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Will O.

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Solution Architect

Esslingen
Will O.

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Solution Architect at Polizei Behörde Stuttgart

  • Designed a migration strategy for WLS applications to BKA Cloud and Stack IT

  • Created a hybrid cloud for internal testing and development with Kubernetes

  • Transformed the IT landscape from an outdated monolithic architecture to a cloud-based architecture

  • Integrated new CI/CD processes using Azure Pipelines

  • Quadrupled the processing throughput for personnel security checks

  • Migrated personnel security screening applications to Docker-based applications

  • Implemented CI/deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps

  • Environment: Java Springboot, Kubernetes, Oracle Weblogic, OpenID, Camunda, JUnit, TOGAF

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Karin A.

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Language Expert – Python Developer – AI Engineer

Leonberg
Karin A.

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AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German at Lilt

  • Task Engineering: Evaluating Coding Agents.
  • Asset Creation: Building realistic task environments using datasets and files in German. Crucially, these assets must remain in the target language to genuinely measure multilingual handling.
  • Prompting & Translation: finding failure points where AI does not work, in German.
  • Implementation & Verification: Supporting the development of robust solutions (reference implementations) and write highly reliable, deterministic verifier scripts (using rubric-based judging only when strictly necessary).
  • Calibration & Execution: Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty (Easy to Very Hard) using standard Terminal-Bench run configurations against various model tiers (Haiku, Opus).
  • Quality Assurance: Participation in a rigorous, 4-layer human quality control process (creation, human review, calibration review, and audit) alongside automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity.
  • Linguistic Review: Reviewing AI benchmark tasks across Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Czech and Turkish.
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Matthias S.

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Software Developer and Consultant

Böblingen
Matthias S.

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Software Developer and Consultant at CLADE GmbH

  • Analysis of the existing CAN communication between microcontrollers
  • Analysis of the sensors used and the measured values collected
  • Planning the CAN messages for transmitting the measured values
  • Iterative adjustment of the microcontroller code to the new CAN messages
  • Cross-compilation from x64 to arm64
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Pierre-Jean A.

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BI Expert | ETL & Data Architecture | ERP Integration | Reporting

Stuttgart
Pierre-Jean A.

Last position:

Verification Engineer – Aviation at Tri.Merge GmbH

  • Automated analysis of test script repositories using Python
  • Set up a SQLite database for signal and value tracking
  • Identified critical inconsistencies through ad hoc SQL queries
  • Technologies: Python, SQLite, Excel/ODBC
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Ronald F.

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Senior IT Consultant

Stuttgart
Ronald F.

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Senior IT Consultant – Requirement Engineer at Deutsche Bank - Strivion

Methodology: Agile project management

Goal: Digitization and implementation of CCD2 requirements within the Consumer Finance systems.

Analysis, identification, and assessment of business requirements, as well as their transfer into technical implementation requirements. Coordination and status reporting of the various requirements. Documentation and process management using UML and BMPN. Cross-functional stakeholder management, UAT testing, data management, API architecture management.

Tools: Jira, Confluence, Visual Code, Sql Developer, Enterprise Architect, MsOffice, Bruno, ALM, Camunda, Figma

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Salim C.

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Cloud / Systems Architect

Stuttgart
Salim C.

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Cloud / Systems Architect

  • Development and introduction of operations processes
  • Preparation of complete documentation packages (including incident management and operations support) to meet compliance requirements
  • Introduction of a workshop on IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
  • Technical consulting for the project security concept (ISMS)
  • Installation and operation of Kubernetes clusters on AWS, on-prem, and Azure
  • Hybrid cloud architecture design (on-prem, Hetzner, AWS)
  • Analysis and troubleshooting of incidents and system outages
  • Network adjustments for firewall rules, gateways, OpenVPN settings, and IPsec tunnels (pfSense)
  • Technical consulting on Bitbucket, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
  • Consulting on Ansible deployments and infrastructure automation
  • Consulting on building a scalable system in the cloud (AWS / Azure)
  • Technologies / Tools: Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Azure, VPN, pfSense, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Kubernetes, GitLab Runner, ISMS, Golang, Prometheus, Grafana, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, Cognito, OIDC, Harbor, MinIO, Postgres, Redis, Keycloak, Ceph, Proxmox, CloudFormation, PostgreSQL, Flux CD, Hetzner, IONOS, Sonatype Nexus Repository, Entra ID, Dex IdP, Pulumi
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Artyom N.

