Radar Expert in Munich
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Munich, who have recently used Radar
Andre K.
Last position:
Nearshore Engagement Manager at EnBW AG
- Building strong awareness within the company around nearshoring
- Engagement Manager in the Nearshore Competence Center
- Responsible for nearshore consulting, partner screening and technical onboarding, designing and implementing cooperation scenarios, change management, stakeholder management, participation in steering committees, and collaboration with IT and business units
- Tools used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Azure Devops, Microsoft Sharepoint, Conceptboard
- Key results: Establishment of a nearshoring strategy, successful identification and implementation of outsourcing partnerships, delivery of change management and stakeholder management at the highest level
Narges D.
Last position:
Research Assistant at Hochschule München
Introduced an integrated approach for structural damage detection across concrete, steel, and glass using advanced technologies such as LiDAR and thermal imaging. Highlighted cross-material interactions to enhance diagnostics and enable predictive maintenance.
Developed an NLP-based medical note simplifier that transforms complex clinical instructions into plain, child-level English. Applied prompt engineering with Flan-T5 transformer models to extract patient-relevant actions and rephrase them into clear to-do items. Built dual Flask and Tornado backends with a printable web interface.
Elena K.
Last position:
Project Management Consultant at Freelancer
- PMO setup and governance for complex development and transformation programs
- Program and project management in highly complex technical environments (hardware, software, and system integration)
- Agile coaching and scaling (SAFe, Scrum) – from framework introduction to operational rollout
- Scrum Master and Product Owner roles within cross-functional, international teams
- Risk, stakeholder, and backlog management using JIRA, Confluence, and MS Project Available for: PMO Lead, Program Manager, Project Manager, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Technical Program Manager
Satish P.
Last position:
Project Lead at L&T Technology Services
- Experience in testing of Body Control Module (BCM) using Dspace, Control Desk and EXAM in GHIL (Gesamt HIL).
- Led a team of 8 engineers and managed end-to-end execution of software for each release, from requirement analysis to final validation and release.
- Coordinated with function specialists (Fachabteilung) to analyse requirements and derive test cases.
- Developed test specifications and maintained bidirectional traceability between requirements and test cases.
- Automated test cases and built library functions using EXAM (Audi and VW customer-specific tool for test automation).
- Organised GHIL testing activities for both manual and automated test execution.
- Evaluated and analysed test reports generated from night runs in EXAM.
- Identified software and GHIL issues based on report analysis and created bug tickets for traceability.
Stephan P.
Last position:
Senior Embedded SW-Architect at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH
- Collaboration with MB (Sindelfingen), NVIDIA (Santa Clara), MBRDI (Bangalore)
- Structure and signal modelling in Rhapsody
- Architectural decision records and requirement reviews
- Technologies: Confluence, Rhapsody, JIRA, DNG, Jama, Slack, GitLab, AWS CDW, Bazel, Docker, QNX
Andreas B.
Last position:
Project Lead, Digital Transformation at SV Linde Tacherting e.V.
Researched, developed, and implemented comprehensive digital strategy to modernize and accelerate processes of sports club with approximately 1300 members.
System Architecture & Implementation: Conceived and set up central cost- and energy-efficient ARM-based server infrastructure.
Selected, installed, and configured open-source solutions for knowledge management, ticket booking, and member management.
Madhava N.
Last position:
Function Developer ADAS at Continental Automotive GmbH through Ferchau GmbH
- Project: Sensor fusion application for traffic participant detection
- Software frameworks: C++ (11,14), Python, Visual Studio, MTS, Qt, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Conan, CAN, RTOS, DOORS, CMake
- Refactored and adapted sensor fusion algorithms by processing sensor data (camera and radar) for ACC and EBA as per requirements
- Handled system test issue reports in JIRA
- Tuned Kalman filters and introduced new features to enhance tracking
- Adapted architecture, detailed design (UML) and simulation tool (Qt)
- Conducted unit testing, code reviews and static code analysis in compliance with MISRA standards
- Conducted regression testing to validate software, involved in software releases (CI/CD), KPI evaluation by testing NCAP scenarios
- Flashed ADAS software to target vehicles, used UDS protocol and OBD-II tools for diagnostics and verification
Jeffrey J.
