
R Experts in Germany
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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
Dany-Armand D.
Last position:
Senior Data Scientist at ibg NDT GmbH
- Investigate the relationship between Eddy Current Testing (ECT) signals and microstructural properties
- Detect latent patterns in ECT data that reflect intrinsic material characteristics
- Develop and validate predictive models for microstructural classification and quantification, using hardness and case depth as benchmarks
- Apply Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling for advanced data analysis
Michael S.
Last position:
Data Analyst, Data Scientist at CompuGroup Medical Deutschland AG, docmetric GmbH
Development of AI and traditional models to analyze medical and patient data, including medication analyses, diagnosis analyses, forecasts, procedure analyses, dosage analyses, comorbidity analyses, prescription analyses, patient potential analyses, referral profile analyses, and prescription analyses. Analyses in the field of Real World Evidence.
Healthcare IT, pharmaceutical industry
Tasks, responsibilities:
- Gathering customer requirements
- Planning the subproject
- Designing and defining KPIs
- Designing and developing models and visualizations of results using customer dashboards
- Developing and implementing data warehouse adaptations
- Deriving recommendations for action
Methods, technologies:
- Simulation
- Artificial intelligence
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Microsoft Power BI
- Amazon Web Services
- Elasticsearch
- PostgreSQL
- Databricks
- Multivariate statistics
Umut G.
Last position:
Data Architect at BA Technology
I am an experienced data engineer specializing in end‑to‑end data integration, cloud DWH architectures, and high‑quality, governed data products.
I delivered following projects and engagements as a freelancer.
- Data Migration of CRM System for AL-FA Objekt Service Gmbh
- Microsoft Software Resales Partnership
I am looking for freelance roles like: Freelance Data Engineer Cloud Data Warehouse Architect Data Modeling & Architecture Consultant MDM & Data Governance Specialist BI & Analytics Developer
Technical Focus Areas
- Data Engineering & Integration: SQL Server/SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter/IDQ, Talend, Kafka, Azure Data Factory – Delta/CDC/ELT patterns, robust pipelines, monitoring/recovery, data lineage & impact analysis, medallion architecture Bronze/Silver/Gold layers
- DWH & Cloud: Azure SQL / Data Lake / Synapse, AWS Redshift/S3, on‑prem SQL/Oracle – scalable data marts with a strong cost/benefit focus.
- Data Modeling: Atomic (Inmon) and Dimensional (Kimball), Data Vault (Linstedt), Domain‑Driven Design, clear lineage & contracts.
- MDM & Governance: Informatica MDM, IBM MDM, stewardship processes, data quality rules, survivorship/XREF, catalog/glossary, SIF/BES/REST publication.
- Analytics/BI: Power BI, SSAS, Cognos – business‑ready, maintainable data products.
Stefan O.
Last position:
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.
Kiriakos K.
Last position:
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.
Eric B.
Last position:
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
Toralf C.
Last position:
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
Fatiha A.
Last position:
Science Coordinator at Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Coordinate a large-scale, DFG-funded research project involving 19 interdisciplinary research groups across multiple institutions, including the MibiNext Graduate School
- Lead project governance and stakeholder communication through structured milestone tracking and reporting to university administration
- Organise and coordinate scientific events, including an international symposium and DFG on-site evaluation, managed invitations, participant communication and event-related enquiries
- Website maintenance and content creation
- Editing, formatting, reviewing, and compilation of abstract book and various documents
- Coordinate logistics, communication, scheduling, and stakeholder engagement across participating institutions
Tungi D.
Last position:
Technical PMO | Delivery Master | LLM-Expert at Stealth - NDA
- Owning RAG, LLM-System, ML-ops-Pipelines for various startups in Insurance, Banking, Energy (KRITIS)
Dmitry P.
Last position:
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.
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.
Nitin B.
Last position:
Financial Analytics Lead at Independent Consultant
Led FP&A tech transformation for a 9-figure business – from resolving legacy technical debt to leading AI-native EPM implementation
- Driving end-to-end FP&A transformation, from architecture redesign through EPM tool selection to rollout
- Ran evaluation of 12+ EPM platforms, from vendor negotiation to selection framework tied to long-term planning
- Diagnosed constraints in financial planning architecture, presented findings to the CFO, and secured executive mandate to redesign FP&A infrastructure from the ground up
Paul T.
Last position:
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.
Florian B.
Last position:
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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Statistics of experts using R
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
13 years

