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Alwin G.
Last position:
IT Interim Manager & AI Strategist
- Founder of CheironX: AI-supported GRC management (ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz, TISAX, DORA)
- Strategic focus on Agentic AI and GenAI for modern IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Management
- IT interim management and strategic consulting
Klaus K.
Last position:
HCL Notes Banking Support, Domino Administration / Migration / Operations at Atruvia / HCL International
Description of duties “Atruvia / HCL International” Role: HCL Notes Banking Support, Domino Administration / Migration / Operations Operations, administration and technical support of the HCL Notes/Domino environment in the Atruvia banking environment on behalf of HCL. As part of an international support team, the focus was on second- and third-level support as well as the processing, management and monitoring of SLA tickets in categories 1, 2 and 3. Duties included the technical analysis and resolution of incidents in the Notes/Domino environment, system administration, and the development and modification of Lotus Notes /Domino applications and LotusScript agents when a programming solution was required. Another focus was ticket dispatching: analysing and assessing incoming tickets, assigning them to the responsible departments and specialist teams, and subsequently coordinating and tracking processing within the agreed SLA periods. There was also direct communication and coordination with subject-matter experts, departments and end customers of the connected banks. In particular, when language or technical communication problems arose within the international support team, German-language customer communication was handled and mediation between customers and technical specialists was provided. Objective Ensuring stable and reliable operation of the HCL Notes/Domino landscape in the Atruvia banking environment and the timely processing of business-critical support cases in line with the agreed Service Level Agreements. Incidents were to be analysed as early as possible and either resolved directly through administrative measures or suitable LotusScript/Notes solutions, or forwarded specifically to the responsible specialist teams. As of: 25.09.2026 (Version 2.10 LITE) including project times Page: 3 of 32 SPO-SOFT EDV Beratung, Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Kano, Tel.: +494532-2767682, Mail: [email], [link] At the same time, qualified preliminary analysis and targeted ticket dispatching were intended to ensure that every ticket reached the technically and professionally responsible department immediately and that unnecessary transfers, processing times and associated costs were reduced. Result Operational Notes/Domino support for the banks served was reliably ensured throughout the entire project period. SLA-relevant tickets were systematically analysed, prioritised, assigned to the responsible departments and tracked through to resolution. Some incidents were resolved directly through administration, technical error analysis and the development of suitable LotusScript agents and modifications to Notes/Domino applications. By directing tickets specifically to the relevant expert and specialist teams, incorrect assignments and unnecessary processing loops were reduced and compliance with the agreed SLA times was supported. Direct communication with the banks and mediation between German-speaking end customers and the international support team also contributed to efficient problem resolution and high customer satisfaction.
Christian R.
Last position:
Project Manager, Outlook and Teams Rollout at BWI
- Gathering information
- Creating rollout wave concepts
- Coordinating employees
- Monitoring and managing activities
- Project management including analysis and reporting to the board
- Creating instructions and specifications
- Training floorwalkers
- Supporting the rollout on site
- VIP support
- Introducing SharePoint
Minh D.
Last position:
Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager at Finance and Insurance
Introduction of 5 different process applications for different teams
Release planning: scope and time management
Resource/capacity planning
Conducting Sprint Planning / retrospectives
Increment planning (several sprints)
Preparation of Steering Committee meetings / reporting to the Board
Coordination / alignment with external suppliers / deliveries
Resource planning for multiple projects
Coordination with business department and development team
Identification of best practices with IBM BAW
Cost control and planning for the project team and external service providers
Collection of KPIs using LogScale
Analysis of application errors with LogScale / Queries
User Story definitions / coordination of requirements with the business department and development team
Testing and defect tracking
UI/UX design of applications
Preparation and moderation of Brown-Paper workshops
Test concept, test data, test organization, test execution
Collection of team velocity / metrics
Test execution
Script for automated testing
Test organization with business department and IT
Recording and prioritization of defects
Establishment and operation of the application
Establishment of application monitoring with LogScale Dashboards
Checking health endpoints with PowerShell
Post Mortem analysis
Establishment of Incident Management
Establishment of Problem Management
Analysis of errors using LogScale Queries and Dashboard
Pre-processing of data for AI
Evaluation using AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG
Installation of runtime environments for LLMs (Large Language Model)
Evaluation of various LLMs
Installation of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and integration with LLM
Extraction of unstructured data with LLM and RAG
Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), Websphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale (formerly Humio), Swagger, Powershell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber
Reimar G.
