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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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Sascha B.

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Frontend / UX Engineer

Berlin
Sascha B.

Last position:

Web Developer at GxPlex

  • Built a customized MediaWiki instance, including installation, MySQL database, SSL, and automatic backups
  • Set up user roles (Admin, Mod, Verified, User) and a permissions system
  • FlaggedRevisions for editorial review workflows · Commenting and rating extensions
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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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Alois R.

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Senior Backend & Fullstack Developer

Berlin
Alois R.

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Senior Fullstack Developer at brandung GmbH

  • Opt-in RAG extension over tenant-owned data sources (SharePoint, Confluence) on existing multi-tenant enterprise AI platform
  • Architecture: ADRs, solution evaluations, permission strategy, cost modeling
  • End-to-end SharePoint and Confluence connectors: OAuth consent flows, token refresh, metadata sync, search integration
  • Permission resolution: ACL indexing at ingestion and query-time verification (document-level security)
  • Elasticsearch hybrid search (semantic + keyword) with RRF scoring
  • RAG chat with context injection and source citations
  • Stack: Elastic Cloud, Elasticsearch, Docker, Northflank, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Prisma, Microsoft Graph API, Atlassian REST API, OAuth 2.0
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Chintan P.

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Product Owner and Technical Product Lead

Berlin
Chintan P.

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Product Owner and Technical Product Lead at Sustamize GmbH

  • LLM-based features for automated CO₂e data extraction from unstructured documents (70% reduction)

  • Agentic AI pipeline for automated Scope 3 emissions calculations with 150.000+ validated data records

  • Intelligent API workflows for real-time carbon footprint calculations in ERP and ESG systems

  • ML algorithms for predicting emissions hotspots and optimizing product design

  • Automated data validation pipelines with NLP for quality assurance of CO₂e datasets

  • Led a 15-person cross-functional team in developing 10+ AI features

  • Strategic product planning and AI roadmap with 35% shorter time-to-market

  • Stakeholder management with DAX companies (40% higher satisfaction, 95% retention)

  • On-time project delivery with 95% budget adherence through data-driven backlog management

  • Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) with continuous AI/ML integration (25% increase in team velocity)

  • Product-market fit for AI features through A/B testing and analytics (60% higher adoption rate)

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Bidya B.

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Senior Product Owner - Agentic AI & Intelligent Platforms | Fintech, SaaS, Risk & Ecommerce

Berlin
Bidya B.

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Product Manager – Payments & Platform at Pipedrive

CRM and revenue platform managing billing and subscription workflows.

  • Scaled payments infrastructure across data products, direct debit expansion and automated abuse prevention, generating $416K in annualized operational savings ($8K/week) by eliminating redundant gateway calls.
  • Owned backlog and sprint execution for autonomous checkout abuse detection pipelines, designing real-time risk guardrails and velocity heuristics that blocked card testing attacks.
  • Architected enterprise billing migrator user stories and data reconciliation mechanisms, achieving zero-downtime subscription state transitions and cutting $60K in infrastructure overhead.
  • Expanded European direct debit (SEPA) payment capabilities, managing cross-squad API dependencies and automated webhook error-handling to eliminate checkout friction.
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Joost D.

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Independent Product & Venture Builder

Berlin
Joost D.

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Independent Product & Venture Builder at Self-employed

  • Ran structured venture discovery across five fields (real estate, trades & property management, psychotherapy & coaching, social impact). Conducted 100+ interviews plus surveys and ad tests, with kill criteria defined upfront for every hypothesis
  • Designed and built AI agents for my own workflows: voice-message transcription and summarization, a journaling app with UI, a voice assistant for task planning, plus research and discovery-synthesis agents (Claude Code, Cursor)
  • Built an AI-assisted tool that crawls and values property listings to pre-screen investment opportunities
  • Executed several real estate projects in Germany and abroad, from sourcing and valuation to acquisition, renovation and operations
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Kenan Š.

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Enterprise Architecture

Berlin
Kenan Š.

