivery (CI/CD Integration, Agentic Loops, PR Automation), Enablement & Coaching (Workshops, Hands-On Labs, Pair Programming)
Fadi S.
Last position:
AI-Engineer at Recruitment Agency
- Design, development, and productive rollout of an Enterprise HR Copilot based on Microsoft Copilot Studio to automate internal HR processes
- Development of an AI-supported assistant for answering employee inquiries based on a SharePoint knowledge base and internal company HR documentation
- Integration of the Copilot into Microsoft Teams, including welcome logic, user guidance, and role-based routing
- Automation of HR processes and approval workflows with Microsoft Power Automate to reduce manual processing steps
- Development of realistic HR documents and response templates with Azure OpenAI, taking business requirements and consistent company policies into account
- Implementation of prompt strategies, knowledge management, and response optimization to improve response quality and user acceptance
- Close collaboration with business departments to analyze requirements and integrate the AI solution into existing company processes
Technologies:
Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Teams, Azure OpenAI, SharePoint, Power Automate, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Prompt Engineering, Workflow Automation
Patrick L.
Last position:
Senior GenAI Fullstack Developer at SBH (Schulbau Hamburg)
Remote freelance role focused on Agentic AI strategy, secure application patterns, and reusable agentic workflows for a government agency.
- Development and implementation of an open-source Agentic AI strategy for a government agency, with a focus on GDPR, security, and self-hosted solutions
- Development of reusable agentic workflows and business applications that enable non-technical employees to solve business problems independently
- Implementation of nine business applications with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Azure PostgreSQL integration on Hetzner Linux servers
Techstack: Python, Streamlit, Anthropic SDK (Claude), Azure, Linux, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Angular
Gabin Maxime N.
Last position:
Multi-Agent R&D Pipeline (3 Custom Agents) at Independent Project
Claude Code subagents, MCP, Pydantic V2, pytest, bandit
Designed and shipped 3 specialized agents that hand work down a line: a research agent writes a cited implementation spec, a coding agent builds the modular code and its tests, a review agent ranks findings by severity and applies the fixes. Each handoff is a structured document, so no stage depends on another agent's context window.
Connected the research agent to an academic-research MCP server (Semantic Scholar, ArXiv, Hugging Face Hub, citation snowballing) so every reference traces to a tool result rather than the model. Gated commits behind ruff, mypy, pytest and bandit, required human sign-off before installs and commits, and persisted session state on disk so long runs survive a context reset.
Michael B.
Last position:
Product Analytics Consultant - Trust & Safety at Kleinanzeigen
- Detecting fraud patterns and implementing effective anti-fraud rules while maintaining acceptable false positive rates to ensure a balance between safety and a frictionless user experience
- Supporting ideation and roll-out of new trust and safety features to the platform to block fraudulent activity and increase user awareness for fraud
- Supporting Product, Development and Customer Support with BI reports and further guidance to identify and fight fraud and policy violations
Matthias S.
Last position:
Technology Lead & Co-Founder at LegalMind GmbH
- Redesign of legal operations: standardised workflows reducing routine effort by up to 80%, with source citation, hallucination check as quality gate, role model, logging and audit trail.
- Compliance-by-design operating model (EU AI Act readiness, GDPR, eIDAS) with documented, releasable process steps.
- Roadmap, sprint planning and release management for an agentic RAG platform with counsel-in-the-loop approval, audit trail and German hosting.
- EU AI Act readiness, GDPR and eIDAS requirements managed as first-class project deliverables; go-to-market for two customer verticals.
Michael N.
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer | Forward Deployed Engineer at Tiefbau
- Development of an AI-powered project organization tool for a civil engineering company that intelligently links project, task, tender, schedule, and document data through a knowledge graph.
- Implementation of AI features for document analysis, information extraction, context-based assistance, and voice-based data capture based on Microsoft Azure AI, reducing administrative effort, making information available faster, and supporting project teams in decision-making.
- Tech stack: Python, React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Claude Code, Codex, Graphify, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Entra ID, Docker, Git, CI/CD.
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
Ramazan C.
Last position:
Fullstack-/DevOps Engineer at BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office)
Development and further development of an internal platform for managing and providing technical resources, virtual machines, and infrastructure services. The platform supports self-service processes and covers functions that are conceptually comparable to cloud management solutions like Azure or AWS.
- Responsible involvement in the design, development, and implementation of new backend and frontend features
- Hands-on development with Java, Spring Boot, Python, and Angular
- Implementation of REST interfaces, business logic, validations, and integrations into existing system landscapes
- Further development of modern web interfaces with Angular, including connection to backend services
- Participation in architecture and design decisions within the team, especially with regard to scalability, maintainability, and clean interfaces
- Containerization and deployment of applications with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Support with CI/CD processes and deployment to Kubernetes-based environments
- Work in the environment of vSphere, Broadcom, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Maven, npm, and NuGet