Last position:
Freelance IT Lecturer, Project Manager and Technical Editor at Self-employed
- Delivered technical documentation and managed projects in electrical engineering, electronics, IT, automation and solar technology
- Served as sales representative
- Project manager and project engineer in renewable energy, electrical engineering, electronics and automation technology
- Produced technical documentation for clients including NRM Netzdienste GmbH (Frankfurt am Main), Salzgitter Flachstahl warm rolling mills, benthin GmbH and others
Burhan D.
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
Klaus H.
Last position:
Insurance software development at Generali Versicherung Schweiz
- Design update for quotation software (Delphi) for Generali insurance agents
- Expansion of form functionality with dynamic form generation in 4 languages
Benjamin M.
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 K.
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 G.
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
Frank A.
Last position:
Business Analysis, Process Optimization, Requirements Engineering, Documentation, Training, Support at Private sector, small businesses, collaborations
- Restructuring of the network architecture/topology followed by installation, setup and testing of the network at a small business.
- Resolution of server (permissions and roles) and connection problems (WAN, (V)LAN, WLAN).
- Infrastructure support and maintenance.
- Creation of documents such as manuals, architecture and design documents.
- Revision of manuals and technical documents as well as creation of VBA macros.
- Use of AI and basic prompting as well as formulation of AI requests.
- Adaptation of workflows based on legal requirements and optimization of existing workflows.
- Delivery of training and workshops for adaptations, new features and changed workflows.
- Modeling basis: BPMN.
- System environment: MS Office 2019/365, Win10/11, Teams, Netgear (Switch), QNAP, Synology (NAS), Linux (Ubuntu).
Stephan M.
Last position:
Product Owner at Self-employed
- Industry: Health Care/ IT
- Tools: Internet, telephone, email, Confluence, Azure DevOps, DISweb, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, FHIR
- Requirements engineering for implementing the e-prescription in an existing PVS and a web-based dialysis monitoring system
- Implementation of the archive and exchange interface of the KBV
- Creation and maintenance of user stories and backlog maintenance
- Stakeholder management and support for developers in implementing the user stories
- Reporting to management and conducting refinements
Stefan K.
Last position:
C# .NET/WPF Developer at Hessische Zentrale für Datenverarbeitung
- Redevelopment of outdated software used in Hessian schools in C# .NET/WPF
- Understanding and analysis of old Delphi and Visual Basic 6 source code
- Use of Visual Studio 2022 as IDE
- Team collaboration through pull requests and version control with Git/SourceTree
- Project management with proprietary wiki software and Open Project
- TechStack: C#, .NET 8.0, WPF, Visual Studio 22, Delphi, Visual Basic 6, LDAP, Active Directory, FTP, SMB, Git, SourceTree
- Workflow: pull requests, Open Project, weeklies, weekly meetings, dynamic communication
Christoph N.
Last position:
Project Manager at Zentraler Beitragsservice
- The goal of the project is to build a Greenfield FailSafe data center (FSRZ) as an emergency measure in accordance with BSI 200/4 against a cyberattack.
- Recovery of a project that had been running for several years. Re-initialization of the project: adjustment of the project organization, initiation of regular meetings, establishment of project controlling and project reporting, introduction of project risk management and consolidation of project documentation. Establishment of project governance and introduction of decision-making structures based on decision papers. Definition of deliverables and derivation of phase plans and the project plan. Personnel and resource planning. Coordination with “neighboring projects”, initiation of concept development and implementation. Management of the project with 8 subprojects and PMO. Budget planning and controlling (14,8 Mio). Support and coaching of the subprojects in their methodological approach. Coordination with suppliers and support of EU tenders. Coordination and processing of change requests. Coordination with line management regarding the economically viable operation of the FSRZ. Technical support for IT architecture in the areas of zOS, Windows and Linux, networking and IT security, for designing interim operations and extended regular operations for the FSRZ, planning emergency processes and emergency communication internally and externally.
Alexandra G.
