
PostgreSQL Experts in Austria
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Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Artellico / Own company for AI governance and data products
- Consulting and interim management at the intersection of IT operations and regulation
- Impact assessment and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Teaching assignments in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at Hochschule Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of Master's theses and participation on examination boards
- Industry talks for businesses and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and Zero-Knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- Integration with bank account systems using SEPA direct debit mandates and message formats under ISO 20022 (pain.008, camt.053)
- MLOps and AIOps in live operations
- Own applications under my own brand: shared codebase, separate deployment for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe-coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Professional publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Professional publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics
Christian W.
Last position:
Lead Developer & Performance Specialist at Groox GmbH
Sole responsibility for the design, development and deployment of the bilingual Qwik platform eventvideo.at. Responsible for frontend performance optimization (PageSpeed 97/100/100/100), SEO engineering with Schema.org, integration of Google Search Console and IndexNow, and building the GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline. Requirements gathering and technical implementation.
- Performance Engineering: Google PageSpeed Score 97/100/100/100 (Performance / Accessibility / Best Practices / SEO) through frontend optimization (lazy loading, thumbnail-first, lightweight media integration)
- Full-Stack Web Development: Sole responsibility for development with the Qwik.js framework from frontend to deployment for the bilingual (DE/EN) platform eventvideo.at, marketing personalized, fully automated participant videos for sports events
- Qwik.js Resumability Architecture: Server-side rendering with minimal JavaScript hydration overhead; the page remains immediately interactive even with extensive video and event content, without a full-page load.
- API Integration: Google Search Console API and IndexNow API for automated indexing and SEO monitoring
- SEO Engineering: Schema.org Structured Data implementation for rich snippets and improved search engine visibility
- Mobile-First with minimal bundle size: CSS3 layout without UI framework overhead, consistently lean use of resources for excellent PageSpeed on desktop and mobile.
- GitHub Actions CI/CD: Automated build, test and deployment pipeline for continuous integration
Technologies: Qwik.js Framework, TypeScript, JavaScript, Internationalization (i18n DE/EN), GitHub Actions CI/CD, Google Search Console API, IndexNow API, Schema.org, Google PageSpeed Insights, Lazy Loading, CSS3, Responsive Design
Chrisabel P.
Last position:
AI Systems & Product Strategy Expert at Webmeisterin
I build. I advise. I think in systems. After years leading digital transformation at scale — Accenture, BP, Lidl — I made a deliberate choice: trade platform dependency for structural independence. My focus is at the intersection of AI systems, product strategy, and venture thinking. I work with operators and founders who want to move fast without losing control — of their data, their stack, their direction.
Emre H.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at SIWA Online GmbH
- Planning and implementation of IT infrastructures for customers
- Automation of provisioning with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK
- Monitoring and optimization of cloud environments and the entire IT infrastructure
- Technical support and troubleshooting for infrastructure issues
- Collaboration with development teams on CI/CD processes
Matthias K.
Last position:
Requirements Engineer & Business Analyst at Media Company
Analysis of existing work, information and decision-making processes.
Identification and prioritization of suitable use cases for AI agents.
Elicitation of functional and non-functional requirements.
Design of collaboration between users and AI agents, including control and escalation mechanisms.
Support for the implementation of the AI agents and adapted keyboard hardware.
Business target vision for the AI-first transformation.
Structured and prioritized requirements for implementation.
Defined roles, interactions and control points between people and AI agents.
Preparation for the gradual automation of productive work processes.
Techstack: AI agents, LLMs, agent orchestration, RAG, APIs, automation, hardware
Karl F.
Last position:
Managing Director at ONECEPT GmbH
John A.
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Mario M.
Last position:
Co-Founder and CTO at B2B SaaS Recruiting Platform
Complete build of a B2B SaaS platform for recruitment agencies
- Multi-source job aggregation via ATS APIs
- AI-assisted career page scraping
- Rule-based and AI-assisted matching
- Credit-based monetization model with Stripe integration
- Live in production since July 2026
Tech stack
- NestJS
- React
- PostgreSQL
- pgvector
- Claude AI
- Prisma
Tobias F.
