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Emre S.

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Freelance IT Project Manager and Technical Project Lead

Köln
Emre S.

Last position:

IT Project Manager | SAP E-Invoicing Outbound at Rohde & Schwarz

Project: Introduction of statutory-compliant electronic invoicing (outbound, Germany) in SAP for an international technology group.

  • Project management: Planning, steering and reporting of the E-Invoicing outbound rollout across all affected business areas, including budget and resource coordination.
  • UAT: Structured user acceptance test with key users per business area, test cases per invoice scenario, and consolidated test results for decision making.
  • Defect management: Handover and tracking of defects in Jira, including validation of the generated invoices against the statutory schemas.
  • Cutover, go-live and hypercare: Readiness checks and cutover planning aligned with the statutory deadlines, coordination of go-live and stabilization during hypercare.
  • Stakeholder management and reporting: Alignment with Finance, Tax, business departments and IT, preparation of status reports and decision papers, and consistent follow-up of open items.
  • Change management and documentation: Communicated process changes to the business departments, enabled key users, and created process and compliance documentation to ensure traceability and audit readiness.
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Henning U.

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Senior Expert Data Governance, Master Data Quality and Data Migration

Leichlingen (Rheinland)
Henning U.

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Senior Expert Data Governance, Master Data Quality and Data Migration at E.ON

  • Planning and implementation of a migration strategy for master and transaction data for the continuous loading of a cloud-independent database
  • Creation and pilot implementation of a company-wide Business Data Model for customers, suppliers, contracts, products, prices, consumption, invoices, and dunning
  • Concept and consulting for a Data Governance Framework incl. definition of committees, roles, processes, and metadata model
  • Operationalization of the Data Governance Framework with definition of data standards
  • Sub-project management in two pilot projects (PoCs) for Data Governance systems (ErwinDIS and Atlan)
  • Training and coaching the data team in migration, data quality, and data modeling
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Edgardo C.

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Senior Software Engineer | Integration Consultant

Cologne
Edgardo C.

Last position:

Independent Senior Software Engineer & Integration Consultant at Thinkronic

Software engineering and integration consulting for enterprise clients, with a focus on backend development, APIs, system integration, and event-driven architectures. Currently developing and evolving a recruitment and staffing platform using Elixir and RabbitMQ, including asynchronous, event-driven communication and integrations with external recruitment and staffing platforms.

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Yaroslav S.

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Senior Low-Code Consultant

Cologne
Yaroslav S.

Last position:

Senior Low-Code Consultant at Freelancer

  • Structured analysis and evaluation of business processes

  • Gathering, documenting, and prioritizing requirements

  • Creating business-friendly and technically executable process models

  • Use of Camunda tools

  • Deriving requirements and interfaces from BPMN diagrams

  • Coordination with stakeholders and business units

  • Translating business requirements into technical solution designs

  • Implementing efficient and tailored applications

  • Systematic collection, analysis, and documentation of requirements

  • Prioritizing and validating requirements in close collaboration with stakeholders

  • Alignment between business and development to ensure shared objectives

  • Creating use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria

  • Continuous requirements and change management throughout the project lifecycle

  • Define project goals and create project plans

  • Delegate tasks and monitor project progress

  • Monitor budgets and inform stakeholders

  • Mendix: Architecture, development, and maintenance of custom applications (Microflows, Domain Model, Security, XPath)

  • Modeling Mendix workflows for process optimization

  • Develop scalable apps with Mendix including REST/SOAP integration with SAP, SQL, Azure & SharePoint

  • UI design for Mendix using Atlas UI, Fluent UI, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

  • Develop web & mobile apps with Mendix using agile methods (Scrum, Kanban)

  • Implement business logic with Mendix Microflows and Nanoflows

  • Performance optimization and architecture improvements for Mendix applications

  • Conduct Mendix training

  • Create technical documentation and best practices for Mendix

  • Coaching and mentoring for low-code development with Mendix

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Piet A.