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Senior Software & Cloud Consultant

Ludwigsburg
Artyom N.

Last position:

AI Automation Engineer & Solution Architect at Technology Research Project

Designed and developed an AI-powered automation platform using n8n to analyze social media niches, identify target audiences, and automate marketing strategy generation. The solution combined AI agents, workflow orchestration, and data analysis to automate research processes and generate data-driven insights.

  • Designed and implemented complex automation workflows using n8n
  • Developed AI-powered analysis agents for market and audience research
  • Integrated multiple APIs and AI services into automated workflows
  • Built automated market, competitor, and target audience analysis pipelines
  • Leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) for information summarization, classification, and prioritization
  • Containerized and deployed the platform using Docker

Technologies: n8n, AI Agents, OpenAI APIs, Prompt Engineering, LLMs, Docker, Linux, REST APIs, Webhooks

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Emmanuel L.

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Fullstack Developer · PHP/Laravel, React/Next.js and Java

Stuttgart
Emmanuel L.

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Founder and sole developer

  • Development of a SaaS platform for esports teams with roles, planning, statistics and billing
  • Design and implementation of the architecture, external API integrations and operations
  • Stack: Laravel 13, React 19, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis and Stripe
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German R.

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Freelance Technical Product Owner & AI Product Builder

Stuttgart
German R.

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Freelance Technical Product Owner & AI Product Builder at Neckarshore AI / Freelance

Two complementary tracks: (a) building my own AI products and open-source tools under the Neckarshore AI brand, with a focus on AI-supported multi-agent development processes and documentation automation; (b) freelance support for industrial, logistics, and financial companies in IT-related transformation projects.

Current product portfolio under the Neckarshore AI brand:

  • Omnopsis Documenter — AI-powered documentation engine: generates compliance, technical, and release documentation from Git, Jira, and Confluence. 500+ automated tests, 100+ API endpoints, RBAC, monitoring stack.
  • TrustScope — trust analysis for public GitHub repos: deterministic three-pillar report (Security & Supply Chain, Governance, Community) based on OpenSSF Scorecard, with constructive fix suggestions instead of a single misleading score.
  • md-viewer — dependency-free Markdown viewer for macOS (Finder Quick Action) and web, split view of rendered document and raw text.
  • Obsidian Vault Autopilot — AI-supported vault automation for Obsidian × Claude Code: sorts the inbox, renames notes, enriches frontmatter.
  • Phonesis Voice Bank — voice archive for families, hospices, and cultural archives (guided recordings, inheritable archive, optional voice cloning); currently in the GDPR compliance phase (Art. 9, biometric data).
  • Multi-Agent Development Process — 12+ specialized agents (architecture, implementation, security, refactoring, marketing) with structured handoff protocol, parallel execution, and automated quality assurance — powers the entire product development.
  • Freelance consulting: Technical Product Ownership for production, logistics, and compliance/AML systems; steering international rollouts including test, cutover, and change management.

Stack: NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis/BullMQ, Next.js, Claude Code (Opus), Docker, GitHub Actions, Vercel

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Maik S.

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Senior Software Engineer – Java, Spring, Microservices, Cloud, Docker, BPM and Telematics Projects

Erdmannhausen
Maik S.
  • Development of a new generation of Spring Boot microservices for an archiving system on OpenShift, monitoring, security analyses

Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Vaadin, OpenShift 4.x, Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, Git/Github, GitHub Copilot, GitOps, CI/CD, Kargo/ArgoCD

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Ivan G.

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Technical Lead

Stuttgart
Ivan G.

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Technical Lead at Porsche Digital GmbH

  • Contributed to the design of the new financial services integration layer and moderated the architectural discussions
  • Oversaw the security concept and approval of the application
  • Prepared infrastructure setup and best practices for the Kotlin backend
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Dirk P.

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Freelance Cyber Defense Lead & KRITIS/NIS2 Consultant | AI Security Architect

Stuttgart
Dirk P.

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Freelance Cyber Defense Lead & KRITIS/NIS2 Consultant | AI Security Architect at Self-Employed

  • Situation: Increasing demand for privacy-compliant AI solutions for clients in the KRITIS and mid-market sector that need to analyze sensitive media content (audio, video, documents) without sending data to public cloud LLMs.

  • Task: Design, deployment, and secure operation of a fully self-hosted AI infrastructure including a custom-built digital management platform for automated media analysis.

