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William N.

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Senior/Lead Business Analyst & AI Workflow Consultant | Requirements Engineering | BI | Workflow Automation | Claude Code

Berlin
William N.

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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 featuring a unified data model as the company-wide single source of truth
  • Consolidation of previously isolated reporting logic into a central semantic model – eliminating redundant files, manual data transfers, and inconsistent metrics between 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; enables 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 concrete recommendations for action
  • AI solution architecture: Connecting Business Central and Power BI to LangDock via MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI-supported data usage
  • Creation 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 distribution 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

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Stefan O.

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AI Product Leader

Berlin
Stefan O.

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Founder at ProtocolEngine.io

Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.

  • Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
  • Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
  • Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
  • Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
  • Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
  • Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.

Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.

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Kiriakos K.

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Platform Engineering Tech Lead / Architect

Nickenich
Kiriakos K.

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Tech Lead / Architect : OTTO API Platform at OTTO

Maturing their API practices on both a business and technology level. My role covers strategy, architecture, developer advocacy as well as hands-on software engineering, enabling both technical teams and business leadership to adopt and act on API-centric principles effectively. Coincidentally, we also establish GitOps, DX and platform best practices with this project.

Highlights:

  • Aligning executives with the initiative by clarifying strategy, replacing misconceptions and myths with facts, clarifying the value of existing assets and enabling informed decision-making
  • Formulating a way forward for API Lifecycle Management at OTTO
  • Driving platform progress and fostering developer engagement by hands-on engineering work towards strategic goals

API Lifecycle Management, Team Topologies, Organizational Evolution, Regulatory, Platform Advocate, Developer Platform, Communities of Practice, Terraform, Kotlin, Kafka, Kong, WSO2, Apigee, Gravitee, Backstage, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, API Design, AWS, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Redocly, reactive programming, CDC, Golang, Gin, GitOps, DX (developer experience), stakeholder management, roadmaps, workshops, discovery.

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Eric B.

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Quality Manager / Test Manager / Senior Test Analyst / Senior Data Analyst / Statistical Programmer

Kelkheim (Taunus)
Eric B.

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Quality Assurance Manager (QSV) at Federal Employment Agency

  • Supporting the International Web Presence of the BA (IntWeb) project in the area of quality management, with the aim of taking responsibility for the quality of processes and project results while considering BA standards. The main objectives of the project are to give professionals abroad a quick overview of their opportunities for moving to Germany and to enable them to take the necessary steps consistently and with digital support by providing access to services.

  • Defining the general guidelines in the QA handbook

  • Summarising test results in QA reports for PLA

  • Analysing project results for improvement opportunities

  • Quality management of requirements analysis (particularly processes, methods, and tools)

  • Ensuring compliance with SERA requirements

  • Creating a cross-project test concept

  • Agreeing on sprint completion reports

  • Formal review of work results in accordance with requirements and/or the project plan

  • Contact person for internal audit, external audits by auditors, or BRH (Federal Court of Audit)

  • Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, GitLab, Kubernetes

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Toralf C.

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IT Consultant in PKI Software Development

Hohen Neuendorf
Toralf C.

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IT Consultant in PKI Software Development at BWI

  • Implementation of a full-stack application with Angular as frontend framework and Java as backend language
  • Use of the Swagger OpenAPI specification for REST communication between frontend and backend applications
  • Control of a card printer via the Nexus Card SDK framework
  • Design and implementation of card management software with web interface and JavaFX module for printer monitoring
  • Use of Cucumber tests for test automation and creation of test artifacts for testing outside the development environment
  • Use of Wireshark for network investigations to analyze the API of a third-party product and to check the REST API of the self-developed software
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Dmitry P.

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Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst

Berlin
Dmitry P.

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Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst at Freelance

  • Marketing Strategy: Lead the end-to-end analysis and evaluation of cross-channel marketing campaigns across the entire Customer Journey. My focus is identifying optimization potential and deriving clear, actionable recommendations that drive measurable business impact.
  • Data Science & AI: Advanced predictive modeling (Churn, LTV), market basket analysis, clustering, and real-time AI-powered audience discovery utilizing RAG/LLMs.
  • Marketing Analytics & Measurement: End-to-end attribution analysis, Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), audience segmentation, conversion path analysis, and A/B testing across all major platforms.
  • Data Engineering & Reporting: Designing and managing robust, multi-platform data pipelines (BigQuery, GCP) for data consolidation, automated dashboard generation, and critical API integrations.
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Michael N.

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Senior ML Engineer | AI Engineer | Problem Solver

Eichenau
Michael N.

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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.
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Paul T.