Last position:
CTO & Founder at bitminds
Selected projects:
Kiosk platform – Hospitality
- Led a 3-person team while taking a hands-on role in designing an edge computing infrastructure for over 15 self-service kiosks in Alpine hotels with unstable connectivity
- Designed a Nomad-based cluster with a Wireguard mesh network for fully automated OTA updates, even during local network outages and offline operation
- Integrated physical peripherals (hotel card readers, thermal printers) into a containerized deployment pipeline
- Reduced on-site maintenance visits by ∼40% with a resilient offline-first architecture and Prometheus-based hardware monitoring
- Tech: Nomad, Consul, Wireguard, NestJS, NextJS, Prometheus, Custom Hardware Provisioning
Multi-tenant SaaS platform – Insurance claims management
- Built and operated the Kubernetes infrastructure for a market-leading claims management platform (acquired by an S&P 500 company) — with strict compliance and availability requirements
- Designed a multi-tenant EKS cluster with tenant isolation, enabling cost-effective single-instance hosting for multiple customers
- Introduced dynamic spot instance node pools, reducing infrastructure costs by ∼20%
- Built fully automated deployment pipelines (Terraform + GitHub Actions) for uninterrupted releases during business hours
- Tech: EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, PHP, GraphQL
Legacy ERP integration – Construction photo documentation
- Led a 2-person team in designing and building a real-time sync bridge between a legacy Microsoft Access ERP system (without an API) and a modern mobile photo app for construction quality control
- Developed a PostgreSQL pipeline with real-time listeners that extracts data from 1990s Access databases without disrupting existing workflows
- Built a resilient upload architecture using the circuit breaker pattern for unstable construction site connections (S3, NFS, Synology NAS)
- Saved 2–4 hours per week for each project manager through automated photo sync instead of manual USB/SD card transfers
- Tech: NestJS, PostgreSQL, React Native (Expo), S3, Synology API, Offline-First Architecture
Nikola N.
Last position:
Founder and CEO - Senior Business Analyst at fintechno AI GmbH
- Business analysis
- Requirements engineering
- System design
- Various insurance projects
- Technology stack: msg.Billing (InExkasso)
- Product: Pay-per-use car insurance based on blockchain and OBD-II real-time telemetry with AI
Roman M.
Last position:
Software Engineer at FSM Rechtsanwälte
- Develop AWS-based components connecting Python backend services to React/TypeScript frontends.
- Improve database queries and application workflows for document processing and screening.
- Evaluate LLM retrieval and document-review workflows as part of the product stack.
Marc-Anthony T.
Last position:
Software Developer at Dawnguard.AI
- Took Dawnguard from initial product concept to a launched MVP within two months, building the backend platform and reducing cloud-environment scan times from approximately 40 minutes to under two minutes across 70 accounts.
- Designed and built the core resource discovery engine for Azure and AWS, enabling the frontend to visualise complex cloud environments and the AI to evaluate architectural patterns.
- Engineered distributed APIs and dynamic Cosmos DB schemas to support rapidly evolving product requirements and variable cloud-environment structures.
- Built the architecture-generation engine to support clients with 100+ cloud accounts and dynamically generate complete architectures containing approximately 25,000 resources.
- Developed custom data-generation tools that enabled the AI and frontend teams to simulate and test large-scale cloud architectures.
- Delivered backend features end to end by working with AI, frontend, and business stakeholders from technical design through implementation and testing.
Stefania D.
Last position:
Data Engineer at Storebox
Tech: AWS (Glue, Lambda, Redshift), Airflow, PostgreSQL, Python, PySpark, Metabase, Power BI
Delivered: Analytics-Ready Data Models • Legacy SQL to Cloud ETL Migration • Dynamic Pricing Engine
- Owned and evolved the company data warehouse end-to-end — from ingestion to transformation to analytics-ready dimensional data models on AWS Redshift.
- Collaborated with Analysts, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable dimensional data models that enable self-serve analytics and streamline dashboarding in Metabase and Power BI.
- Architected end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS (Glue, Lambda, Redshift) using Python and PySpark, orchestrated with Apache Airflow (MWAA) for reliability and observability.
- Defined and enforced data quality standards and governance practices across pipelines and the core data layer.
- Led migration of legacy SQL infrastructure into scalable AWS Glue pipelines with distributed PySpark processing, eliminating bottlenecks and reducing downtime.
- Developed a dynamic pricing engine applying automated promotional discounts based on occupancy rates, competitor pricing, and location performance tiers.
- Designed schema mappings to ingest MongoDB data into structured relational systems (Redshift/PostgreSQL).
Marcel S.
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer - Python at Insurance Company
Project Tech Stack: Python, AWS, Azure, FastAPI, openai, pandas, unittest/pymock
Achievements:
- Engineered automated data extraction pipelines to transform complex Excel datasets into structured formats via LLM-driven workflows.
- Architected a generative slide-deck engine that translates natural language prompts into formatted presentation assets.
- Integrated advanced LLM capabilities with the OpenAI Response API, implementing sophisticated tool-calling and structured output logic.
