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Timo Bakenecker

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Freelancer (self-employed)

Borken
Timo Bakenecker

Last position:

Freelancer (self-employed) at enorin GmbH

  • Mendix low-code development / project management
  • Managing external resources
  • Customer and user management, roles
  • Master data entry
  • Quote preparation
  • Material costing
  • Workflows
  • Basic CRM functions
  • API interfaces (email, SMS, AI chatbot)
  • PDF API (.NET development using Aspose.PDF)
  • Stakeholder management (dev teams, enorin team, test client)
  • Risk management (backend access & sizing, role concepts)
  • Testing and staff training
  • Creating epics and stories in Confluence
  • Jira Scrum planning and management
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Hooman Behmanesh

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Fullstack Developer

Cologne
Hooman Behmanesh

Last position:

Fullstack Developer at Möbel Roller GmbH

  • Further development of the existing e-commerce platform based on SAP Commerce (Hybris) to meet the growing demands of digital commerce.
  • Ensuring the scalability and performance of the backend, so the platform remained stable and efficient even under heavy user load.
  • Development and integration of new OCC REST APIs and services for modular extensions and flexible adjustments, to implement new features quickly.
  • Optimization of data flows and interfaces, which significantly improved platform efficiency and system performance.
  • Ensuring a maintainable and scalable code base by using Clean Code principles, proven design patterns, and a future-proof architecture.
  • Reduction of errors through extensive testing with JUnit, Mockito, and load tests with Gatling, supported by the introduction of automated test processes.
  • Improved system performance through targeted refactoring measures and efficient database queries, especially to handle peak loads.
  • Use of modern cloud and monitoring tools such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Grafana to ensure a stable and monitored infrastructure.
  • Clear improvement in efficiency, scalability, and reliability of the platform, which now meets the demands of a dynamic and growing e-commerce market.
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Niklas Witzel

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Senior IT Consultant

Eichenzell
Niklas Witzel

Last position:

AI Engineer at Tensora GmbH

  • Designed and developed a multi-tenant SaaS platform enabling organizations to build their own knowledge bases and chat with brand-customized AI assistants (white-label approach with dynamic branding per organization).
  • Implemented a scalable RAG architecture with a GPT-4o tool-use loop, hybrid semantic search, and strict tenant isolation at database and search index level.
  • Built persistent, project-like chat sessions including a streaming API (SSE), multilingual support, and speech input/output (STT/TTS).
  • Delivered the cloud infrastructure as Infrastructure-as-Code, fully automated per-customer CI/CD pipelines, and an onboarding process for new tenants.

Technologies used: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic (v2 noted), Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, OpenAI / LLMs (GPT-4o), Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Cognitive Services Speech, Azure App Service, Azure Container Registry, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Server-Sent Events (SSE), Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, REST, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Multi-Tenancy

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Ajay Chodankar

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Software Developer & AI Engineer | Python, RESTful APIs, CI/CD, DevOps

Braunschweig
Ajay Chodankar

Last position:

Software Engineer & Cloud AI Developer at TANGILITY GmbH

Built Python-based AI microservices and integrations for an AEC/VR Unity-based SaaS app, focusing on LLM/VLM capabilities, retrieval-backed systems, RESTful APIs, containerized deployment, and an automation microservice for the CAD-to-Unity pipeline.

  • Developed a custom Hybrid A* based algorithm in C# to simulate hospital scenarios and detect early-stage design conflicts from collision/spatial data and generate structured reports.
  • Solved and automated the time-consuming problem of converting CAD files to usable Unity environments with a custom-engineered and real-time pipeline using a ZeroMQ-based communication layer to distribute workloads across multiple processes and achieve real-time performance.
  • Built a Dockerized FastAPI pipeline for CAD-to-Unity automation, combining vision-based object matching, image embeddings, and precomputed metadata to automatically map CAD objects to Unity behavior scripts, assign properties, and reduce repeated AI inference calls.
  • Created documentation and examples to help technical users understand, configure, and extend the AI automation pipeline.
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Jens Sander

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Marketing Strategist – SEA & SEO Expert

Berlin
Jens Sander

Last position:

Marketing Consultant – [New customer acquisition (B2B), Social Media, SEO] at Manufacturer of precision parts made of metal [confidential]

Strategic Marketing / New Customer Acquisition (B2B):