Last position:
UAV Field Engineer at Helsing
- UAV Field Testing: field testing for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to ensure operational readiness.
- Quality Assurance (QA) Lead: Served as the Production Shift Lead for drone manufacturing, overseeing hardware and software quality checks and performance analysis.
- GCSO – Ship Landing Project: Acted as the Ground Control Station Operator (GCSO) for specialized maritime ship-landing operations.
- Weaponization Operator: Managed and operated specialized systems for tactical drone weaponization.
Subodh K.
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at EDAG Engineering GmbH
Project Title: Path Planning Module Development (Oct 2024 – Jun 2025)
Developed path planning module using C++14 and CMake
Implemented gRPC communication protocol between modules
Performed unit testing using Pytest framework and Python
Project Title: HMI Programming for Battery, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (Aug 2023 – Sep 2024)
Developed HMI software for BEV/FCEV using Ruby and Crystal for backend
Implemented frontend using Vue.js framework
Conducted bug fixes and simulator testing
Project Title: IFHOST CAN Bus Programming (Jan 2023 – Jul 2023)
Programmed CAN bus software using C and C++
Executed unit tests with Google Test framework
Performed integration testing using CAPL in Vector CANalyzer
Participated in onsite testing
Ould Aly I.
Last position:
Functional Safety Assessor at VW
- Pre-assessments and review of functional safety status for ADAS ECUs and body controller components
- Conduct functional safety audits
- Review the functional safety status of the E3 1.2 in a pre-assessment
- Document interviews
- Document findings and generate internal reports
Methods:
- ISO26262
- Automotive SPICE Level 2, 3
- Agile methods, SAFe
Tools:
- DOORS
- Enterprise Architect
- JIRA & Confluence
- IQ-FMEA
- Isograph
Yimeng W.
Last position:
R&D Software Engineer at Advantest
- Development and maintenance of hardware drivers in C++
- Conducting unit and integration tests to ensure code quality
- Debugging and fixing issues with the hardware team and FPGA team
- Defining and developing software concepts and coordinating with the software architect
- Expanding test automation to improve efficiency
- Research and development of algorithms to improve existing codebases (runtime, memory usage, accuracy)
András B.
Last position:
Test Equipment Developer at Minebea Access Solutions
- Tested passenger car opening handle at system level integrating hardware, software and mechanics
- Built and provided complete test equipment for system testers using Arduino boards, Saleae Logic analyser, oscilloscope, multimeter, RLC meter, programmable power supplies and function generators
- Developed system testing concepts and constructed manual system test bench
- Supported system testers with hardware and software tools
- Products: BMW XNF, Rolls Royce, Audi eRing, JLR (Jaguar-Land-Rover)
Ehsan Z.
Last position:
Freelance Robotics Software Engineer at Independent Contractor
- Developed and deployed custom ROS2 nodes for real-time LiDAR-IMU fusion using R3Live++ on ARM64 hardware (Docker, CMake)
- Configured IMU, camera, and LiDAR drivers for proper data timing and formats to enable real-time 3D mapping with R3Live
- Built complete simulation stack for quadrotor UAVs: Ardupilot SITL + ROS2/DDS + Gazebo Harmonic + YOLOv8 detection
Alexandra B.
Last position:
System Test Engineer at Magna Electronics
- Requirements analysis
- Requirements coverage review
- Test specification and test case creation
- Test automation and manual testing
- Functional testing
- Environmental testing (climatic chamber tests)
- Stress testing and regression testing
- HiL and black-box testing
- Test bench setup
- Test reporting and bug reporting
- Diagnostics testing based on ISO 14229
- System base functions testing including KPIs
- End-of-line testing of first produced ECU samples
- Supported automated testing through CI/CD processes
Fabian B.
Last position:
Senior commodity manager / buyer at Airbus Defence and Space
Commodity management for aircraft mission systems and aircraft integration (with current focus on infrared missile warner systems, stand-off-jammers, DIRCMs, DASS integration and AESA radars)
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Statistics of experts using Radar
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
16 years
Position duration
2.6 years
Positions per freelancer
8
Top business areas
Product Development, Quality Assurance, Information Technology
Top industries
Automotive, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Logistics, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
87%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Munich 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 in Munich using Radar
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
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.