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Specialized in: Project Management Office (PMO) Project Services for Telecoms, IT & Energy sectors

Munich
Paul T.

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Senior Project Manager Networks Division at Samsung Electronics GmbH

  • Managed the successful overall Trial and Commercial deployment of OpenRAN technology and swap-out of legacy SRAN for 2 mobile network operators in Germany.
  • End-to-End Project life cycle governance and coordination of multiple Workstream leads i.e. Operations, Performance, Site Solution Management, Design, SW Delivery, Integration & Implementation, OSS Tools, 3rd-party Resource Support.
  • Project planning to cover major milestones by delivering roadmap alignment in compliance with the German Network Regulatory Agency (BNetzA), as a vendor.
  • Provided pre/post-Sales support to the Accounts Team for RfP/RfQ submissions.
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Sarvesh L.

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Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration

Ratingen
Sarvesh L.

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Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration at Harz University

  • Created data pipelines and visualization tools to support sustainable energy decision-making
  • Developed insights that could optimize renewable energy deployment and grid integration strategies
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Sascha S.

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Freelance Project Manager / Interim Chief of Staff

Berlin
Sascha S.

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Project Manager & Interim Manager at Self-employed

  • Advising executives on steering strategic initiatives and complex programs
  • Focus on structuring, decision support, and implementation under uncertainty
  • Most recently supporting a leading consulting firm on a defense sales project for the Ukrainian market
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Ashwin P.

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Freelance Data Scientist

Dortmund
Ashwin P.

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Freelance Data Scientist at Mercor Intelligence

  • Architected and deployed end-to-end machine learning pipelines across classification and prediction datasets, ensuring robustness and reproducibility through MLOps best practices.
  • Contributed directly to LLM model output accuracy improvement by designing and engineering specialised prompts grounded in end-to-end ML and SciML pipeline logic.
  • Developed training data for large language models by formulating coding problems that models could not resolve and subsequently documenting the correct solutions.
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Florian B.

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Program & Integration Lead (AI, Data & Analytics Transformation)

Florian B.

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Project Management / PMO Consultant

PMO & Project Organization Blueprint for Restructuring

Renewable Energy / Solar Equipment

Technologies / Methods: PMO setup, KPI tracking, project organization, Jira, Confluence

  • Developed measures to improve management control during a restruct...
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Gwen G.

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Senior Consultant

Leipzig
Gwen G.

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Senior Ruby on Rails & DevOps Developer at Sapiens

Further development of a software solution for managing audit applications and audit notifications according to §106d SGB V for the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Hamburg.

  • Developed numerous features, optimised performance, refactored code and analysed errors
  • Refactored the development container setup
  • Optimised the Gitlab-CI build pipeline
  • Introduced improvements to the team workflow
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Bardiya B.

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Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer

Frankfurt am Main
Bardiya B.

Last position:

Data Scientist at Rewe Digital GmbH

Statistical Forecasting Algorithm

  • Improvement of an statistical probabilistic forecasting algorithm for sales + evaluation
  • Migration from R/On-premise to Python/Snowflake
  • Productionalization on Snowflake in cooperation with data engineers & DevOps

Monitoring Dashboard

  • Data engineering for preparation & provisioning of necessary data/resources on Snowflake
  • Development & deployment of a Streamlit dashboard in Snowflake

ML-based Probabilistic Forecasting on Vertex AI

  • Development of a ML-based probabilistic forecasting algorithm from scratch
  • Implementation of MLOps pipeline in Kubeflow on Google Cloud Vertex AI

Tech Stack: Python, Snowflake/Snowpark, R, Streamlit, Gitlab/Gitlab CICD, Terraform, Google Cloud, Vertex AI (aiplatform SDK, gcloud CLI, feature store, model registry, etc), kubeflow

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Statistics of experts using R

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

13 years

R experts have 13 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

2.7 years

R experts stay in a single position for 2.7 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

9

R experts have completed 9 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

R experts have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development.

Top industries

Information Technology, Education, Professional Services

R experts are most in demand in Information Technology, Education, and Professional Services.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Research and Development

R experts earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Research and Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

99%

99% of R experts hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

82%

82% of R experts hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

25%

25% of R experts have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

3

R experts hold 3 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

English, German, French

R experts most often speak English, German, and French.

Speak two or more languages

100%

100% of R experts speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 16 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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9% of R experts charge less than €400 per day.
42% of R experts charge between €400 and €800 per day.
41% of R experts charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
4% of R experts charge between €1200 and €1600 per day.
4% of R experts charge €1600 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology 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.