  • Market and competition analysis: Identified competitors, developed evaluation grids, sketched provider landscape with potential customers, competitors and partners
  • Concept for a cross-media, personalized multi-touch campaign
  • Developed the multi-touch strategy in different variants with several stages, defined touchpoints, target companies and target people, developed the ideal customer profile and contact ideas
  • Designed all individual measures: developed concepts for letters, postcards, landing pages, emails, phone calls and downloads
  • Visualized the logic of the contact sequences (flowchart)
  • Described the distinction from "account-based marketing"
  • Implementation planning: Researched providers for packaging, shipping and landing page software, negotiated terms, recommended tools and partners

Social Media Marketing:

  • Target categorization, definition and recommendation for action
  • Review and selection of channels
  • Concept for channel management
  • Developed an 11-week editorial plan (Instagram & LinkedIn)
  • Created, implemented and published image and video posts
  • Campaign launch, ongoing monitoring and optimization

Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

  • Website audit with indexing check
  • Ranking, backlink, traffic and competition analysis
  • Analyzed search and user behavior
  • Consulting on SEO risks during relaunches with domain changes
  • Keyword research and recommendations for action
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Huy Nguyen

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Modern Workplace & Dynamics 365 Consultant

Hamburg
Huy Nguyen

Last position:

Modern Workplace & Dynamics 365 Consultant at Thinformatics

  • Administration and further development of the M365 environment including Teams, Exchange Online, Intune and SharePoint Online
  • Development of dashboards for performance monitoring using Microsoft Power BI
  • Implementation of user requirements and processes with low-code/no-code technologies (Power Apps, Power Automate)
  • Use of Jira and Azure DevOps to plan and implement user stories in an agile project context
  • Participation in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives as technical point of contact
  • Planning and implementation of security policies using Azure Conditional Access and multi-factor authentication
  • Configuration and deployment of clients and applications via MECM (SCCM) and Baramundi
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Markus Sterner

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Full Stack Developer

Herrsching
Markus Sterner

Last position:

Lead Developer at Endress+Hauser SICK GmbH+Co. KG

Lead developer of the frontend and backend systems for a web-based pre-sales tool. It is used by sales staff and engineers to configure and calculate complex measurement systems for industrial customers. Core features include a collaboration platform, a product configurator, physical feasibility checks, and a PDF generator.

TypeScript · Node.js · Nest.js · Angular · REST · MongoDB · Playwright

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Robin Walter Scherler

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Agentic Engineer · AI Engineer · Software Engineer · Context Engineer

Neidenstein
Robin Walter Scherler

Last position:

Developer at agentic-engineer.online

agentic-engineer.online is my publicly testable live demo and at the same time the platform where I show my work. Originally created as a recruitment trial task, I have since continued to run it as my own demo, learning, and product project — on a Hetzner VPS behind a Cloudflare tunnel, through a multi-stage AI-orchestrated deploy pipeline with snapshot rollback. If a deploy step breaks, the system falls back to the last clean snapshot, the script is adjusted, the test repeated — empirical, test-driven, without hand tuning.

  • Technically behind it: Python and FastAPI, an OpenRouter model cascade, SQLite persistence, and Cloudflare edge tuning.
  • I am the developer and the strictest customer of my own AI work in one person — what started as a prototype has become a tool I use every day and against which I test my own products.
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Marc Smyk

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Fullstack Engineer | Java & Spring Boot | Angular | System Integration

Leverkusen
Marc Smyk

Last position:

Fullstack Developer at PLANT-MY-TREE

PLANT-MY-TREE®-per-order

The application enables Shopify merchants to automatically place tree-planting orders for every incoming order. By integrating ecological contributions directly into the purchase process, the manual effort for tracking and billing reforestation initiatives is eliminated. The system increases transparency for end customers through real-time visualizations of the ecological impact directly in the storefront. The architecture is based on a modular monolith with Spring Boot in the backend and an integrated React app inside the Shopify admin area. The solution uses webhooks to capture order data in an event-driven way and integrates the weclapp ERP system for automated monthly invoicing. An app proxy mechanism provides dynamic statistics such as CO2 compensation and planted trees without any performance loss for the merchant shop.