  • Action: Architected and implemented a multi-tier platform on hardened Proxmox infrastructure with frontend (Nuxt 3, Vue 3, TypeScript, Tailwind 4), backend (Laravel 13, PHP 8.4, Sanctum), data storage (PostgreSQL 16, MongoDB 7), caching/queuing (Redis 7, Laravel Queue), AI workers (Python 3.11, Whisper, DeepFace, Librosa), scheduling (Laravel Scheduler/Cron), and local LLMs (Gemma, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, LLaMA, Phi) via OpenWebUI with segmented network access, API hardening, and audit logging following BSI recommendations.

  • Result: Fully GDPR-compliant, on-premises AI platform with zero data leakage to third parties.

  • Task: Overall responsibility as an external Head of Cyber Security / CISO-as-a-Service for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of ISMS according to ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz, and NIS2.

  • Action: Built and managed Cyber Defense Centers (CDC) with SOC operations, integrated SIEM solutions (Splunk, Graylog), established risk-based vulnerability management (Qualys, Nessus, OpenVAS), and conducted regular infrastructure, application, and physical penetration tests.

  • Result: Audit-ready ISMS for multiple clients and a 60% reduction in critical vulnerabilities within 90 days.

  • Task: Design and execution of NIS2 assessments and operational roll-out plans for KRITIS operators.

  • Action: Developed an online assessment tool for automated identification of individual weakness profiles, implemented ISMS optimizations, penetration testing, awareness programs, GRC suite deployment, and delivered C-level presentations.

  • Result: Accelerated the consulting process by 50% and successfully prepared multiple clients for NIS2 compliance.

  • Task: Incident commander for crisis response, forensics, and business recovery in ransomware attacks and APT campaigns.

  • Action: Coordinated with state and federal police (LKA, BKA), performed forensic analysis (OSForensics, Wireshark, Kali Linux), executed disaster recovery and BCM strategies, and developed BTC extortion response strategies.

  • Result: 100% recovery rate within defined RTO windows and sustainable post-incident security architectures.

  • Action: Planned, built, and operated a hardened multi-VM infrastructure (Proxmox, 15+ VMs) with web and mail servers, Graylog, OPNsense firewalls, CRM/ERP and LLM instances, network segmentation, DDoS mitigation, automated patch management, and backup strategies.

  • Result: >99.5% uptime over 20+ years and zero compromises.

  • Action: Designed coordinated phishing campaigns with five levels of difficulty, developed e-trainings and webinars in a PDCA cycle, and led red and blue teams.

  • Result: Phishing click rate reduced from 35% to under 5% within three campaign cycles.

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Christian S.

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Research Associate – AI Consultant

Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Christian S.

Last position:

Research Associate – AI Consultant at Fraunhofer IAO

  • Development of NLP and LLM POCs for use in manufacturing companies
  • Application of advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze production data and develop customized data pipelines for quality assurance
  • Design and management of the IAO foundational seminar on AI in industry, including practical training modules
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Robin S.

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Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer

Stuttgart
Robin S.

Last position:

Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer at Media-Saturn-Holding GmbH

  • Implementing applications with Kotlin and Ktor as microservices
  • Using MongoDB in the MongoDB Atlas cloud
  • Asynchronous communication of services via Google Pub/Sub
  • Using Kotest and MockK for unit tests
  • Developing an administration frontend with TypeScript, React and Express.js
  • Provisioning environments in GCP using Terraform
  • Implementing CI/CD processes with GitHub Actions
  • Operating scalable production and test environments in GCP with Kubernetes, Helm and Flux CD
  • Monitoring environments with Prometheus and Grafana
  • Providing BI data in the Google BigQuery data warehouse

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Statistics of experts using PostgreSQL

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

19 years (Germany: 17 years)

PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart have 19 years of professional experience on average. It is 2 years more than in Germany, where the average stands at 17 years.

Position duration

1.6 years (Germany: 5.1 years)

PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart stay in a single position for 1.6 years on average. It is 3.5 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 5.1 years.

Positions per freelancer

14 (Germany: 12)

PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart have completed 14 positions on average over the course of their careers. It is 2 more than in Germany, where the average stands at 12.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Top industries

Information Technology, Automotive, Manufacturing

PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart are most in demand in Information Technology, Automotive, and Manufacturing.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

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

Bachelor's degree or higher

96% (Germany: 91%)

96% of PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 5% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 91%.

Master's degree or higher

57% (Germany: 59%)

57% of PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart hold at least a Master's degree. It is 2% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 59%.