- Close collaboration with developers, business teams, DevOps, and other technical stakeholders
- Analysis of technical requirements, deriving suitable solutions, and independent implementation in an agile team
- Use of GitHub Copilot to support code generation, refactoring, test case creation, and technical documentation
Methods/ tools/ technologies: Languages & frameworks: Java (21), Spring Boot (4.x), Python, Angular, Robot Framework, Kubernetes, Helm Persistence: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hibernate, Liquibase Architecture & communication: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Apache Kafka, OpenAPI, Microservices, Event Driven, Domain Driven Design Cloud & infrastructure: Terraform, Docker, Rancher, Helm, Ansible Security: OAuth2, MS (Entra ID), web security, Keycloak (extensions for detailed group rights) DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Maven, Gradle, Grafana, Prometheus, Git, GitHub Copilot Testing & QM: JUnit, Robot Framework, automated component and integration tests, E2E tests with Playwright, Testcontainers, EasyMock Methodology & approach: Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, Clean Code
Karin A.
Last position:
AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German at Lilt
- Task Engineering: Evaluating Coding Agents.
- Asset Creation: Building realistic task environments using datasets and files in German. Crucially, these assets must remain in the target language to genuinely measure multilingual handling.
- Prompting & Translation: finding failure points where AI does not work, in German.
- Implementation & Verification: Supporting the development of robust solutions (reference implementations) and write highly reliable, deterministic verifier scripts (using rubric-based judging only when strictly necessary).
- Calibration & Execution: Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty (Easy to Very Hard) using standard Terminal-Bench run configurations against various model tiers (Haiku, Opus).
- Quality Assurance: Participation in a rigorous, 4-layer human quality control process (creation, human review, calibration review, and audit) alongside automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity.
- Linguistic Review: Reviewing AI benchmark tasks across Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Czech and Turkish.
Christine T.
Last position:
Communications Consulting at Storytrend
Most mid-sized companies already have their numbers. What is missing is the translation: a dashboard with forty tiles does not answer a single question that is actually asked in management.
Analysis
- Evaluation of existing data with Python and SQL
- Checking data quality and methodology before making a statement
- The result is an analysis that leads toward a concrete decision
Preparation
- Reports in Power BI and Tableau
- Interactive calculators and visualizations on the web
- Presentations and specialist texts for customers, sales and the public
- Analysis and communication from one source — that
Matthias S.
Last position:
Software Developer and Consultant at CLADE GmbH
- Analysis of the existing CAN communication between microcontrollers
- Analysis of the sensors used and the measured values collected
- Planning the CAN messages for transmitting the measured values
- Iterative adjustment of the microcontroller code to the new CAN messages
- Cross-compilation from x64 to arm64
Ashwin P.
Last position:
Freelance Data Scientist at Mercor Intelligence
- Architected and deployed end-to-end machine learning pipelines across classification and prediction datasets, ensuring robustness and reproducibility through MLOps best practices.
- Contributed directly to LLM model output accuracy improvement by designing and engineering specialised prompts grounded in end-to-end ML and SciML pipeline logic.
- Developed training data for large language models by formulating coding problems that models could not resolve and subsequently documenting the correct solutions.
Torsten F.
Last position:
Data Analyst, Requirements Manager at Isabellenhütte Heusler GmbH
Analysis of the existing reporting platform, including processes and governance topics, with stakeholders from Sales and Marketing.
Detailed analysis and evaluation of customer-defined requirements for existing reporting and new dashboards to be established.
Support for stakeholders in managing sales processes and identifying KPI trends at an early stage.
Use of Microsoft Power BI as the central analysis and reporting platform.
Development of a proposal for the required further development of processes and the Power BI platform.
Documentation of AS-IS business processes and derivation of company-wide KPIs, including coordination with stakeholders.
Analysis and assessment of the customer's Power BI platform.
Analysis of processes and data governance.
Documentation of AS-IS business processes.
Development of recommendations for further developing processes and the reporting platform.
Design and implementation of dashboards in Power BI.
Development of company-wide KPIs and coordination with stakeholders.
Microsoft Power BI.
Data analytics.
KPI definition and reporting.
Dashboard design and data visualization.
Stakeholder management and requirements management.
Gilad G.
Last position:
European Strategy Atlas – Independent Analytics & Decision-Support Project at Independent Project
Designed and built an end-to-end interactive decision-support application using public European data across 27 EU countries and multiple strategic dimensions. Developed a structured analytical methodology for comparing countries, identifying patterns and trade-offs, and exploring strategic choices rather than presenting static dashboards. Translated complex multidimensional data into guided interactive exploration and learning workflows for non-specialist users. Built the application end-to-end using Python and Streamlit, with AI-assisted development and Git-based version control. Developed the project independently from problem framing and data analysis through methodology, UX logic, implementation and deployment.
Tools: Python, Streamlit, Git, AI-assisted development
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Statistics of experts using pandas
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Experience
12 years