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Enterprise Architecture at Swiss Krono

  • Building up the Enterprise Architecture department. Preparing the convergence of IT / OT.
  • Mapping the global business application landscape (6 countries).
  • Concept for a graph model of the application landscape. Storing the results in the open-source graph database Neo4J. Various reports in the database query language CYPHER and the visualization component BLOOM. Automatic generation of IT architecture diagrams.
  • Development of an application taxonomy to identify redundant applications.
  • Applying Gartner's Software Portfolio Management TIME model (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, and Eliminate) for portfolio management.
  • Enterprise Architecture Governance: establishing architecture guidelines for documenting measures and decisions.
  • Process modeling according to Porter (Value Chain).
  • Various architecture approvals for change requests and documentation in Architecture Decision Records (ADR).
  • Working on the RACI matrix for various processes.
  • Working on business capabilities as preparation for a LeanIX rollout.
  • Contributing to the concept for IT/OT convergence.
  • Establishing architecture guidelines in a very pragmatic corporate culture. Knowledge about applications and responsibilities is spread across the world.
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Hubertus S.

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Senior Technical Product Manager / Chief Product Officer

Berlin
Hubertus S.

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Senior Product Manager AI

Workflow-automation SaaS for operations teams (Berlin, 120 people); full-time freelance engagement reporting to the CEO: an initial 12-month interim mandate, extended twice through the AI build-out; owned product for one squad and coached the other product managers on process.

  • Led generative AI (LLM) integration into the core product: from LLM-powered steps to natural-language workflow authoring and step-level automation suggestions, plus AI-managed dynamic workflows, shipped behind eval gates with human-in-the-loop fallbacks: AI-drafted workflows grew to 31% of all new workflows, and median time-to-first-workflow fell from 3 days to 4 hours.
  • Packaged the AI capabilities as a usage-based add-on priced on executed automation steps, working with sales and marketing on positioning: ~€800K added ARR in the first year, and adopting accounts churned 1.8 pp less.
  • Owned the roadmap end to end: replaced feature-request-driven quarterly planning with an outcome-based rolling roadmap built on quarterly bets and explicit kill criteria, presented monthly to the executive team and quarterly to the board.
  • Rebuilt the product-management operating system: weekly customer-discovery cadence incl. workshop facilitation, RFC/decision-doc reviews and a single quarterly metrics narrative; coached four product managers, one promoted to senior during the engagement.
  • Closed the engagement as scoped: hired and onboarded the permanent VP Product, handed over the process playbook and roadmap, and exited on schedule in June 2026.
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Imran A.

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Software Engineer II

Berlin
Imran A.

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Software Engineer II at LivePerson Germany GmbH

  • Led development of 15+ microservices (Java 17, Spring Boot) driving customer interactions; migrated from on-prem to GCP Kubernetes, improving scalability and reducing infra cost by 20%.
  • Optimized user services with CouchDB caching and API refactoring, cutting response times by 35% and enhancing customer experience.
  • Implemented canary deployments, FluxCD GitOps, and CI/CD optimizations in GitLab, reducing release lead time by 25% and enabling zero-downtime rollouts.
  • Set up Grafana health checks and Anodot alerts for latency, error, and throughput monitoring, reducing MTTR by 40%.
  • Built secure APIs using OAuth2, DPoP, and Gatekeeper, integrated REST and GraphQL, and achieved 90%+ test coverage with unit and E2E tests.
  • Mentored junior developers, promoted Agile best practices, and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver high-impact, reliable customer-facing features.
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Axel S.

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Product Owner and Scrum Master ServiceNow

Berlin
Axel S.

Last position:

Product Owner and Scrum Master ServiceNow at BARMER

Product Owner ServiceNow

Scrum Master and agile project management for the further development of ServiceNow and its IT interfaces

Coordinating requirements with all Process/Service Owners and external providers (Incident, Problem, Knowledge, Change, Service Request, Catalog, Software Asset/Hardware Asset/Config Management, Financial Management, SecOPS)

Managing internal/external software developers

Coordinating interfaces and catalogs for new IT providers

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Tommy S.

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AI Systems Architect · Agentic AI, RAG & Production Automation

Berlin
Tommy S.

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Process Manager · Order-to-Cash & Automation at EWE Tel GmbH

  • Root cause analysis of complex business, technical, and data-related errors in PowerCloud across process, booking, and system boundaries.
  • Data-driven management of payments and receivables; contributed to reducing historical receivables from over 100 Mio. EUR to under 25 Mio. EUR.
  • Identification of automation and straight-through processing potential at the interface between business departments, IT, and external service providers.
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Alexandr K.