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Senior Product Engineer / Automation Developer

Cologne
Piet A.

Last position:

Founder at RubberMetrics.com

  • Self-hosted table tennis equipment platform.
  • Development of a custom “Racket Builder” that uses a co-evolutionary genetic algorithm to identify, evaluate, and recommend the optimal combinations of racket blades and rubbers based on physics heuristics and player data within a search space of over 4 billion combinations.
  • Development of a custom fully automated web crawler to capture equipment specifications, integrating an automated pipeline for image normalization as well as data harmonization via DeepSeek.
  • Cloudflare Edge Workers written in Rust to perform low-latency data searches and offload computationally intensive simulations from the main server.
  • High performance and accessibility standards across a large Nuxt 4 codebase achieving 95–100/100/100 Lighthouse scores.
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Andreas B.

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Senior Software Developer

Troisdorf
Andreas B.

Last position:

Senior Software Developer at ELIONOVA AG

  • Created an application to control measurement hardware with a Tauri application using React.JS and TypeScript on Raspberry Pi
  • Developed a cloud application for storing and analyzing measurement results using Spring Boot and React.JS
  • Built a Tauri application for printing ZPL labels on Windows
  • Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Tauri, Rust, React.JS, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, REST API (JSON), Maven, CI/CD, PostgreSQL
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Daniel L.

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Developer / Software Architect

Kerpen
Daniel L.

Last position:

Developer / Software Architect at rffl.io

  • PHP 8.4
  • Platform for prize draws: API-first approach with Symfony/API Platform
  • API Platform 4.2 (REST, JWT, Doctrine/PostgreSQL, API documentation) plus AWS tools
  • Symfony 7.3 for infrastructure, hosting, and subsequent operation on AWS with ECS
  • Postgres
  • AWS RDS, SQS, Fargate, RDS Postgres database, and AWS-SQS message queue
  • Infrastructure management with Terraform
  • After successful Terraform implementation, the next organizational step is to establish a GmbH
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Fahad R.

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AI Platform Engineer | MLOps | Kubernetes | Cloud Infrastructure

Bonn
Fahad R.

Last position:

Data Science – Operations Optimization at Netto-marken

Project: Digitalization of Warehouse Processes | Building a Data Analytics Platform.

  • Built a web-based workforce allocation system that digitized daily shift planning by matching worker expertise to operational zones, replacing manual coordination with a structured workflow adopted across the site, saving supervisors time on daily planning.
  • Developed a real-time operational visibility dashboard giving supervisors a live view of task throughput and outstanding workload across warehouse zones throughout the day, helping reduce overtime and idle labour costs.
  • Developed a slotting optimization solution to improve warehouse picking efficiency and reduce picking time per order, working directly with operations teams from concept through production deployment.

Technologies used: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Pandas, NumPy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Power BI, GitHub Actions CI/CD, GitOps, Claude, OpenAI

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Ahmed M.

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Full-Stack Software Engineer | Cloud & Web Platforms

Cologne
Ahmed M.

Last position:

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at NEW NETZ

  • Built more than 15 frontend applications and more than 10 backend services across internal tools, back-office workflows, and external portals for installers and end customers
  • Automate build and release workflows with TypeScript and Azure DevOps
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical guidance
  • Integrate AI-assisted and agentic development practices into engineering workflows
  • Coordinate user experience decisions with UX designers

Tech Stack: Claude Code, Codex, AWS (S3, Lambda, AppSync, Resolver), Next.js App Router, ReactJS, NuxtJS, Vue.js, Storybook, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, Azure DevOps

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Rainer L.

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Senior IT Consultant, Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Senior DevOps Engineer

Cologne
Rainer L.