Position duration
2.7 years

Positions per freelancer
8

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Top industries
Information Technology, Education, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Research and Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
98%
Master's degree or higher
80%
Doctorate
17%

Certifications per freelancer
2

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
99%
Based on our profile pool as of 16 Oct 2026.
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pandas experts industry focus
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- Information Technology (76%)
- Education (49%)
- Banking and Finance (32%)
- Automotive (30%)
- Healthcare (30%)
- Manufacturing (29%)
- Professional Services (28%)
- Retail (26%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
DataFrames and analysis
pandas is an open-source Python library for working with structured data. Its core objects, DataFrame and Series, support filtering, joining, reshaping, grouping, time-series analysis, and descriptive statistics. Companies use it to turn raw exports, database extracts, and API responses into trustworthy datasets for analysis and reporting.
Common deliverables
pandas specialists often contribute to:
- Data cleaning pipelines that handle missing, duplicated, or inconsistent values
- Exploratory analysis for product, finance, operations, and marketing teams
- Reusable transformations for CSV, Excel, JSON, Parquet, and SQL data
- Feature preparation for machine learning models
- Automated reports, validation checks, and analytical datasets
Python ecosystem
pandas works closely with NumPy for numerical operations and with Jupyter for interactive analysis. Strong professionals also use Matplotlib, Seaborn, or Plotly for visual exploration, while scikit-learn supports modeling workflows. PyArrow, Polars, Dask, and DuckDB may complement pandas when columnar formats, larger datasets, or faster local queries matter.
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance pandas expertise when a recurring spreadsheet process needs to become reliable code, when source data has inconsistent schemas, or when analysts need a maintainable workflow. Specialist support is also useful during migrations from notebooks to scheduled jobs, integrations with warehouses, and audits of data quality or transformation logic.
Production considerations
Good pandas work is more than a notebook that runs once. Professionals define clear inputs and outputs, preserve data types, validate assumptions, manage memory, and make transformations testable. They understand when vectorized operations are preferable to row-wise loops and when a database, Polars, or a distributed tool is a better fit.
Choosing a specialist
Look for someone who can explain the data model, document business rules, and show how results are verified. Relevant experience may include SQL, APIs, Git, testing, orchestration, cloud storage, and deployment practices. Ask how they would handle schema changes, large files, time zones, missing values, and reproducibility before agreeing on a delivery plan.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with pandas? These answers cover the essentials.
pandas is used to load, clean, combine, transform, and analyze structured data in Python. Typical projects include financial reporting, customer analysis, operational dashboards, forecasting preparation, and machine learning data preparation.
pandas provides programmable, repeatable data transformations that are easier to test and version than manual spreadsheet work. SQL remains strong for filtering and aggregating data inside a database, while pandas is useful when analysis combines files, APIs, database results, and Python-based logic.
A strong pandas professional can assess whether the dataset and workflow fit the library before recommending an alternative. Polars can suit performance-focused, columnar workloads, while Dask helps distribute operations; pandas is often the simpler choice for in-memory analysis and broad Python compatibility.
A capable pandas specialist usually understands Python, SQL, data modeling, and Git. Depending on the assignment, useful adjacent skills include NumPy, Jupyter, PyArrow, cloud storage, orchestration, testing, visualization, and machine learning libraries.
The right pandas professional depends on the risk and complexity of the work, not just the size of the dataset. A short cleanup may need focused data-wrangling ability, while a production pipeline calls for stronger skills in testing, performance, deployment, and documentation.
Yes. pandas work is well suited to remote collaboration when the team shares clear data definitions, repository access, sample inputs, and acceptance checks. Regular reviews of notebooks, pull requests, and data outputs help replace informal on-site handoffs.
Review whether the pandas solution is readable, reproducible, and protected against bad inputs. Ask for validation rules, tests, documented assumptions, sensible handling of missing values, and evidence that the output matches an independently checked result.
A production-ready pandas workflow has controlled inputs, explicit schemas, logging, validation, and a repeatable execution path. It should also address memory use, failure handling, data privacy, dependency management, and monitoring rather than relying only on a successful notebook run.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used pandas in their recent projects is 83 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 660 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used pandas in their recent projects, 98% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 80% hold at least a Master's degree, and 17% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used pandas in their recent projects have 12 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used pandas in their recent projects are English (99%), German (98%), and French (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used pandas in their recent projects are Information Technology (76%), Education (49%), and Banking and Finance (32%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used pandas in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Product Development (74%), and Business Intelligence (68%).
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