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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
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.
Alois R.
Last position:
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
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.
Thomas Ü.
Last position:
Head of Engineering - Midnight at IOG / Midnight
- Built and scaled a 35-member engineering team (Core Engineering, QA, and SRE) in 12 months, accelerating Midnight’s blockchain development on Parity’s Substrate framework.
- Defined strategic direction and aligned technology development with business objectives as a key member of the leadership.
- Optimized software development processes and implemented agile methodologies, enhancing operational efficiency and code security.
- Delivered projects in a fast-paced startup environment through effective project management and resource allocation.
Bidya B.
Last position:
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.
Hubertus S.
Last position:
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.
Pradeep S.
Last position:
Tech Product Lead – AI, Data & Platform Products at Elli GmbH- A brand of Volkswagen
- Own the 12–18 month roadmap and key outcomes for Elli's enterprise customer platform, covering onboarding, pricing, billing, analytics and broader platform modernization; redesigned the Fleet onboarding funnel to double conversion, supporting a projected €20.7M revenue uplift by 2028.
- Lead the broader Energy Intelligence product and directly own its AI/ML, asset and portfolio-optimization capabilities, including MLOps and safe strategy deployment, strategy lifecycle management and backtesting; delegated data and V2G integration roadmap ownership to a new PO as the platform scope expanded.
- Built a Human-in-the-loop GenAI/RAG support workflow, increasing L1 resolution by 24%, routing accuracy to 91%, and reducing L2 workload by 30%.
- Introduced standardized data contracts and a self-service Python toolkit for traders and Data Scientists, increasing platform adoption by 15% and reducing support effort by 50%.
- Built and scaled a real-time orchestration product from 32 to 3,000+ endpoints across four markets, growing recurring revenue from €1.4k to €56.3k MRR.
- Developed product and AI capability across the organization, training 20 PMs on RAG, agents and prototyping; mentoring a junior PM and coaching an Enterprise Platform Tech Lead toward Product Management ownership.
Viktor S.
Last position:
AI Engineer (Freelance) at Empion
Enterprise AI content categorization and AI-powered web research.
- Built multi-LLM evaluation framework with annotated data
- Iterated LLM error rates based on annotated datasets
- Implemented AI-powered web research pipeline Stack: LLM, evals, OpenRouter, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React
Tommy S.
Last position:
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.
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
Caleb C.
Last position:
Senior Python Backend Engineer at Simon-Kucher
Transmission system operator – network provisioning platform (team lead)
- Designed the saga orchestrator in Python that provisions network fabrics with rollback.
- Split IP, identity, and resource allocation into bounded contexts with their own databases and typed clients.
- Implemented data access using DDD repositories and units of work, with no SQL in the domain code.
- Required integration tests using real PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ containers, and API fuzzing for every service.
- Introduced an agent workflow where a spec starts each change and a human approves every merge.
- Rolled out OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation through GitOps across eighteen Kubernetes clusters.
- Led incident response for stuck provisioning and recorded every outage as a post-mortem.
Languages and software used: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic v2, SQLAlchemy async, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Celery, pytest, testcontainers, schemathesis, Helm, Flux CD, GitLab CI, OpenTelemetry, pi coding agent.
Software product company – datacenter simulation SaaS (backend development)
- Built the asynchronous simulation pipeline as the second-largest contributor among more than twenty team members.
- Tagged every image by commit SHA and semver in the GitHub Actions deployment workflows.
- Diagnosed the RabbitMQ memory alarm that froze every simulation and fixed the limits in the Helm chart.
- Converted the test suite to function-style pytest, with coverage reported in every pipeline.
Languages and software used: Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, S3, EKS, Helm, Keycloak, GitHub Actions, pytest, mypy, ruff, SonarQube.
Internal AI platform – model serving and telemetry
- Built the FastAPI service that deploys open-weight models on GPU tiers as OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
- Upgraded production EKS by two Kubernetes minor versions and fixed zone-bound storage faults.
- Traced every model call, including its token count, cost, and latency, through the OpenTelemetry operator.
Languages and software used: Python, FastAPI, vLLM, LangGraph, pydantic-ai, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, EKS, Helm, Flux CD, Terraform, GitLab CI, OpenTelemetry, Grafana.
Nikolai G.
Last position:
Clinical Data Manager at Dr. Falk Pharma
- Used OpenCode and AI-assisted software engineering to design, implement, refactor, test, and document an end-to-end RAW/SDTM/ADaM pipeline in R for Dr. Falk Pharma (07/2026), including metadata-driven transformations, automated validation rules and QC, traceability, and reproducible clinical outputs.
Saman S.
Last position:
AI Product Builder at Instalemon.com
- Architected and built an agentic creative automation platform on Mastra, with a custom RAG pipeline, custom hooks, tools and skills, Chroma for vector storage, and a MongoDB/Express backend.
- Built the agent orchestration layer powering Pixomi's multi-agent workspace, including 72 custom marketing skills, tools and hooks, and a custom context-management pipeline.
- Designed and implemented evals and observability through Mastra studio.
- Onboarded 10 pilot SMB customers producing 10x publish-ready creative output per campaign versus manual production in 3 months.
- Ran customer discovery and pilot feedback loops to shape the roadmap for an AI-native, workflow-based creation platform.
Mukund B.
Last position:
Voice AI Chatbot - Real-Time Audio Assistant
- ▶ Built real-time voice assistant (STT → LLM → TTS pipeline) benchmarking and evaluating multiple STT providers including faster-whisper and Azure Speech. achieved sub-3s latency, Groq API (Llama 3) with multi-turn memory - directly handling edge cases in dictation, names and passcode recognition.
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Statistics of experts using Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
15 years

