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Jens-Uwe Peter

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Physics Graduate And Certified LabVIEW Architect With Over 15 Years Of Experience In Developing Automated Measurement,

Coburg
Jens-Uwe Peter

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Architecture and Programming for Automotive Test Bench Platform at Automotive Supplier

In this project, I was responsible for the design and implementation of a new, modular, and highly scalable test bench platform for an automotive supplier. My focus was on developing a robust system architecture and programming the associated software, with consistent use of UML modeling throughout. This structured approach made it possible to greatly increase the reusability of individual LabVIEW test modules and to significantly reduce development time for follow-up projects. I also integrated modern automotive standards such as CAN FD, LIN, and safety requirements, which made the solution future-proof.

Technologies: LabVIEW, Visio, UML, CAN FD, LIN, DMM, Safety, image processing, project management, HMI, C#, C++, Python, Rust, CI

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Markus Gritsch

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Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer

Oberschneiding
Markus Gritsch

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Open-Source Software Engineer & Maintainer at Stealth Startup

Independent, part-time open-source engineering focused on build-time tooling for Next.js, React, MDX, and JavaScript/TypeScript compiler pipelines.

  • Built next-slug-splitter to optimize content-driven Next.js applications. It analyzes MDX content at build time, resolves component usage, and generates route-specific handlers so pages avoid sharing the full catch-all component bundle.

  • Created supporting plugins and utilities for scoped MDX transformations, nested component dependency resolution, compile-time refinement, safe ESTree evaluation, and object-graph diffing.

  • Own architecture, API design, implementation, automated testing, npm publishing, documentation, demos, and performance benchmarking.

Building blocks:

  • remark-scoped-mdx: Context-aware AST transformations with nested scope isolation, typed component registries, and prop inference.

  • recma-component-resolver: Dependency-graph analysis and selective component forwarding across nested MDX includes.

  • recma-static-refiner: Build-time prop extraction, schema validation, derivation, and pruning.

  • estree-util-to-static-value and object-graph-delta: Safe static evaluation and deterministic, cycle-safe structural diffing.

Tech Stack:

  • Frameworks: TypeScript · Next.js · React · MDX

  • Compiler tooling: Unified · Remark · Recma · MDAST · ESTree · ts-morph · esbuild

  • Competencies: Static analysis · AST traversal and transformation · dependency graphs · code generation · schema validation · route and bundle splitting

  • Tooling: Vitest · tsup · npm · performance benchmarking

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Piet Althoff

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Senior Product Engineer / Automation Developer

Cologne
Piet Althoff

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Founder at RubberMetrics.com

  • Self-hosted table tennis equipment platform.
  • Development of a custom “Racket Builder” that uses a co-evolutionary genetic algorithm to identify, evaluate, and recommend the optimal combinations of racket blades and rubbers based on physics heuristics and player data within a search space of over 4 billion combinations.
  • Development of a custom fully automated web crawler to capture equipment specifications, integrating an automated pipeline for image normalization as well as data harmonization via DeepSeek.
  • Cloudflare Edge Workers written in Rust to perform low-latency data searches and offload computationally intensive simulations from the main server.
  • High performance and accessibility standards across a large Nuxt 4 codebase achieving 95–100/100/100 Lighthouse scores.
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Laurin Hagemann

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Software Architect (Freelance)

Bochum
Laurin Hagemann

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Software Architect (Freelance) at Care4Sure

  • Delivered MVP-focused full-stack architecture for a health-sector client: Vite/React frontend, backend services on Google Cloud Run, and Supabase for database plus IAM/authentication.
  • Supported product requirements engineering and prioritized cost-aware workload placement, implementing browser-side/edge computation where feasible before moving logic to backend services.
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Marc Smyk

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Fullstack Engineer | Java & Spring Boot | Angular | System Integration

Leverkusen
Marc Smyk

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Fullstack Developer at PLANT-MY-TREE

PLANT-MY-TREE®-per-order

The application enables Shopify merchants to automatically place tree-planting orders for every incoming order. By integrating ecological contributions directly into the purchase process, the manual effort for tracking and billing reforestation initiatives is eliminated. The system increases transparency for end customers through real-time visualizations of the ecological impact directly in the storefront. The architecture is based on a modular monolith with Spring Boot in the backend and an integrated React app inside the Shopify admin area. The solution uses webhooks to capture order data in an event-driven way and integrates the weclapp ERP system for automated monthly invoicing. An app proxy mechanism provides dynamic statistics such as CO2 compensation and planted trees without any performance loss for the merchant shop.