Certifications per freelancer

3 (Germany: 2)

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

Most common languages

German, English, Spanish

PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart most often speak German, English, and Spanish.

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 97%)

100% of PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart 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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4% of PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart charge less than €400 per day.
48% of PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart charge between €400 and €800 per day.
40% of PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
8% of PostgreSQL experts in Stuttgart charge €1600 or more per day.
<€400 €400-​800 €800-​1200 €1600+

The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Stuttgart 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 Stuttgart using PostgreSQL

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

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Daily rate avg. 798 €
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 768 €
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 (92%)
  • Automotive (72%)
  • Manufacturing (60%)
  • Banking and Finance (52%)
  • Transportation (40%)
  • Aerospace and Defense (36%)
  • Healthcare (32%)
  • Insurance (32%)

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. Its strong SQL support, transactional consistency and extensibility make it suitable for customer platforms, financial systems, commerce applications and internal tools. Teams also know it as Postgres.

Where it runs

PostgreSQL supports workloads ranging from transactional applications to reporting and geospatial services. Companies use it for:

  • Customer and account data with dependable transactions
  • Product catalogues, orders and payment records
  • Analytics pipelines and operational reporting
  • Location-aware applications with PostGIS

Ecosystem and tooling

Strong PostgreSQL specialists work across the database and its surrounding stack. They use SQL, indexing, execution plans, extensions and migration tools, while connecting applications through drivers, ORMs and APIs. Common environments include Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and managed cloud database services.

When expertise matters

Freelance expertise helps when a database has become slow, difficult to change or central to a new product. Specialists can plan schema changes, review data models, migrate from another database and establish backup, recovery and monitoring practices. In Stuttgart, remote collaboration can support local teams in automotive, manufacturing, software and other data-intensive industries.

Delivery and reliability

A capable PostgreSQL professional turns requirements into maintainable database structures and safe release processes. They understand locks, isolation levels, replication, partitioning and connection management, then choose only the complexity the workload needs. They also document decisions and test failure scenarios rather than focusing only on query speed.

Choosing a specialist

Look for evidence of work with production data, not only familiarity with SQL syntax. A useful review covers:

  • Clear reasoning about schemas, constraints and data integrity
  • Practical diagnosis using query plans and monitoring
  • Safe migrations with rollback and recovery options
  • Experience integrating PostgreSQL with the relevant application stack

Ask how the specialist would investigate the current workload, protect sensitive data and measure improvement. That conversation reveals more than a list of tools.

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Frequently asked questions

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

PostgreSQL is used for transactional applications, customer records, commerce systems, reporting and data-heavy APIs. Its relational model, strong consistency and extensibility also suit geospatial work, analytics pipelines and systems that require dependable data integrity.

PostgreSQL generally offers broader SQL capabilities, richer data types and deeper extensibility, while MySQL is also widely used for web applications and straightforward transactional workloads. The better choice depends on the data model, existing skills, operational environment and application requirements.

A strong PostgreSQL specialist often works with SQL, data modelling, Linux, Docker, cloud infrastructure and application integration. Useful adjacent knowledge includes an ORM or database driver, migration frameworks, observability, backup design and security controls.

The required depth depends on the risk and workload. A simple application may need solid schema and query skills, while a migration, high-volume system or recovery redesign calls for a PostgreSQL professional who has handled production incidents, upgrades and performance investigations.

PostgreSQL work is often well suited to remote collaboration because schema reviews, query analysis and infrastructure changes can be handled through shared repositories and secure environments. On-site sessions in Stuttgart can still help with workshops, legacy-system discovery or coordination with operations teams.

Ask the PostgreSQL freelancer to explain a real performance diagnosis, migration or recovery plan in clear terms. Check whether they use query plans, constraints, monitoring and tested rollback procedures, rather than relying on unverified tuning advice.

PostgreSQL is often a strong fit when relationships, transactions, constraints and flexible but queryable data matter. A NoSQL database may be preferable for a specialised access pattern or very flexible document model, but the decision should follow workload and consistency needs rather than fashion.

An excellent PostgreSQL professional connects database decisions to business risk and application behaviour. They make trade-offs visible, protect data during change, test recovery, communicate clearly and leave behind documentation that the team can maintain.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Stuttgart, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects is 100 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 798 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Stuttgart, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 57% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Stuttgart, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.6 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Stuttgart, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (28%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Stuttgart, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Automotive (72%), and Manufacturing (60%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Stuttgart, Germany who have used PostgreSQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (68%).

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