Radar experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Automotive (81%)
- Manufacturing (50%)
- Information Technology (44%)
- Aerospace and Defense (38%)
- Healthcare (25%)
- Telecommunication (25%)
- Education (19%)
- Energy (19%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Radar does
Radar is a location platform for adding geofencing, mapping, search and real-time location features to digital products. Its APIs and SDKs help applications understand where devices, users, vehicles or assets are and trigger actions based on location. Radar is also commonly known through the name Radar.io.
Core capabilities
Radar supports location-aware mobile, web and backend systems. Its services can handle geocoding, reverse geocoding, place detection, distance calculations, travel tracking and region-based events. Teams use it to connect physical activity with workflows, notifications and customer experiences.
- Geofencing for stores, sites and service areas
- Location tracking for trips, deliveries and field activity
- Address search, maps and place detection
- Arrival, departure and dwell-time events
Ecosystem and tooling
Professionals work with Radar SDKs for iOS and Android, web integrations and server-side APIs. They connect Radar with mapping interfaces, databases, mobile permissions, notification services and event-driven backends. Strong implementation also requires careful handling of background location, battery use, privacy settings and unreliable connectivity.
When companies need specialists
Companies bring in freelance Radar specialists when a product needs location features without building every geospatial service internally. Typical assignments include replacing a legacy geofencing service, integrating Radar into an existing mobile app, improving tracking reliability or connecting location events to operational systems. In Munich, remote collaboration can work well when product, mobile and backend teams maintain clear interfaces; on-site work may help during field testing.
What good delivery includes
A capable professional starts with the business event, not just the map. They define geofence behavior, permissions, data retention, failure handling and event accuracy before selecting the relevant Radar services. Deliverables may include SDK integration, backend event processing, monitoring, test scenarios and documentation for operations teams.
Evaluating Radar expertise
Look for evidence of production location features rather than a simple map demo. Ask how the specialist handled background execution, false triggers, duplicated events, offline states and platform permission changes. Experience with mobile release processes, API security, observability and geospatial data is valuable, as is the ability to explain trade-offs clearly to product and operations stakeholders.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Radar? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
Radar is used to add geofencing, maps, address search, place detection and location tracking to mobile, web and backend applications. Companies use it for delivery visibility, store visits, field operations, trip tracking and location-triggered customer journeys.
Radar focuses strongly on location intelligence, geofencing and movement events, while Google Maps Platform and Mapbox are often selected primarily for maps, routing and broader mapping services. The right choice depends on required coverage, map presentation, tracking behavior, existing vendor relationships and the level of geospatial control the team needs.
A strong Radar specialist should understand iOS or Android location behavior, backend APIs, event processing and map interfaces. Useful adjacent skills include geospatial data, push notifications, authentication, observability, privacy design and integrations with logistics or customer systems.
A focused Radar integration can suit a professional who has delivered comparable SDK and API work, provided the requirements are well defined. Complex tracking across mobile platforms, background execution, geofences and operational workflows calls for proven production experience and careful testing.
Yes, Radar work can usually be delivered remotely when mobile, backend and product responsibilities are clearly coordinated. On-site collaboration in Munich can be useful for field testing, hardware workflows or teams that need close alignment with local operations.
Ask a Radar professional to explain how they would prevent false geofence triggers, manage permissions, reduce battery impact and handle duplicate or delayed events. Review architecture decisions, test coverage, monitoring and documentation rather than judging the work only by the appearance of a map.
Radar can provide important mapping, geocoding, geofencing and location services, but it may not replace every mapping or routing capability a product requires. A specialist should map the required journeys and data sources first, then combine Radar with another service where coverage or functionality calls for it.
Before using Radar, freelancers should clarify target platforms, location permissions, event definitions, accuracy expectations, data retention and the required map or routing experience. They should also check SDK versions, backend authentication, environment separation and how location data will be monitored in production.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Radar in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 751 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Radar in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 87% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Radar in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Radar in their recent projects are German (94%), English (94%), and French (19%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Radar in their recent projects are Automotive (81%), Manufacturing (50%), and Information Technology (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used Radar in their recent projects are Product Development (100%), Quality Assurance (81%), and Information Technology (69%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Radar
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