Last position:

Senior IT Consultant, Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Senior DevOps Engineer at Techniker Krankenkasse

  • Automation of the database major / minor releases for the TKeasy project

  • Concept for database major / minor release automation

  • Assessment of the current state

  • Evaluation of Redgate Flyway functionalities

  • Concept development

  • Products: Redgate Flyway, GitHub, Quest, Erwin Data Modeller, Oracle, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence

  • Knowledge: Docker, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Redgate Flyway, Major Releases, Minor Releases

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Nawfal C.

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Nawfal Cherif

Bonn
Nawfal C.

Last position:

Internship in Software Development at Haeger Consulting

  • working in a team using an agile method (Scrum)
  • Backend development in Java (Spring Boot)
  • Frontend development in Angular
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Andreas K.

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Backend Developer

Bonn
Andreas K.

Last position:

Backend Developer at Univention GmbH

  • Developed a SCIM-compliant Python interface to connect external systems
  • Expanded and enhanced UCS modules in Python
  • Extended and newly developed Helm charts for container orchestration in Kubernetes
  • Maintained and further developed CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
  • Implemented automated tests with Pytest and Playwright

'Nubus' is based on a microservice architecture, relies on open source technologies, and runs in Docker containers.

UCS is an IAM complete solution based on Debian, used as an alternative to Microsoft's Active Directory. The work was characterized by the close integration of infrastructure and application logic.

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Hooman B.

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Fullstack Developer

Cologne
Hooman B.

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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Jeanne Y.

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Process Engineering Intern

Cologne
Jeanne Y.

Last position:

Process Engineering Intern at Procter & Gamble

  • Independently initiated and deployed automated validation workflows using Python, cutting manual processing by 58% and improving efficiency
  • Developed a machine learning model for synthetic defect generation, reducing downtime and production costs; deployed locally and via Databricks and Azure AI Factory
  • Utilized a small dataset of image data from the production lines and extended this dataset with training on models like cycleGAN and pix2pix
  • Built and optimized the Linux-based development environment for training 3D models; maintained reproducibility via GitHub
  • Presented technical insights to cross-functional teams (engineers, QA, project managers), ensuring alignment of ML solutions with operational needs

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Statistics of experts using PostgreSQL

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

16 years (Germany: 17 years)

PostgreSQL experts in Cologne have 16 years of professional experience on average. It is 1 year less than in Germany, where the average stands at 17 years.

Position duration

2 years (Germany: 5.1 years)

PostgreSQL experts in Cologne stay in a single position for 2 years on average. It is 3.1 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 5.1 years.

Positions per freelancer

12

PostgreSQL experts in Cologne have completed 12 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

PostgreSQL experts in Cologne have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Quality Assurance.

Top industries

Information Technology, Retail, Transportation

PostgreSQL experts in Cologne are most in demand in Information Technology, Retail, and Transportation.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

PostgreSQL experts in Cologne earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

97% (Germany: 91%)

97% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 6% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 91%.

Master's degree or higher

74% (Germany: 59%)

74% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne hold at least a Master's degree. It is 15% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 59%.

Doctorate

3% (Germany: 7%)

3% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne have a doctorate (PhD). It is 4% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 7%.

Certifications per freelancer

3 (Germany: 2)

PostgreSQL experts in Cologne hold 3 professional certifications on average. It is 1 more than in Germany, where the average stands at 2.

Most common languages

German, English, French

PostgreSQL experts in Cologne most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 97%)

100% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne speak two or more languages. It is 3% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 97%.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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3% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne charge less than €480 per day.
23% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne charge between €480 and €640 per day.
46% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne charge between €640 and €800 per day.
21% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne charge between €800 and €960 per day.
8% of PostgreSQL experts in Cologne charge €960 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Cologne are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.

