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William N.
Last position:
Power BI Solutions Architect/Engineer & AI Consultant at AVERDUNG GmbH
- Redesign of the company’s BI infrastructure: replacement of a fragmented landscape of manually maintained Excel solutions and CSV imports with a centralized Power BI environment using a unified data model as the company-wide single source of truth
- Consolidation of previously isolated reporting logic in a central semantic model – elimination of redundant files, manual data transfers and inconsistent metrics across departments
- Forecasting & Planning: Design and implementation of company-wide liquidity planning in Power BI – from business logic to a fully automated, data-source-driven planning model replacing the previous manual Excel process; enabling rolling forecasts and continuously up-to-date cash flow transparency for management
- Optimization of existing Power BI dashboards in terms of performance, structure and analytical value using an AI-native approach
- Analysis and improvement of the data model, including data quality analyses, data cleansing and consistent modeling using Star Schema, DAX and Power Query
- Incident & Anomaly Analysis: Identification, investigation and explanation of data anomalies, including root-cause analysis and specific recommendations for action
- AI Solution Architecture: Connecting Business Central and Power BI to LangDock via MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI-supported data usage
- Development of a historical data layer as a basis for trend and time-series analyses
- AI-supported automation: Design and development of AI skills, agents, loops and processes for the automated analysis and interpretation of reports
- Automated reporting workflow: Setup of scheduled, automated email delivery of AI-generated analyses and recommendations to stakeholders
- Gathering and documentation of business requirements and coordination with business departments and IT as part of requirements engineering / product owner activities
- Breaking down overall requirements into clearly defined work packages and tasks
- Definition, prioritization and management of milestones throughout the entire project lifecycle
Tools: POWER BI, M365, Copilot Studio, MIRO, Microsoft Business Central, Microsoft Fabric, Claude AI, ChatGPT, LangDock, MS VS Code
Fadi S.
Last position:
Data Scientist at E-Commerce
- Designed and developed a production-ready data platform based on Microsoft Fabric for an e-commerce company
- Built a scalable Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) with Lakehouse and Delta Lake as the foundation for analytics and AI applications
- Developed a metadata-driven ETL platform with PySpark and a generic Incremental Loading Framework (SQL Server → Bronze → Silver → Gold)
- Developed reusable components for Microsoft Fabric Notebooks to standardize data integration, transformation, and validation
- Implemented automated data pipelines including monitoring, logging, error handling, and Delta MERGE strategies for stable production operations
- Built a business layer architecture for reporting, data warehousing, and reusable data products
- Integrated heterogeneous data sources via SQL Server, REST APIs, Amazon SP API, and Google Analytics 4
- Worked closely with business departments to analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable data architectures
Technologies: Microsoft Fabric, PySpark, Python, SQL Server, Delta Lake, Lakehouse, OneLake, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, REST APIs, Amazon SP-API, Google Analytics 4
Vili D.
Last position:
Technical Lead, Data Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Consulting
Optimized the data architecture (Medallion) to better decouple processing steps and improve transparency and reproducibility
Ensured the technical quality of data processing in Databricks by introducing schema enforcement, data quality checks, and a structured data architecture
Pipeline orchestration with Azure Data Factory
Improved and automated the development and deployment process by integrating Git and GitHub Actions
Technical leadership of the Data Engineering team (3 employees)
Led workshops to optimize and stabilize the data platform and development process
Collected and prioritized new requests and maintained the product backlog
Technologies: Microsoft Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory), Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark), Python, SQL, Git, Confluence, Power BI, Power Apps, Dataverse, MS Sharepoint, Mural
Hachem S.
Last position:
Machine Learning & BI Lecturer at EU Business School
- Taught ML, BI, and Big Data to Master's students.
Tech: Python, Power BI, SQL, ML, SnowflakeDB, databricks, MS Fabric, MongoDB, LLM
Peter S.