Tasks:

  • Design of the modular software architecture based on Spring Modulith to ensure high maintainability
  • Development of the event-driven business logic for evaluating Shopify orders via webhooks
  • Implementation of automated invoicing by connecting the weclapp REST API
  • Building the frontend using React Router and Shopify App Bridge for native integration
  • Design of the database model and implementation of the persistence layer with JPA/Hibernate and Prisma
  • Integration of internationalization processes for global use in the frontend and email communication
  • Automation of deployment processes using Docker and GitLab CI/CD

Project skills: Java 25, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Modulith, Hibernate, JPA, REST API, PostgreSQL, Maven, Liquibase, React, TypeScript, React Router, Vite, Node.js, Prisma, Zod, Docker, Docker Compose, GitLab CI/CD, Shopify CLI, Shopify App Bridge, Polaris, weclapp, i18next, Lombok, Vitest

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Benjamin Matschke

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AI/ML/CV Engineer, System Architect, Founder, Mathematician

Cottbus
Benjamin Matschke

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Founder, system architect, and main developer at Institute for Artificial Study (IAS)

  • Expert-supervised AI systems for scientific reasoning, model evaluation, and research workflows.
  • Built the IAS Problem Solver, an orchestrated system for difficult mathematical reasoning; it achieved 84% in one submitted answer set on the Leipzig mathematics benchmark.
  • Built a resumable state-machine pipeline for research-grade mathematics benchmark generation: source selection, LLM-agent-based phenomenon discovery, task synthesis, gold-answer and certificate generation and validation, probing, repair, human feedback, and quality gates, targeting tasks that are difficult, natural, verifiable, and cost-effective.
  • Current work extends this into budget-aware AI research workflows for real scientific problems with expert review.

Tech stack: Python, OpenAI/OpenRouter-compatible APIs, embeddings, RAG, SQLite.

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Santhosh Kannan

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Freelance Software Engineer

Berlin
Santhosh Kannan

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Freelance Software Engineer at Zalando SE

  • Support Authorization as a Service initiative for enterprise-scale authorization platform
  • Incorporate comprehensive observability solutions into authorization infrastructure
  • Provision and manage AWS infrastructure for authorization services
  • Mentor development team on AWS and Kubernetes best practices
  • Tech Stack: Java/Kotlin, Golang, Python, OPA, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana
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Thomas Übermeier

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Innovative Fintech & Blockchain Leader · Head Of Engineering

Berlin
Thomas Übermeier

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Head of Engineering - Midnight at IOG / Midnight

IOG (IOHK), is one of the world's pre-eminent blockchain infrastructure research and engineering companies.

  • Converted a lingering R&D project into a cohesive, production-ready testnet; built and scaled the 35-member engineering team (Core, QA, SRE) to achieve this goal.
  • 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.
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Dennis Dickmann

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Founder

Stuttgart
Dennis Dickmann

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Founder at Latence

  • Founded Latence to commercialise runtime safety patterns from HALO as a deployable product.
  • Built end-to-end as single technical founder with open-source stack on NVIDIA ecosystem.
  • Developed TRACE: real-time safety layer for knowledge agents and RAG pipelines with groundedness scoring, prompt-attack detection, GDPR redaction, context compression, audit-ready traces.
  • Developed vLLM Factory: production inference framework on vLLM with custom Triton kernels and 12 parity-validated plugin models, achieving up to 11.7× throughput vs vanilla PyTorch.
  • Developed ColSearch: single-node multi-vector late-interaction retrieval engine with Rust SIMD and fused CUDA, achieving 3.12× FastPlaid geomean QPS on BEIR-8 and a 1.58-bit quantized lane 6.4× smaller than FP16.
  • Developed llm-opt: LLM compression research framework with hierarchical importance, structured pruning, tabu search, knowledge distillation.
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Daniel Martinez Maqueda

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Founding Database Engineer

Berlin
Daniel Martinez Maqueda

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Founding Database Engineer at tonbo.io

  • Working on the next iteration of tonbo to make it the most flexible in-process analytical database in the market that scales and is operated with strong availability