Position duration
2.7 years

Positions per freelancer
9

Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

Top industries
Information Technology, Education, Professional Services

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Research and Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
99%
Master's degree or higher
82%
Doctorate
25%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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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.
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 (46%)
- Professional Services (44%)
- Banking and Finance (40%)
- Automotive (31%)
- Healthcare (30%)
- Manufacturing (28%)
- Retail (26%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
R for statistical computing
R is an open-source programming language and environment for statistical computing, data analysis and visualisation. It supports exploratory work, reproducible research and production reporting across structured and unstructured datasets. Companies use it to turn raw information into evidence for decisions.
Analysis and modelling
R covers the full analytical workflow, from importing and cleaning data to modelling, validation and communication. Specialists work with regression, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, survival analysis and experiment design. They also create reusable functions and documented notebooks so results can be reviewed and extended.
Packages and tooling
The R ecosystem includes the tidyverse for data preparation and analysis, ggplot2 for visualisation, and Shiny for interactive web applications. Experts may also use R Markdown or Quarto for reports, data.table for high-volume transformations, and renv for package management. Strong work connects these tools with Git, SQL, APIs, cloud storage and automated workflows.
Where companies use it
R appears in research-heavy and data-intensive settings, including healthcare, life sciences, finance, manufacturing, marketing and public services. Typical deliverables include:
- Statistical models and forecasting pipelines
- Interactive Shiny dashboards for operational teams
- Reproducible reports for research and regulatory work
- Data quality checks and automated reporting
- Visual analysis for experiments and business decisions
When to bring in expertise
Companies often seek freelance R expertise when an internal team needs advanced statistical capability, a backlog of analysis must be delivered, or a prototype needs to become a dependable application. A specialist can audit existing scripts, improve slow transformations, migrate work from legacy S-style code, or connect R to enterprise data systems. In Germany, remote collaboration is common, while regulated or research projects may benefit from on-site workshops and clear German or English documentation.
What strong professionals bring
Quality goes beyond fluent syntax. Strong R professionals choose methods that fit the data, test assumptions, explain uncertainty and separate exploratory findings from confirmed results. They write maintainable code, manage dependencies, protect sensitive data and make visualisations understandable to their audience. Look for a portfolio showing reproducible workflows, sound statistical reasoning and deliverables that non-specialists can use.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about R, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
R is mainly used for statistical analysis, data visualisation, forecasting, research and machine learning. It is especially useful when a project needs transparent methods, flexible modelling and clear reporting rather than only basic data manipulation.
R has a particularly deep ecosystem for statistics, academic research, visualisation and analytical reporting. Python often offers broader software integration and general-purpose application tooling, so the right choice depends on the project, existing systems and the team’s adjacent skills.
A strong R professional may also work with SQL, Git, APIs, cloud storage and relational databases. Experience with tidyverse, Shiny, Quarto, statistical testing and data governance is valuable when analysis must become a repeatable business process.
The need depends on the analytical risk and the state of the data. A simple report may need focused package knowledge, while production modelling, regulated research or a Shiny application calls for proven experience with testing, documentation, deployment and review.
R work is often well suited to remote collaboration because scripts, notebooks, repositories and reports can be reviewed digitally. On-site sessions can still help with workshops, sensitive data access or stakeholder alignment, and teams should agree early on whether German, English or both are needed.
R can connect to databases, REST APIs, cloud services, spreadsheets and common file formats. Professionals often combine it with SQL, scheduled jobs and container or server environments so analytical outputs can move into established reporting and operational workflows.
Ask to see how the professional validates assumptions, handles missing data and makes results reproducible. Good evidence includes clean project structure, tested transformations, understandable visualisations and a clear explanation of uncertainty, limitations and business relevance.
GNU R is the widely used free software implementation of the R programming language. In everyday project discussions, R, R programming language and GNU R usually refer to the same practical ecosystem, although distributions and deployment environments can differ.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used R in their recent projects is 90 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 722 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany 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 in Germany 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 in Germany who have used R in their recent projects are English (100%), German (99%), and French (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used R in their recent projects are Information Technology (65%), Education (46%), and Professional Services (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used R in their recent projects are Information Technology (77%), Business Intelligence (72%), and Product Development (67%).
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- Austria
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