Last position:
Senior ML Engineer & AI Researcher at Anonymous Client
Project: Defect Generation on Test-Bench Images of Metal Surfaces Environment: Automated Visual Inspection (AVI), Metallurgy & Manufacturing
- Objective & Implementation: Designed, architected, and trained Generative Adversarial Networks (Pix2PixHD / SPADE) for image-to-image transformation. Targeted generation of synthetic material defects (e.g., cracks, inclusions, scale) on rough metal surfaces under real test-bench lighting conditions for privacy-compliant and efficient dataset expansion (data augmentation).
- Technical Design: Implemented robust Generative AI and computer vision pipelines in Python and PyTorch. Used semantic segmentation approaches for mask-controlled defect synthesis and subsequent evaluation with EfficientDet object detection models.
- Business Impact: Massive dataset upscaling (10x) without time-consuming and costly physical test-bench runs, while significantly improving the detection performance of automated inspection systems.
Technologies & Skills Used: Python | PyTorch | SPADE | Pix2PixHD | EfficientDet | Machine Learning | Semantic Segmentation | Computer Vision
Alexander Z.
Last position:
Senior Data Solutions Engineer at VMware Inc.
- Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
- Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
- Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
- Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.
Michael N.
Last position:
Senior AI Engineer | Forward Deployed Engineer at Tiefbau
- Development of an AI-powered project organization tool for a civil engineering company that intelligently links project, task, tender, schedule, and document data through a knowledge graph.
- Implementation of AI features for document analysis, information extraction, context-based assistance, and voice-based data capture based on Microsoft Azure AI, reducing administrative effort, making information available faster, and supporting project teams in decision-making.
- Tech stack: Python, React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Claude Code, Codex, Graphify, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Entra ID, Docker, Git, CI/CD.
Mirza K.
Last position:
Agentic Automation and a RAG system
- This project involved extraction of intelligence data to support report writing for a company that provides geopolitical, global, commercial intelligence. The data have been gathered from a number of resources (interview transcripts, online data, internal documents), and then a knowledge base has been build from it. This was the basis of a complex RAG system, that was evaluated against a golden dataset. Agents have been used to find out the contradicting intelligence, the statements supporting each other, and to store back the generated knowledge.
Used: Python, RAG, LangGraph, LangChain, deepeval, MCP
Murad K.
Last position:
Senior AI/ML Engineer at Quantistry GmbH
- Led end-to-end delivery of ML/AI applications for the QuantistryLab simulation platform, from requirements definition and solution design to development, testing, deployment, and production support, coordinating efforts across back-end, DevOps, and ML teams
- Designed and implemented a compound search system with an open-weights LLM, the Pydantic AI agent framework, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exposing it through FastAPI endpoints
- Deployed and configured vLLM-based LLM serving on Kubernetes
- Built CI/CD pipelines and Helm charts to automate deployments across staging and production environments
- Instrumented the search system with OpenTelemetry spans and traces, integrating with the Honeycomb observability platform to monitor component-level latency and functional errors
- Developed a custom evaluation dataset and implemented evaluations for retrieval relevance, answer correctness, tool-call accuracy, and end-to-end task success
- Reduced infrared spectrum prediction time by 83% (from 60 to 10 minutes) by replacing a quantum-mechanical model with a pretrained graph neural network; fine-tuned the model using PyTorch, built and containerized the inference pipeline with Docker, and integrated it into the platform
- Implemented an MLflow model registry with MinIO-backed artifact storage
- Advised sales and science teams on ML/AI applications for prospective client projects, providing technical expertise to shape proposed solutions and prototypes
Technologies: AWS, Hetzner, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, vLLM, Pydantic AI, MCP, Qwen, Llama 3, MLflow, MinIO, GitHub Actions, Python, FastAPI, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, PyTorch, Polars, pytest
Ajay Kumar D.
Last position:
Senior BI and Analytics Engineer at Novartis
- Led enterprise reporting modernization by migrating legacy SSRS reporting solutions to Power BI, supporting 500+ business users while ensuring full GDPR/DSGVO compliance.