  • Introduced object scope cache to the remote storage layer to avoid I/O churn

  • Working on refactoring WAL to support remote storage

  • Taking care of the health of the systems as well as designing the operational story and bringing them to production

  • Technologies: LSM, WAL, Arrow, Parquet, Rust

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Florian Wede

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Software Engineer

Hamburg
Florian Wede

Last position:

Software Engineer at micimo GmbH

  • Developing a professional scheduler for organizations with specific detailed requirements
  • Evaluating different existing software solutions
  • Creating a list of technical requirements
  • Implementing these requirements
  • Selected technologies: WebDAV, CalDAV, Rust, Baikal, OAuth, Keycloak
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Moritz Freyburger

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AWS Developer/DevOps Engineer (Energy Trading)

Ilsfeld
Moritz Freyburger

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AWS Developer/DevOps Engineer (Energy Trading) at RWE Supply & Trading GmbH

  • Further development and partial new development of a distributed cloud application for providing data in energy trading
  • Independent implementation of the infrastructure (IaC)
  • Creation of automated CI/CD pipelines, containers, REST APIs, and Lambdas
  • Continuous cost and performance optimization
  • Collaboration in an international Scrum team and with experts in energy trading
  • Technologies: C#/ASP.NET Core; EF Core; PostgreSQL; Terraform/AWS CloudFormation; HTTP; REST/Web API; Swagger/OpenAPI; Azure DevOps; Rider; VS Code; git; Docker; AWS (S3, EC2, Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, VPCs, ALB/NLB, RDS, Cloudwatch, AWS CLI, Amazon MQ); Redis; OAuth; OpenID Connect
  • Languages: C#; TypeScript; HCL; Docker; Bash; PowerShell; YML; JSON
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Ralph Konitzer

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Product Owner / Business Owner

Rommerskirchen
Ralph Konitzer

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Product Owner / Business Owner at AXIS Management Consulting GmbH

  • Full product responsibility from a business perspective: requirement analysis, UX design, product strategy, and go-to-market implemented without an internal dev team using fully AI-supported development (Claude Code / Anthropic)
  • Technical differentiation: KRITIS-compliant air-gapped deployment (Windows/NSIS), GDT interface for PVS integration, DATEV-LODAS export for payroll
  • Managed pilot operation with initial external client (Dormagen medical practice): structured requirement gathering, test support, error analysis, and release management
  • Developed rollout and sales strategy for market entry in the segment of private practices and small medical centers
  • Human-in-the-Loop development principle: business decision → AI implementation → manual review → approval → release – each sprint documented in Jira (TIME project), every change traceable via co-authored commits
  • Product outcome: Tauri/Rust desktop app with GDT watcher, multi-tier model (Starter/Professional/Enterprise), cloud mirror on Hetzner/Traefik, complete ISMS framework based on ISO 27001 and BSI basic protection as product foundation
  • Direct method validation for the test manager role: hands-on experience with quality assurance of AI-generated products from a user perspective, review gate discipline, release approval under GDPR and the EU AI Act
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Sebastian Striebig

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Group Product Manager – Digital Platform Discovery

Berlin
Sebastian Striebig

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Group Product Manager – Digital Platform Discovery at SPREAD.AI

  • Developed and implemented organization-wide discovery framework based on Ulwick’s Outcome-Driven Innovation; enabled 7 Product Owners to systematically identify and quantify unrealized value through shared outcome language and opportunity scoring methodology
  • Transformed Product Owner role from backlog clerks to strategic experimenters; established dedicated time budget for autonomous hypothesis testing and discovery activities
  • Rebuilt customer journey maps to start at actual user need (tool selection phase) instead of platform entry point; eliminated manual data aggregation work previously done by project teams
  • Implemented OKR framework across 4 product teams; defined quarterly objectives with measurable key results (e.g., 40% reduction in manual integration effort, self-service adoption increase)
  • Unified 3 separate platform roadmaps through cross-team dependency mapping and shared service agreements
  • Supported enterprise sales cycle with ROI modeling and technical due diligence for automotive and defense customers

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Statistics of experts using Rust

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

19 years

Position duration

3.1 years

Positions per freelancer

11

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries

Information Technology, Automotive, Manufacturing

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

96%

Master's degree or higher

64%

Doctorate

16%

Certifications per freelancer

2

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

96%

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

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Average rates of experts in Germany using Rust

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

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Daily rate avg. 754 €

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Median rate 800 €

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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

What Rust is

Rust is a systems programming language built for speed, memory safety, and control. Companies use it for backend services, infrastructure tools, embedded software, and command-line utilities where reliability matters. It is often chosen when C or C++ feel too risky, but performance still has to stay high.