Tasks:

  • Design of the modular software architecture based on Spring Modulith to ensure high maintainability
  • Development of the event-driven business logic for evaluating Shopify orders via webhooks
  • Implementation of automated invoicing by connecting the weclapp REST API
  • Building the frontend using React Router and Shopify App Bridge for native integration
  • Design of the database model and implementation of the persistence layer with JPA/Hibernate and Prisma
  • Integration of internationalization processes for global use in the frontend and email communication
  • Automation of deployment processes using Docker and GitLab CI/CD

Project skills: Java 25, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Modulith, Hibernate, JPA, REST API, PostgreSQL, Maven, Liquibase, React, TypeScript, React Router, Vite, Node.js, Prisma, Zod, Docker, Docker Compose, GitLab CI/CD, Shopify CLI, Shopify App Bridge, Polaris, weclapp, i18next, Lombok, Vitest

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Jorge Nuricumbo

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Senior AI Engineer | Backend Developer C#/.NET | RAG, LLM Integration, Semantic Kernel | Azure, GCP, AWS

Berlin
Jorge Nuricumbo

Last position:

Senior Developer at SafeXSmart KI Solutions UG

AI Platform Backend – Senior Developer

Brought in to design and build a backend for an AI platform from scratch, including multi-provider LLM orchestration and real-time infrastructure for AI influencer personas at scale.

Tasks and responsibilities

  • Architected and implemented a multi-LLM orchestration layer with Semantic Kernel to integrate GPT-4 and other providers for core platform logic and AI influencer personas, reducing model-switching overhead by abstracting provider APIs behind a single interface.
  • Designed and developed a backend from scratch in C# / .NET 10, including domain modeling with DDD, a versioned RESTful API layer, and cloud infrastructure setup on Azure.
  • Built a real-time chat infrastructure with Server-Sent Events (SSE), message persistence, and delivery guarantees for live operation of AI influencer personas at scale.
  • Developed a media management service with integration of cloud object storage for upload and retrieval of influencer-generated content.
  • Created an integration and unit test suite with data seeding for reliable regression testing across all core platform flows, significantly reducing the production error rate.

Tools and technologies: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Python, TypeScript, MySQL, Semantic Kernel, EF Core, Minimal APIs, LLM Orchestration, Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI, Generative AI, AI-Assisted Engineering, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI API, Ollama, Redis, Azure, Azure Container Apps, Azure Database for MySQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice Architecture, CQRS, Domain-Driven Design, REST API, xUnit, Integration Testing, Unit Testing, Jira, Confluence, Scrum

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Mukund Biradar

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AI Engineer | Sr Python Backend Specialist | Agentic AI | LLM Systems & RAG Pipelines

Mukund Biradar

Last position:

Voice AI Chatbot - Real-Time Audio Assistant

  • â–¶ Built real-time voice assistant (STT → LLM → TTS pipeline) benchmarking and evaluating multiple STT providers including faster-whisper and Azure Speech. achieved sub-3s latency, Groq API (Llama 3) with multi-turn memory - directly handling edge cases in dictation, names and passcode recognition.
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Ashutosh Tripathi

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Consultant

Rosenheim
Ashutosh Tripathi

Last position:

Consultant at Brillio Technologies

  • Developed backend for Audit Management Tool using Node.js/Express with Workday API integration.
  • Built secure file handling (PDF, PPT, CSV) with AWS S3 and database support via PostgreSQL, Prisma, and MongoDB.
  • Implemented validation, role-based access, and audit trails for compliance and data integrity.
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David Backhausen

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Senior Frontend Architect & UX Designer

Kassel
David Backhausen

Last position:

Founder / Fullstack Product Engineer / UX Designer at Ondoko

  • Built a complete real-time multiplayer platform with game engine, lobby system, game tables, spectator mode, and persistent game history.
  • Implemented product-relevant multiplayer workflows with WebSocket communication, live synchronization, voice chat, mobile app features, and push notifications.
  • Developed a scalable full-stack architecture with authentication, PostgreSQL persistence, premium/billing integration, and extensive test coverage.
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Uwe Schwarz

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AI Engineer · Security & Solution Architect

Ludwigshafen
Uwe Schwarz

Last position:

Technical Program Lead IPv6 Migration at Deutsche Rentenversicherung (RP, BW)

  • Technical program ownership for the IPv6 migration at DRV RP and DRV BW, with a focus on migration planning, execution structure, and cross-functional technical coordination.
  • Designed and implemented an operational control model with dashboard, action board, KPI portfolio, risk register, and decision index to translate technical topics into structured delivery artifacts.
  • Coordinated technical groundwork for architecture and rollout across IPv6 addressing, segmentation, dual-stack target design, test-lab planning, and cross-team dependencies.
  • Supported security and compliance-related requirements in the context of BSI, NIS2, and critical infrastructure, translating them into traceable evidence, risks, and management reporting.
  • Achievement: Established a reusable intake-to-governance workflow for systematically capturing technical actions, risks, open issues, and evidence requirements.
  • Achievement: Created an operational baseline for technical program execution with measurable KPIs, clear ownership, and transparent decision support.