- Designed and optimized Power BI and Microsoft Fabric semantic models using star schema, dimensional modeling, advanced DAX, and performance optimization techniques, reducing query latency by 25%.
- Delivered 20+ executive and operational dashboards featuring KPI scorecards, drill-through, bookmarks, and row-level security, improving reporting efficiency by 20%.
- Enabled self-service analytics through governed Power BI datasets, dataflows, and gateway architecture, increasing business-led reporting adoption by 35%.
- Configured an incremental refresh policy and query folding for a 50+ million row sales dataset, reducing daily report refresh times by 85%.
- Deployed automated ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, and Snowflake, reducing reporting delivery timelines by 40% through workflow automation.
- Spearheaded Microsoft Fabric analytics modernization initiatives including lakehouse architecture, OneLake integration, and centralized data platform development, reducing data latency from 2 hours to 20 minutes.
- Translated business requirements from 15+ stakeholders into scalable Power BI semantic models and dashboards, improving reporting consistency and reducing ad-hoc reporting requests by 25%.
- Applied Microsoft Copilot and generative AI tools to accelerate SQL development, DAX authoring, technical documentation, and testing activities, reducing development effort by approximately 15 hours per week.
Hervé T.
Last position:
Senior Data Engineer at Schweizerische Post AG
Tools: Fabric, AWS, dbt, Power BI, SQL, DWH, R, Python
- Supported customers in implementing an architecture design for extracting and preparing data
- Planned the design and implementation of the BI and DWH platform
- Ensured the scalability and performance of the data platform
Stephan F.
Last position:
AI & Data Engineer - Azure Enterprise AI and Knowledge Engineering at IB Schlegel - King
Designed and developed an Azure-based AI and data platform transforming distributed project documents into searchable, structured knowledge for an enterprise AI assistant. Combined incremental document processing, hybrid keyword/vector retrieval, knowledge graph extraction, and conversational AI for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Implemented Python document-processing pipelines for PDF, Word, Outlook and text files; Azure Cosmos DB lifecycle management; Azure AI Search; Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI; identity-aware retrieval with Microsoft Entra ID; project authorization; a TypeScript Microsoft Agents SDK agent; Pulumi infrastructure; resilient scheduling, retry and diagnostic tooling. Technology stack: Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Pydantic, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Cosmos DB, Blob/Table Storage, Container Apps/Jobs, Service Bus, Key Vault, Entra ID, Docker, Pulumi, pytest, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Philipp G.
Last position:
Data Scientist & ML Engineer at Data-Science Factory GmbH
- Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
- Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
- Development of LLM and NLP models
- Creation of interactive reports
- Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects
Ajay C.
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.
Alexander B.
Last position:
Senior Data Engineer at RWE AG
Architected and maintained data products for renewable energy operations, covering wind turbine, grid-meter, and weather data. Built scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure Databricks using Delta Lake (bronze/silver/gold layers) and processed data in various formats, including structured and semi-structured data. Contributed to a data quality framework supporting table and column documentation, outlier detection, and completeness metrics across all datasets within a data product. In addition, implemented a DORA KPI Databricks dashboard used across all data products. Optimized CI/CD processes in Azure DevOps to streamline deployment across development, test, and production environments.
Technology stack: Azure Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Azure Data Lake, APIs, Dremio, Azure DevOps, YAML, Git, Databricks Workflows, Application Insights, Terraform, OpenAI API, Codex, LLM-assisted workflows
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Statistics of experts using PySpark
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
14 years

Position duration
2.8 years

Positions per freelancer
10

Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Research and Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
96%
Master's degree or higher
74%
Doctorate
14%

Certifications per freelancer
4

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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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.
PySpark 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 (88%)
- Professional Services (45%)
- Automotive (43%)
- Banking and Finance (42%)
- Education (39%)
- Manufacturing (37%)
- Healthcare (35%)
- Energy (31%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What PySpark does
PySpark is the Python interface for Apache Spark, a distributed computing framework for processing large datasets across clusters. It lets teams use Python to transform, join and aggregate data while Spark manages parallel execution, memory and fault tolerance. PySpark appears in batch analytics, data preparation, streaming and machine learning workflows.