Typical work

  • High-throughput APIs and microservices
  • Performance-critical services and workers
  • CLI tools and developer tooling
  • Networking, protocol, and runtime work
  • Embedded or cross-platform software

Rust also fits teams that need predictable behavior under load. In Germany, it shows up in product engineering, industrial software, fintech, and infrastructure-heavy environments.

Ecosystem

The Rust ecosystem centers on Cargo, crates.io, and a strong package and testing workflow. Common building blocks include Tokio for async work, Actix Web and Axum for web services, Serde for data handling, and Clippy and rustfmt for code quality. Strong specialists know when to stay within the standard library and when to add a crate.

When freelancers help

Companies bring in freelance Rust specialists when a service must be stabilized, a prototype needs to become production-ready, or a team needs help with low-level design. They are also valuable for migrations from C, C++, or Go, and for hard performance or safety problems. Remote work is common, but on-site collaboration in Germany can help with embedded systems or tight hardware access.

What strong specialists do

A strong Rust professional writes clear ownership-driven code, uses the type system well, and keeps error handling explicit. They understand lifetimes, concurrency, async patterns, and practical testing. They also review unsafe code carefully, because the best Rust work is not just fast, but easy to maintain.

Hiring signals

  • Memory bugs or race conditions are slowing delivery
  • A service needs better latency or lower resource use
  • The team is moving from C, C++, or another language
  • Build and dependency management need discipline
  • Production code needs safer concurrency

In Germany, hiring usually works well when the specialist can communicate clearly in English and, when needed, work with local teams in German. That matters most for embedded work, internal tools, and projects that blend software with hardware or operations.

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Frequently asked questions

Questions about Rust? Start with the answers below.

Rust is used for software that needs speed, safety, and tight control over memory. Companies use it for backend services, CLI tools, infrastructure components, networking code, and embedded software. It is a strong fit when reliability matters and low-level mistakes are expensive.

Rust is often chosen when a team wants C++-level performance without the same memory-risk profile. Compared with Go, it gives more control over allocation, concurrency, and runtime behavior. The tradeoff is a steeper learning curve, so the right specialist matters.

A strong Rust specialist should be comfortable with ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, and async programming. For many projects, they also need experience with Cargo, Serde, Tokio, and at least one web framework such as Actix Web or Axum. Testing, benchmarking, and code review habits matter too.

A small utility may only need a specialist who knows the language well and can move quickly. A production service, a migration from C or C++, or an async system usually needs deeper experience with design, performance, and concurrency. The more safety or latency risk there is, the more valuable senior Rust experience becomes.

Yes. Rust work is often done remotely because most of the toolchain is easy to share and review online. On-site collaboration is more useful when the work involves embedded hardware, lab setups, or close coordination with local stakeholders in Germany.

Look for clear ownership, simple error handling, and careful use of types. Good Rust code avoids unnecessary unsafe blocks, keeps concurrency understandable, and uses tests to protect the tricky parts. Clean module structure and readable naming are strong signs that the specialist understands maintainability.

Rust is usually a better fit when performance, reliability, or memory control are central concerns. JavaScript and Python are often faster to start with, while Java can be a good middle ground for larger service teams. Rust stands out when the system must stay efficient under load or close to the metal.

Many Rust specialists also know async runtimes, testing tools, profiling, and CI workflows. Depending on the project, they may need Docker, Linux internals, PostgreSQL, WebAssembly, or embedded and networking concepts. That broader context helps them ship code that works well outside the editor.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Rust in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 754 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Rust in their recent projects, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 64% hold at least a Master's degree, and 16% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Rust in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.1 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Rust in their recent projects are German (98%), English (96%), and French (17%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Rust in their recent projects are Information Technology (87%), Automotive (48%), and Manufacturing (41%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Rust in their recent projects are Information Technology (98%), Product Development (87%), and Quality Assurance (54%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Rust

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg

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