Average rates of experts using R

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

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Daily rate avg. 725 €

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

R 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 (65%)
  • Education (47%)
  • Professional Services (45%)
  • Banking and Finance (40%)
  • Automotive (31%)
  • Healthcare (31%)
  • Manufacturing (28%)
  • Retail (26%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

What R is used for

R is an open-source programming language and environment built for statistics, data analysis and visualisation. Companies use it to explore datasets, test hypotheses, create forecasts and communicate findings through reproducible reports. It supports work from early analysis to production-facing analytical applications.

Core capabilities

R handles data preparation, statistical testing, regression, classification, time-series analysis and experimental design. Its graphics tools create precise charts for exploratory work and executive reporting. With Shiny, teams can turn analytical logic into interactive web applications without rebuilding the work in another language.

Ecosystem and tooling

The R ecosystem includes RStudio, Posit products, the tidyverse, data.table, ggplot2, Quarto and R Markdown. Packages extend R for machine learning, spatial analysis, survey research, finance and bioinformatics. Strong specialists also work with SQL, APIs, Git, cloud storage, relational databases and scheduled data pipelines.

Typical project work

  • Clean and combine data from files, databases and APIs
  • Build statistical models, forecasts and validation workflows
  • Create dashboards and interactive Shiny applications
  • Produce reproducible reports with R Markdown or Quarto
  • Translate analytical results into decision-ready visualisations

R is common in research, healthcare, finance, marketing, manufacturing and public-sector analysis. It fits projects where statistical transparency, repeatable methods and visual communication matter as much as raw processing speed.

When to bring in expertise

Companies often need freelance expertise when an internal team has valuable data but lacks statistical depth, or when an analysis must become a maintainable reporting workflow. External support is also useful during migration from spreadsheets, validation of existing models or delivery of a Shiny application. Clear goals, data access and agreed output formats help the work start efficiently.

What strong professionals bring

A strong R specialist combines sound statistical reasoning with disciplined software practices. They question data quality, choose methods that match the decision being made and explain uncertainty without hiding it. Look for organised scripts, tested transformations, documented assumptions, reproducible environments and visualisations that communicate one clear message. Experience with stakeholder review and handover is equally important when the analysis must remain useful after delivery.

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Frequently asked questions

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

Companies use R for statistical analysis, data preparation, forecasting, visualisation and reporting. It is also used to create Shiny dashboards and reproducible research workflows in areas such as finance, healthcare, marketing and scientific research.

R is especially strong for statistical methods, specialist analytical packages and publication-quality visualisation. Python is often preferred for broader software systems and machine learning deployment, while the right choice depends on the existing stack, the team’s skills and the required deliverable.

An effective R programming language specialist often works with SQL, Git, APIs, relational databases and cloud storage. Skills with tidyverse, data.table, ggplot2, Shiny, Quarto and R Markdown are useful, as are sound statistical methods and clear communication.

The required depth depends on the work. A simple report may need solid data preparation and visualisation skills, while regulated analysis, forecasting or production Shiny applications call for stronger statistical judgement, testing and documentation. Assess the specialist against the actual methods, data sources and handover needs.

Yes. GNU R projects can usually be delivered remotely when data access, environments and review processes are clearly arranged. On-site work may help when the analysis depends on restricted systems, workshops with stakeholders or close collaboration with research and operational teams.

RStudio is an integrated development environment that supports R scripts, notebooks, debugging, package work and visualisation. It helps specialists organise analysis, but it is not a replacement for sound statistical design, version control or reproducible project practices.

Ask for a clear explanation of the data checks, chosen methods, assumptions and validation approach. High-quality R work is reproducible, documented and tested, with visualisations that match the audience and results that can be reviewed without relying on undocumented manual steps.

R with Shiny is a good fit when users need to explore approved data, adjust inputs or view model results through an interactive interface. It works well for analytical dashboards and internal tools, but teams should also plan access control, performance, maintenance and deployment.

The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used R in their recent projects is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 725 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers who have used R in their recent projects, 99% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 82% hold at least a Master's degree, and 25% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers who have used R in their recent projects have 13 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.

The most common languages among freelancers who have used R in their recent projects are English (100%), German (99%), and French (24%).

The most common industries among freelancers who have used R in their recent projects are Information Technology (65%), Education (47%), and Professional Services (45%).

The most common business areas among freelancers who have used R in their recent projects are Information Technology (77%), Business Intelligence (72%), and Product Development (66%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used R

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home all over Germany — available on-site in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and every major business hub, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

In Austria our freelancers and interim experts support companies from Vienna to Graz — on-site where your project needs them, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Across Switzerland our specialists are active in Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Bern — working on-site or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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