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Meet FRATCH Experts who have recently used Pascal
Alwin G.
Last position:
IT Interim Manager & AI Strategist
- AI product development: Design of an AI-supported GRC platform to automate compliance processes.
- AI expertise: Strategic deepening in Agentic AI and GenAI as a core asset for modern IT governance
- IT interim management and strategic consulting
Christian R
Last position:
Project Manager Outlook and Teams Rollout at BWI
- Gathering information
- Creating wave concepts for the rollout
- Coordinating employees
- Monitoring and steering measures
- Project management including analyses & reporting to the board
- Creating instructions and requirement specifications
- Training floorwalkers
- On-site rollout support
- VIP support
- Introducing SharePoint
Burhan Dinler
Last position:
Enterprise Architect & Solution Architect at DB Netz AG
With project PRIZMA, DB will modernize its infrastructure on the one hand, and develop a fail-safe IT landscape on the other hand, which can be restored quickly and securely in case of a disaster.
- Capture current architectures of existing systems as well as methodical consulting and development of target architectures
- Deepen and maintain the building plan / target IT landscape
- Implement technical architecture concepts & architecture descriptions
- Implement migration concepts for updating and further developing the platform and information systems
- Assess submitted improvement suggestions as part of the project
- Capability management: identify capability gaps, develop target visions, and support transformation planning within the enterprise architecture.
- Create a compatibility matrix of the components in use and compare dependencies of specific versions
- Create an IT concept for extending the platform with the following topics: hardware and software requirements, security, licensing, high availability, load balancing, backup & recovery, update strategy, monitoring integration, etc.
- Coordinate with business architects as well as technical architects from the cross-functional architecture area of the PRISMA program for the topics (backup, Active Directory, monitoring, Citrix, and business applications ...)
- Status meetings and alignment of project planning with the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager
- Advise the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager in identifying project risks
- Advise the System Architect Engineers in steering the implementation of the concept
- Implement the IT concept
- Document the infrastructure
Label: MS Project, LINUX, Windows, ORACLE, Java, REST, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, UML, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, AZURE, AWS, V-MODEL, Micro Service, VisualStudio, SAP S/4HANA, SCRUM(SAFE), ESB (TIBCO), Python, Innovator, LeanIX (TOGAF), Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation, ROBOT, SpringBoot
Benjamin Matschke
Last position:
Founder, system architect, and main developer at Institute for Artificial Study (IAS)
- Expert-supervised AI systems for scientific reasoning, model evaluation, and research workflows.
- Built the IAS Problem Solver, an orchestrated system for difficult mathematical reasoning; it achieved 84% in one submitted answer set on the Leipzig mathematics benchmark.
- Built a resumable state-machine pipeline for research-grade mathematics benchmark generation: source selection, LLM-agent-based phenomenon discovery, task synthesis, gold-answer and certificate generation and validation, probing, repair, human feedback, and quality gates, targeting tasks that are difficult, natural, verifiable, and cost-effective.
- Current work extends this into budget-aware AI research workflows for real scientific problems with expert review.
Tech stack: Python, OpenAI/OpenRouter-compatible APIs, embeddings, RAG, SQLite.
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
Pierre Gronau
Last position:
Ansible Automation, Windows Third Level Support at DB InfraGO AG
- PRISMA project
- Ansible automation
- Windows third-level support for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2013, Windows 2016, Windows 2019
Hendrik Wagner
Last position:
Software Test and Maintenance Support at Anton Paar ProveTec GmbH
- Add/create test specifications
- Conduct regression tests
- Conduct release tests
- Analyze Jira tickets
- Identify software defects and fix them with C#
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-WĂĽrttemberg
- 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
Alexandra Grözinger
Last position:
Test Coordinator Project GoDigital at Insurance company
Support of test management and consulting on replacing the existing core system for non-life insurance with a modern IT platform.
Planning and controlling test execution as well as test analysis.
Documentation of test results in JIRA/XRAY and defect management.
Creating and continuously updating checklists to ensure quality.
Creating Confluence pages to support test execution and its documentation.
Creating test completion reports after each test cycle.
Methods: process planning, status tracking, process optimization, process execution, process quality assurance.
Tools: MS Office, Outlook, JIRA, Confluence, Wiki.
Benefit: Support for test management in the preparation, execution and documentation of the different test cycles.
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.
Alexander Schulze
Last position:
AI Consultant for AI Voice Bot System at Rudolf Hörmann GmbH & Co.KG
- Consultant for system architecture, AI agents & integration, coach for data & process logic, Graph-RAG approaches, security and data protection.
- On-premise AI solutions with high compliance and performance requirements.
- Architecture decisions, operational setup, strategic prioritization & deployment.
- Technologies: LiveKit JS SDK, LiveKit Agents, Web Audio API, JS, AudioWorklet, Loki, vLLM, Zscaler, Docker, Neo4j, MySQL, Python.
- Models: GPT-OSS 20B, Whisper large v3 turbo, Qwen3-TTS.
Stefan Marx
Last position:
Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer
- Design, planning and execution of complex acceptance tests for a document exchange platform for the German justice authorities.