- Developed and containerized scalable backend microservice using FastAPI, Docker, and OpenShift to host and serve agentic skills.
Michail M.
Last position:
OpenShift / Kubernetes Consultant at cloudWerkstatt
Implementation and operation of OpenShift / Kubernetes solutions for customers, focusing on aspects such as storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability. Support with application containerization and modernization.
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Statistics of experts using PostgreSQL
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years

Position duration
2.7 years

Positions per freelancer
11

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
85%
Master's degree or higher
57%
Doctorate
6%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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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.
PostgreSQL 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 (89%)
- Banking and Finance (46%)
- Professional Services (36%)
- Transportation (33%)
- Retail (31%)
- Government and Administration (30%)
- Education (28%)
- Telecommunication (28%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Relational foundation
PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database used to store, query and protect structured business data. It supports transactional applications, analytical workloads, geospatial use cases and complex data models. Its SQL standards support, extensibility and reliability make it a strong fit for systems that need more than simple key-value storage.
What it builds
Companies use PostgreSQL for customer platforms, financial systems, online services, logistics applications and internal business tools. It can power a central system of record or work alongside event streams, search services and analytical warehouses.
- Transactional web and mobile backends
- Reporting and operational analytics
- Geospatial applications with PostGIS
- Data platforms with structured JSON fields
Ecosystem and tooling
Strong PostgreSQL specialists work with SQL, PL/pgSQL, indexing, query planning, constraints and transaction isolation. Their wider toolkit may include PostGIS, foreign data wrappers, logical replication, connection pooling and migration tools. They often connect PostgreSQL to application frameworks, Docker, Kubernetes and managed cloud database services.
When expertise matters
Freelance expertise is useful when a growing workload exposes slow queries, locking issues or an unclear schema. It also helps during a migration from MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, when a team is adopting PostgreSQL for a new product, or when a critical database needs safer operations.
- Review schema and indexing decisions
- Diagnose query and transaction bottlenecks
- Plan upgrades, migrations and replication
- Set up backup, recovery and monitoring practices
Austria collaboration
Teams in Austria may bring in PostgreSQL professionals for fintech, manufacturing, retail, public services and software products that depend on dependable data access. Remote collaboration works well for schema reviews, performance analysis and implementation, while on-site work can help with workshops, migrations and close coordination. German or English communication can be agreed around the project team.
Signs of quality
A strong specialist explains trade-offs instead of adding indexes or replicas by default. They validate changes with execution plans, realistic workloads and measurable recovery procedures. Look for experience with data modeling, observability, security controls and application behavior, not only familiarity with PostgreSQL syntax.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about PostgreSQL, in one place.
PostgreSQL is used for transactional applications, customer and product platforms, reporting systems, geospatial services and data-heavy internal tools. It handles structured relational data while also supporting JSON, extensions and advanced query patterns.
PostgreSQL is often chosen for advanced SQL, strong data integrity, extensibility and complex queries. MySQL may suit simpler application workloads, while Microsoft SQL Server can be a natural fit in Microsoft-centered environments; the right choice depends on existing systems, team skills and operational needs.
A capable PostgreSQL specialist should understand data modeling, SQL performance, backup and recovery, monitoring and access control. Experience with application frameworks, cloud infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, PostGIS or replication is valuable when the database supports a larger production system.
The need depends on risk and complexity rather than a fixed duration. A straightforward schema review may need focused database knowledge, while a migration, high-load system or recovery redesign calls for a professional who has handled production incidents, upgrade planning and performance investigations.
PostgreSQL work is often suitable for remote collaboration because specialists can inspect schemas, review query plans and improve configurations through controlled access. On-site sessions in Austria can still help with discovery workshops, stakeholder alignment or sensitive migration cutovers.
Ask the specialist to explain a past performance investigation, including the evidence used and the trade-offs considered. A strong PostgreSQL professional will discuss execution plans, locking, indexes, workload patterns, monitoring and rollback options rather than promise a single universal fix.
PostgreSQL supports JSON and JSONB for semi-structured data and can be extended with PostGIS for geospatial storage and analysis. These capabilities are useful when a system combines relational records with location data or changing attributes, but the schema and indexing strategy still need careful design.
Professionals working with PostgreSQL should be comfortable reading execution plans, designing constraints, managing migrations and protecting production data. They may also need to communicate with application teams about connection handling, transaction behavior, deployment processes and recovery objectives.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 808 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects, 85% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 57% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are German (98%), English (98%), and French (13%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Banking and Finance (46%), and Professional Services (36%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (82%), and Project Management (48%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used PostgreSQL
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.
Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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