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.
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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, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
87%
Master's degree or higher
56%
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 16 Oct 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 16 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Pascal 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 (92%)
- Manufacturing (66%)
- Banking and Finance (55%)
- Automotive (54%)
- Government and Administration (45%)
- Healthcare (44%)
- Telecommunication (42%)
- Professional Services (41%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Pascal foundations
Pascal is a structured programming language designed for clear, disciplined software development. Its readable syntax, strong typing and modular design support applications that need predictable behavior and maintainable code. Modern Pascal work commonly uses Object Pascal, especially through Delphi and Free Pascal.
Applications and systems
Pascal remains present in business software, industrial tools, education systems and long-running desktop applications. Teams use it for Windows interfaces, data-entry systems, reporting tools, device utilities and specialized software that must continue operating reliably over time.
- Desktop applications with rich graphical interfaces
- Database-backed business software
- Industrial and laboratory control tools
- Utilities that communicate with devices or services
- Maintenance and modernization of established codebases
Delphi ecosystem
Delphi is the most visible commercial environment for Object Pascal. Its ecosystem includes the VCL and FireMonkey frameworks, RAD Studio, database components, third-party controls and libraries for networking, reporting and integrations. Free Pascal and Lazarus provide an open-source route for cross-platform Pascal projects.
Project expertise
Companies bring in freelance Pascal expertise when a key specialist is unavailable, an inherited application needs careful changes or a desktop product must connect with newer services. Typical work includes refactoring legacy units, upgrading Delphi versions, replacing outdated components, improving database access and exposing business functions through APIs.
- Review unfamiliar Pascal or Delphi source code
- Stabilize builds, deployments and dependencies
- Migrate database layers or third-party components
- Add REST, messaging or cloud service integrations
- Document systems that depend on specialist knowledge
Strong professionals
Strong Pascal professionals understand both language fundamentals and the environment around the application. They can trace memory ownership, manage forms and components, work with threading and explain database transactions clearly. They also distinguish safe modernization from changes that could disrupt a critical legacy workflow.
Choosing the right specialist
Look for experience with the exact Pascal dialect, IDE, framework and operating system used by the project. Ask for examples of comparable maintenance, migration or integration work, then discuss testing, source control, release procedures and documentation. A practical review of the codebase is often more useful than a generic language assessment.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about Pascal.
Pascal is used for desktop business applications, industrial utilities, educational software and systems that require clear, stable code. Object Pascal applications built with Delphi are especially common in established Windows environments.
Pascal emphasizes readable structure and strong compile-time checks, while C# and Java offer broader mainstream ecosystems for new enterprise services. C++ provides lower-level control and a larger systems ecosystem. The best choice depends on the existing codebase, target platform and available tooling.
A strong Object Pascal specialist may also work with Delphi or Lazarus, SQL databases, Windows APIs, REST services, messaging and source-control workflows. Knowledge of VCL, FireMonkey, testing and deployment is valuable when maintaining a complete application rather than isolated units.
Pascal work may be straightforward when the codebase is small and well documented, but legacy systems often require careful investigation. Choose a professional who has handled the relevant Delphi version, components, database layer and release process instead of judging only by familiarity with the language.
Delphi and Pascal projects can be handled remotely when repositories, build environments and test data are accessible. Clear documentation, regular technical reviews and a reproducible development setup matter more than physical location, especially when the application depends on older tools or hardware.
Pascal expertise is useful when a key maintainer is unavailable, a Delphi application needs modernization or an integration is blocked by unfamiliar code. A freelance specialist can assess technical risk, deliver a focused change and document the system for the internal team.
Ask how the professional approaches an unfamiliar Object Pascal codebase, manages dependencies and tests changes around forms, threads and database transactions. Review code clarity, error handling, version-control practices and documentation, not only whether the feature works in one local environment.
Free Pascal can be a practical choice for open-source and cross-platform work, especially when paired with Lazarus. Delphi offers a mature commercial toolchain and established component ecosystem. Migration depends on framework usage, third-party libraries, platform requirements and compatibility constraints.
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, 87% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 56% 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 (92%), Manufacturing (66%), and Banking and Finance (55%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Pascal in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (84%), and Project Management (80%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Pascal
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