- Validation of decrypted and certificate-based message exchange via web platform, mobile app, and Java API.
- Documentation of test cases, execution steps, and test results.
- Technologies: Windows 11/10, Ubuntu, iOS, Android, Bash for Windows, Java 17, IntelliJ, Git, Jira, Confluence, Citrix Server, xJustiz standard implementation, specific justice software.
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)
Frank Doerries
Last position:
Project management, development and system integration for retrofit on a Uranus thermionic mass spectrometer at Forschungszentrum JĂĽlich
- Development of a retrofit concept, including qualification measures
- Development, installation and commissioning of the required hardware and software
- Development of a safety concept
- Execution and documentation of in-house verifications / qualification
- Initiation and implementation of measures in case of non-conformities
- Execution of CE conformity assessment procedures and CE marking
Carsten BĂĽche
Last position:
Test engineer at DAT (Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH)
- Conducted manual testing for claims creation, forwarding, repair cost calculation, parts selection and logging on the Gold.dat.de platform
- Automated key processes using ASKUI, including login, claim creation, calculations and parts selection
- Simulated user interactions (e.g., drag-and-drop) with ASKUI
- Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for early error detection
- Executed over 50 test scenarios and identified critical defects
- Reduced test time by 50% through automation
- Improved platform quality and user experience
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Statistics of experts using Pascal
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
30 years
Position duration
2.3 years
Positions per freelancer
20
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
52%
Doctorate
10%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
97%
Based on our profile pool as of 6 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts using Pascal
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 6 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
Pascal in practice Pascal is used for business software, desktop tools, embedded systems, and long-lived internal applications. It still appears in systems that need clear structure, careful typing, and stable maintenance. Many teams also use Object Pascal through Delphi or Free Pascal.
What specialists deliver Pascal specialists often step into codebases that must stay reliable while still changing. Typical work includes feature updates, bug fixing, test coverage, refactoring, and moving older Turbo Pascal or Delphi code toward a cleaner structure.
Common project types
- Maintaining legacy business applications
- Updating Delphi forms, units, and libraries
- Porting code to Free Pascal or newer Delphi versions
- Integrating databases, file formats, and device interfaces
- Stabilizing builds, tests, and release processes
Tooling and ecosystem Pascal work often centers on Delphi, Free Pascal, Lazarus, and Object Pascal libraries. Strong specialists understand compiler differences, package management, debugging, and the parts of the codebase that depend on platform-specific APIs. They also know when to keep compatibility and when to simplify.
When to bring in freelance help Companies usually need outside expertise when an in-house team lacks time for old code, the original authors are gone, or a release depends on risky changes. Freelancers are also useful when you need a short, focused review of a stubborn bug, a migration plan, or a clean handover for a critical Pascal system.
What strong professionals do well
- Read unfamiliar Pascal code quickly
- Keep behavior stable while changing internals
- Work across Delphi and Free Pascal differences
- Improve readability without breaking compatibility
- Explain trade-offs clearly to the team
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about Pascal.
Pascal is still used for desktop applications, internal business systems, embedded software, and older products that remain important to daily operations. In many teams, it also means Object Pascal in Delphi or Free Pascal codebases that need steady maintenance rather than a full rewrite.
Pascal is the language family name, while Delphi and Free Pascal are common ecosystems people use with it. Object Pascal extends the language for larger application work, and Delphi adds a full commercial toolchain. Free Pascal is often chosen for portability and for keeping older Pascal code alive.
A strong Pascal freelancer should be able to read older code, trace bugs through units and forms, and make safe changes without breaking behavior. They should also understand build settings, compiler quirks, and the libraries or APIs the application depends on.
The most useful adjacent skills are Delphi, Free Pascal, Lazarus, database access, Windows APIs, testing, and source control. For older systems, knowledge of legacy data formats and migration work is often just as important as language syntax.
Pascal projects often need less general programming experience than deep codebase familiarity. A smaller bug fix can be handled quickly by a specialist who knows the ecosystem, while a migration or modernization effort needs someone who has already worked through compatibility issues and release risk.
Pascal work is often remote-friendly because most tasks involve source code, build steps, and testing. On-site collaboration can help when the system is tied to local hardware, an older workstation setup, or business users who can explain the workflow in person.
With Pascal, quality shows up in stable behavior, readable units, predictable builds, and tests that cover the risky paths. Good specialists leave the code easier to navigate, document the changes clearly, and avoid unnecessary rewrites when a smaller fix is safer.
Pascal can still be a good choice when a team already has a strong Delphi or Free Pascal setup, needs fast native applications, or wants to keep consistency with existing systems. For brand-new products, the decision depends on the team’s tooling, target platforms, and long-term maintenance plan.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Pascal in their recent projects is 100 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 799 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used Pascal in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 52% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used Pascal in their recent projects have 30 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used Pascal in their recent projects are German (99%), English (97%), and French (33%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used Pascal in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Manufacturing (67%), and Automotive (55%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Pascal in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (85%), and Project Management (79%).
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