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Principal Engineering Consultant

Berlin
Alexandr K.

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Technical Co-Founder at Dealyv

  • Joined the initial development team and helped transform an n8n prototype into a production-ready 0-to-1 product in a fast-paced environment.
  • Owned delivery across CRM and Twilio integrations, customer communication workflows, and administrative interfaces.
  • Collaborated on AI evaluation, microservice architecture, and other cross-functional product and engineering topics.
  • Supported the CEO across VC communications, customer acquisition, product positioning, onboarding, documentation, pricing, and sales.
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Jorge N.

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Senior AI Engineer | Backend Developer C#/.NET | RAG, LLM Integration, Semantic Kernel | Azure, GCP, AWS

Berlin
Jorge N.

Last position:

Senior Developer at NDA

AI Platform Backend – Senior Developer

Hired to design and build an AI platform backend from the ground up, including multi-provider LLM orchestration and real-time infrastructure for AI influencer personas at scale.

Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Architected and implemented a multi-LLM orchestration layer with Semantic Kernel to integrate GPT-4 and other providers for core platform logic and AI influencer personas, reducing model-switching overhead by abstracting provider APIs behind a unified interface.
  • Designed and developed a backend from the ground up in C# / .NET 10, including domain modeling with DDD, a versioned RESTful API layer, and cloud infrastructure on Azure.
  • Built real-time chat infrastructure with Server-Sent Events (SSE), message persistence, and delivery guarantees for running AI influencer personas live at scale.
  • Developed a media management service with cloud object storage integration for uploading and retrieving influencer-generated content.
  • Created an integration and unit test suite with data seeding for reliable regression testing across all core platform flows, significantly reducing the production error rate.

Tools and Technologies: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Python, TypeScript, MySQL, Semantic Kernel, EF Core, Minimal APIs, LLM Orchestration, Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI, Generative AI, AI-Assisted Engineering, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI API, Ollama, Redis, Azure, Azure Container Apps, Azure Database for MySQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice Architecture, CQRS, Domain-Driven Design, REST API, xUnit, Integration Testing, Unit Testing, Jira, Confluence, Scrum

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Statistics of experts using REST API

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

15 years (Germany: 17 years)

REST API experts in Berlin have 15 years of professional experience on average. It is 2 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 17 years.

Position duration

2.9 years

REST API experts in Berlin stay in a single position for 2.9 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

10 (Germany: 12)

REST API experts in Berlin have completed 10 positions on average over the course of their careers. It is 2 fewer than in Germany, where the average stands at 12.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

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

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail

REST API experts in Berlin are most in demand in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Retail.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

REST API experts in Berlin earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Bachelor's degree or higher

96% (Germany: 92%)

96% of REST API experts in Berlin hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 4% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 92%.

Master's degree or higher

56% (Germany: 55%)

56% of REST API experts in Berlin hold at least a Master's degree. It is 1% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 55%.

Doctorate

4% (Germany: 7%)

4% of REST API experts in Berlin have a doctorate (PhD). It is 3% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 7%.

Certifications per freelancer

2 (Germany: 3)

REST API experts in Berlin hold 2 professional certifications on average. It is 1 fewer than in Germany, where the average stands at 3.

Most common languages

English, German, Spanish

REST API experts in Berlin most often speak English, German, and Spanish.

Speak two or more languages

96% (Germany: 97%)

96% of REST API experts in Berlin speak two or more languages. It is 1% lower 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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11% of REST API experts in Berlin charge less than €400 per day.
51% of REST API experts in Berlin charge between €400 and €800 per day.
31% of REST API experts in Berlin charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
4% of REST API experts in Berlin charge between €1200 and €1600 per day.
3% of REST API experts in Berlin charge €1600 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Berlin 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 Berlin using REST API

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

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Daily rate avg. 697 €
Germany avg. 737 €

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 720 €
Germany median 752 €

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.