Core data workflows
PySpark specialists turn raw information into reliable datasets for analytics and operational systems. Typical assignments include:
- Designing ETL and ELT pipelines for structured and semi-structured data
- Cleaning, joining and aggregating data with DataFrame and SQL APIs
- Processing event streams with Structured Streaming
- Preparing feature datasets for machine learning
- Migrating slow single-machine scripts to distributed Spark jobs
Ecosystem and tooling
Effective PySpark work combines Python with the wider Apache Spark ecosystem. Professionals use Spark SQL, DataFrames, RDDs, Structured Streaming and MLlib where appropriate, alongside cloud storage, relational databases, Kafka and orchestration tools. Familiarity with Delta Lake, Parquet, notebooks, Git and CI pipelines supports maintainable delivery.
When companies need specialists
Companies usually bring in freelance PySpark expertise when data volumes, processing time or pipeline complexity outgrow existing scripts. Common triggers include a lakehouse initiative, a streaming use case, a cloud migration or a need to standardize scattered transformations. In Germany, remote collaboration is common, while regulated industries may also require on-site workshops and clear communication in English or German.
What strong professionals deliver
Strong specialists model data carefully, select suitable partitioning and avoid unnecessary shuffles. They write testable transformations, explain execution plans and monitor job health rather than treating Spark as a faster Python script. Their deliverables can include production pipelines, reusable data models, deployment workflows, documentation and operational runbooks.
How to assess fit
Look for evidence of complete PySpark delivery, not only notebook experiments. Ask how the professional handled skewed joins, schema changes, late events, retries, access controls and cost or performance constraints. A useful technical review covers data quality checks, observability, cluster configuration and handover to the team that will operate the pipeline.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about PySpark, in one place.
PySpark is used to process and transform large datasets across distributed computing clusters. Companies use it for batch ETL, data lake preparation, event stream processing, analytics tables and machine learning feature preparation.
PySpark distributes work across a cluster, while pandas is primarily designed for data that fits on one machine. Pandas can be simpler for small datasets and exploratory analysis, but PySpark is better suited to repeatable pipelines with substantial volume or demanding processing windows.
PySpark is the Python API for Apache Spark. The underlying Spark engine runs distributed jobs, while the Python interface lets teams define transformations and queries using familiar Python, DataFrame and Spark SQL patterns.
A strong PySpark freelancer often also understands Python testing, SQL, data modeling and cloud storage. Experience with Kafka, Airflow or another orchestrator, Docker, CI pipelines, Delta Lake and monitoring can be important for production delivery.
The right level depends on the workload, architecture and operational risk rather than a fixed number of years. A small transformation may need solid Spark SQL knowledge, while a production platform benefits from a PySpark specialist who has handled partitioning, skew, streaming reliability and deployment.
Yes. PySpark projects are often well suited to remote work because development, testing and reviews happen in shared repositories and cloud environments. On-site sessions can still help with architecture workshops, security discussions or coordination with German-speaking stakeholders.
Review whether the PySpark solution has clear data contracts, tests, observability and documented failure handling. Ask the specialist to explain execution plans, partition choices, shuffle behavior and how the pipeline responds to schema changes or late data.
PySpark may be unnecessary for small datasets, simple transformations or interactive work that runs comfortably on one machine. A specialist should compare it with SQL, pandas, Polars or a database-native approach and choose Spark only when its distributed execution and ecosystem provide a clear benefit.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used PySpark in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 750 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used PySpark in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 74% hold at least a Master's degree, and 14% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used PySpark in their recent projects have 14 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used PySpark in their recent projects are English (98%), German (97%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used PySpark in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Professional Services (45%), and Automotive (43%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used PySpark in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Business Intelligence (87%), and Product Development (75%).
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