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Statistics of experts using PDF

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

21 years

Position duration

2.1 years

Positions per freelancer

14

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

85%

Master's degree or higher

57%

Doctorate

7%

Certifications per freelancer

2

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

97%

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

Average rates of experts in Germany using PDF

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

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Daily rate avg. 718 €

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 720 €

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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

PDF work

PDF is the standard format for fixed-layout documents. Companies use it for contracts, reports, brochures, manuals, invoices, and forms that must look the same on every device. Strong professionals know when a PDF should stay final and when it needs to be built for editing, search, signing, or archiving.

Common tasks

  • Create and refine PDFs from Office files, design tools, or web output
  • Combine, split, compress, and secure documents for daily use
  • Build fillable forms and approval flows
  • Prepare files for digital signatures and long-term storage

Tools and ecosystem

Work often centers on Adobe Acrobat, PDF libraries, OCR tools, and document automation stacks. Many projects also touch scanners, e-signature services, CMS exports, and workflow systems. Skilled specialists understand the trade-offs between file size, fidelity, accessibility, and automation.

When companies bring in specialists

Teams usually look for freelance help when PDF handling becomes too manual or too fragile. Common cases include template updates, broken form fields, unreadable scans, merge errors, or compliance needs around secure documents. In Germany, this often comes up in legal, industrial, public sector, and insurance environments.

What strong experts do

Strong PDF professionals think in structure, not just pages. They preserve fonts, links, tags, bookmarks, and metadata, and they know how to make documents searchable and accessible. They also spot issues in prepress output, hybrid scans, and files that fail in production.

Collaboration and quality

Many PDF tasks fit remote work well because the deliverable is clear and file based. On-site support can help when teams need training, legacy document cleanup, or coordination with print and compliance workflows. Good experts deliver clean source files, consistent naming, and clear handover notes.

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Frequently asked questions

Not sure where to start with PDF? These answers cover the essentials.

A strong PDF specialist helps turn messy document work into a reliable process. That can mean creating locked final files, fixing forms, preparing documents for signatures, improving searchability, or cleaning up files that break in production.

Choose PDF when layout must stay fixed across devices and when a document needs to look the same everywhere. Word and HTML are better for ongoing editing or web delivery, while PDF is stronger for final contracts, brochures, reports, and archived records.

Adobe Acrobat covers many everyday tasks, but larger projects often need deeper expertise. A specialist may also work with OCR, document automation, prepress checks, form logic, or PDF libraries when files must be generated or processed at scale.

A good PDF professional usually brings more than file editing. Useful adjacent skills include document design, accessibility tagging, OCR, digital signatures, print preparation, and workflow automation with systems that create or route documents.

For PDF work, the clearer the source material, the better the result. Share the input files, the target use case, the required format, and any rules for signatures, language, branding, or accessibility so the specialist can estimate the work correctly.

Yes, most PDF tasks are easy to handle remotely because the work centers on files, templates, and review cycles. On-site collaboration in Germany can still help when teams need access to legacy archives, internal approval chains, or print production setups.

Look for a PDF expert who checks structure, not only appearance. Good work keeps links intact, fonts embedded, forms functional, text searchable, and accessibility tags consistent, with source files and clear handover notes included.

PDF editing is about changing individual files by hand, while automation creates or processes many files from templates, data, or workflow rules. If your team repeats the same document task often, automation is usually the better fit.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used PDF in their recent projects is 90 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 718 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used PDF in their recent projects, 85% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 57% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used PDF in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used PDF in their recent projects are German (97%), English (96%), and French (22%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used PDF in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Banking and Finance (53%), and Manufacturing (48%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used PDF in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Product Development (86%), and Quality Assurance (56%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used PDF

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.

Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg

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