Position duration
2.1 years (Germany: 2.8 years)

Positions per freelancer
8 (Germany: 10)

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 97%)
Master's degree or higher
68% (Germany: 75%)
Doctorate
5% (Germany: 12%)

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
English, German, Spanish

Speak two or more languages
94% (Germany: 97%)
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Berlin using Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation 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 (99%)
- Professional Services (49%)
- Banking and Finance (44%)
- Education (40%)
- Healthcare (39%)
- Media and Entertainment (31%)
- Retail (29%)
- Automotive (26%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What RAG does
Retrieval-Augmented Generation, commonly called RAG, combines information retrieval with large language models. Before generating an answer, a RAG system searches approved sources such as documents, knowledge bases, tickets or product data. The retrieved context helps produce responses that are more relevant, traceable and aligned with changing information.
What it builds
RAG supports internal knowledge assistants, customer support tools, research interfaces and document question-answering systems. It can also power search experiences that explain results in natural language. The quality depends on the complete flow, from source preparation to retrieval, prompting, generation and evaluation.
- Grounded answers over company documents
- Semantic search across structured and unstructured data
- Source-aware assistants for support and operations
- Retrieval pipelines for changing knowledge
Ecosystem and tooling
Strong specialists work across embedding models, vector databases and language-model APIs. Common components include PostgreSQL with pgvector, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus and Chroma. Frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex can support orchestration, while Python, TypeScript, APIs, queues and observability tools connect the system to production.
When expertise matters
Companies often bring in freelance expertise when a prototype gives inconsistent answers, retrieval misses important passages or costs grow in production. Specialist support is also useful when sensitive data must be separated by user, source permissions need to be preserved, or a knowledge assistant must connect to existing business systems.
- Search quality is difficult to measure
- Documents need parsing, chunking or metadata design
- Answers require citations, filters or access controls
- A prototype must become a reliable service
What strong specialists deliver
Experienced professionals define a retrieval strategy before selecting tools. They compare chunking methods, embedding models, query rewriting, hybrid search and reranking against representative questions. They also establish evaluation sets, monitor retrieval and answer quality, handle empty or conflicting results, and design prompts that limit unsupported claims.
Working in real systems
RAG projects need more than a language-model connection. Strong delivery includes ingestion jobs, document versioning, permissions, API integration, logging, testing and deployment practices. In Berlin, teams may collaborate on-site or remotely across multilingual data environments; clear documentation and communication matter when source content, user expectations and compliance requirements differ.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Retrieval-Augmented Generation? Start with the answers below.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is used to give language models access to relevant external information at the time of a request. Typical applications include internal knowledge assistants, customer support, document search, research tools and question-answering over product or operational data.
RAG adds current or private information through retrieval, while fine-tuning changes a model’s learned behavior through training examples. RAG is often easier to update and audit for knowledge-heavy use cases; fine-tuning may be more suitable for tone, format or repeated task behavior. Some systems use both.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation work benefits from skills in information retrieval, embeddings, vector databases, prompt design and language-model APIs. Strong specialists also understand data ingestion, document parsing, Python or TypeScript, access control, evaluation, monitoring and production deployment.
RAG project needs vary with the data, risk and integration scope. A focused prototype may need a specialist who can validate retrieval and answer quality, while a production system requires experience with permissions, evaluation, observability, failure handling and reliable data pipelines.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation projects can usually be delivered remotely when data access, environments and decision-making are well organized. Berlin teams should agree on collaboration windows, documentation standards and the language used for technical work, especially when source material is multilingual.
RAG does not always require a dedicated vector database. A relational database with vector search or an existing search engine can be enough for a smaller or hybrid retrieval system. The right choice depends on filtering, scale, latency, permissions and the need for keyword and semantic search together.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation quality should be tested with representative questions and expected source passages. Check whether the system retrieves the right evidence, cites it accurately, refuses unsupported answers and remains dependable when documents are missing, outdated or contradictory.
RAG specialists often improve weak retrieval, poor document chunking, irrelevant context and unsupported answers. They may redesign ingestion, add metadata filters or reranking, improve prompts, introduce evaluation workflows and connect the assistant safely to business systems.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Retrieval-Augmented Generation in their recent projects is 98 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 787 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Retrieval-Augmented Generation in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 68% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Retrieval-Augmented Generation in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Retrieval-Augmented Generation in their recent projects are English (99%), German (94%), and Spanish (16%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Retrieval-Augmented Generation in their recent projects are Information Technology (99%), Professional Services (49%), and Banking and Finance (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Retrieval-Augmented Generation in their recent projects are Information Technology (99%), Product Development (97%), and Business Intelligence (61%).
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