REST API 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 (97%)
  • Banking and Finance (40%)
  • Retail (35%)
  • Healthcare (34%)
  • Media and Entertainment (33%)
  • Education (30%)
  • Automotive (29%)
  • Professional Services (29%)

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

About the technology

What REST API means

A REST API is a web interface that lets software exchange resources over HTTP using clear, stateless requests. It commonly uses methods such as GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE, with JSON responses that are easy for browsers, mobile apps, and other services to consume. Good design makes each endpoint predictable, secure, and simple to maintain.

Where it is used

REST APIs connect customer-facing products with the systems behind them. Typical deliverables include:

  • Web and mobile application backends
  • Partner and marketplace integrations
  • Payment, identity, and notification connections
  • Public data services and internal business APIs

They support commerce, logistics, finance, media, healthcare, and many other industries. In Berlin, specialists often work across distributed product teams and integrate local business systems with cloud services.

Ecosystem and tooling

Strong REST API work covers HTTP semantics, resource modelling, JSON, URI design, status codes, pagination, filtering, and versioning. Specialists may use OpenAPI or Swagger for contracts and documentation, Postman or Insomnia for exploratory testing, and tools such as automated test suites, API gateways, Docker, and cloud observability services. Authentication can involve OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, API keys, or signed tokens.

When companies need help

Freelance expertise is useful when an API must be designed before implementation, stabilised during a migration, or made ready for external consumers. Common signals include:

  • Inconsistent endpoints or unclear response formats
  • Slow integrations and recurring production errors
  • Missing documentation, tests, or security controls
  • A monolith being separated into services

A specialist can review the contract, improve reliability, and leave a maintainable foundation for the internal team.

What quality looks like

A capable REST API professional starts with consumer needs and domain rules rather than endpoints alone. They define consistent resources, validation, error responses, idempotency, and backward-compatible changes. They also protect sensitive data, apply least-privilege access, test failure paths, and document examples that other teams can use without guesswork.

Working with a specialist

A project benefits from clear ownership of the API contract, access to representative data, and agreement on environments and release processes. Remote collaboration works well when documentation, review routines, and monitoring are visible; on-site work in Berlin can help when the specialist must align closely with product, security, or operations teams. Adjacent skills in backend programming, databases, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automated testing often determine whether an API performs well beyond its first release.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the questions that come up most around REST API.

A REST API lets web applications, mobile apps, internal tools, and external partners exchange data and trigger actions over HTTP. Companies use it for product backends, customer accounts, payments, catalogues, logistics workflows, and connections between business systems.

A REST API usually exposes resources through predictable HTTP endpoints and standard methods, while GraphQL lets consumers request a tailored data shape through a schema. SOAP uses stricter message contracts and conventions, which can suit established enterprise environments. The right choice depends on client needs, governance, existing systems, and integration constraints.

A strong REST API specialist often understands backend programming, relational and non-relational databases, authentication, automated testing, and cloud deployment. Experience with OpenAPI, API gateways, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and security review is also valuable.

The required REST API experience depends on scope and risk. A simple internal interface may need someone focused on clean endpoints and tests, while a public or regulated service calls for deeper knowledge of versioning, security, performance, observability, and compatibility.

Yes, REST API work is well suited to remote collaboration because contracts, documentation, pull requests, and test environments can be shared digitally. Teams in Berlin should agree on communication routines, decision ownership, working hours, and the language used for technical documentation.

On-site collaboration can help when a REST API project involves complex domain discovery, sensitive systems, or close coordination with security and operations teams. It is especially useful during workshops that define resource models, integration boundaries, and rollout responsibilities.

Ask a REST API professional to explain how they handle resource design, validation, errors, authentication, idempotency, versioning, and backward compatibility. Review the clarity of their documentation and tests, and look for evidence that they consider monitoring, failure recovery, and the needs of API consumers.

A REST API engagement may deliver an API contract, endpoint implementation, authentication setup, automated tests, documentation, deployment configuration, and monitoring guidance. The scope should also define ownership of schemas, security decisions, test data, and future changes so the internal team can operate the service confidently.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used REST API in their recent projects is 87 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 697 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used REST API in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 56% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used REST API in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used REST API in their recent projects are English (98%), German (93%), and Spanish (10%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used REST API in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Banking and Finance (40%), and Retail (35%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used REST API in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (94%), and Project Management (50%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used REST API

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