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Average rates of experts in Cologne using PostgreSQL

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

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Daily rate avg. 708 €
Germany avg. 757 €

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 704 €
Germany median 760 €

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 (90%)
  • Retail (57%)
  • Transportation (43%)
  • Banking and Finance (38%)
  • Professional Services (38%)
  • Automotive (36%)
  • Manufacturing (36%)
  • Telecommunication (36%)

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 for transactional applications, reporting systems, and data-intensive services. Often called Postgres, it supports structured SQL data alongside JSON, geospatial records, full-text search, and custom data types. Its strong consistency makes it suitable for systems where data integrity matters.

What it supports

PostgreSQL specialists deliver database foundations for many kinds of software:

  • Design schemas, relationships, constraints, and migration strategies
  • Build secure APIs and transaction-heavy business applications
  • Support analytics, reporting, and operational data workflows
  • Store geospatial data with PostGIS and search content with native tools
  • Connect applications to queues, warehouses, and cloud services

Ecosystem and tooling

The PostgreSQL ecosystem includes migration tools, connection pools, monitoring systems, backup solutions, and administration interfaces. Professionals commonly work with PostGIS, pgAdmin, PL/pgSQL, logical replication, and extensions for search or vector workloads. They also bring experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and managed database services when the surrounding infrastructure calls for it.

When expertise matters

Companies often bring in freelance PostgreSQL expertise during a new product build, a database redesign, or a migration from another relational system. Specialists can investigate slow queries, reduce lock contention, improve indexing, and establish dependable backup and recovery processes. In Cologne, remote collaboration can work well, while on-site sessions may help with workshops, incident reviews, or regulated environments.

Strong delivery signals

A strong PostgreSQL professional starts with the workload rather than applying generic tuning advice. They inspect query plans, understand transaction isolation, and make schema decisions that reflect real access patterns. They document migrations, test failure scenarios, and explain trade-offs clearly to application and infrastructure teams.

Choosing the right specialist

Look for relevant experience with the database features your system actually needs, such as replication, partitioning, PostGIS, or high-volume reporting. Ask for examples of measurable improvements without relying on unsupported claims, and explore how the specialist handles data protection, observability, and rollback plans. Cologne-based teams should also clarify language expectations, working hours, and the balance between remote and on-site work.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the questions that come up most around PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL is used for business applications, customer platforms, financial systems, content services, analytics, and geospatial products. It handles structured relational data while also supporting JSON, full-text search, extensions, and complex queries.

PostgreSQL generally offers broader support for advanced SQL, custom data types, extensibility, and complex transactional workloads. MySQL may be a practical choice for simpler application patterns, so the decision should follow the data model, query needs, operational environment, and existing team skills.

A strong PostgreSQL freelancer should understand data modelling, SQL, application integration, indexing, backups, monitoring, and security. Experience with cloud infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, migration tools, and a programming ecosystem such as Java, Python, or Node.js can also be valuable.

The right level depends on the workload and risk. A straightforward application may need solid schema and query skills, while replication, partitioning, large migrations, or incident recovery call for a specialist who has handled those situations in production.

PostgreSQL projects are often well suited to remote collaboration because schemas, migrations, query plans, and infrastructure changes can be reviewed online. Cologne teams should define access controls, documentation standards, meeting needs, and whether occasional on-site workshops are important.

PostgreSQL is often preferable when relationships, transactions, constraints, and dependable SQL querying are central to the system. A document or key-value database may fit better when access patterns are less relational or require a different scaling model, but the choice should follow actual workload demands.

Ask the specialist to explain schema decisions, query plans, indexing choices, migration risks, and recovery procedures in plain language. High-quality PostgreSQL work includes tested changes, useful monitoring, clear documentation, and safeguards against data loss or unexpected locking.

Postgres is the common short name for PostgreSQL, and both refer to the same database system in everyday technical discussions. The official product name is PostgreSQL, while Postgres is widely used in documentation, community conversations, and project tooling.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects is 88 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 708 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects, 97% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 74% hold at least a Master's degree, and 3% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (31%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Retail (57%), and Transportation (43%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (83%), and Quality Assurance (60%).

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