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Florian Rubel

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Senior Fullstack Developer

Köln
Florian Rubel

Last position:

Senior Fullstack Developer at Ivii GmbH

  • Two-month modernization of the management UI for AI-powered cameras
  • Rewrote a complex React application to Vue 3 with single file components
  • Set up the core architecture of the Vue application and configured Vite, Pinia, Router, I18n, ESLint, and Prettier
  • Custom integration of Leaflet to display detection zones on images
  • Assisted with backend extension and authentication adjustments
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Dirk Hesse

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Owner

Köln
Dirk Hesse

Last position:

Owner at Soorce GmbH

  • On secondment to REWE digital GmbH
  • Agile team coach for a brick-and-mortar retail team
  • Coaching, lateral leadership and facilitation
  • Establishing agile values and applying agile methods
  • Team development and conflict moderation
  • Facilitating company-wide strategy workshops
  • Technologies: Kanban, Scrum, Microsoft Teams, Liberating Structures, Jira, Confluence, Concept Board, Miro, Test-Driven Development, OOP, DBMS (SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL)
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Jacqueline Haefke

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Düsseldorf
Jacqueline Haefke

Last position:

Kitchen Appliance Manufacturer

  • Setting up and enhancing an international subscription management system

  • Migrating and decommissioning a Hybris-SAP system and integrating Zuora

  • Implementing numerous interfaces to various systems (external and internal)

  • Setting up and improving monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and Databricks

  • Introducing logging with Loki

  • Implementing business requirements using jQuery, Thymeleaf, Spring Boot, Java, Go, and Python

  • Adjusting and extending the GitLab CI pipelines

  • Setting up and extending infrastructure as code with Terraform and ArgoCD on AWS

  • Setting up and running E2E and performance tests

  • Expanding the Databricks business intelligence solution to provide various KPIs

  • Responsibilities: Architecture, DevOps, development, unit tests, coaching employees and apprentices, E2E, smoke, and integration tests, agile methods consulting (Kanban, Scrum)

  • Technologies and methods: Java, Go, Kotlin, Node.js, Spring Boot, SOAP/REST, Quarkus, Thymeleaf, Vaadin, Slack, Jira, Confluence, IntelliJ, GitLab, SQS, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Maven, Gradle, GitLab CI, Databricks

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Kay Odenthal

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Fullstack Developer

Köln
Kay Odenthal

Last position:

Fullstack Developer at INIT GmbH

  • Development of monitoring and control systems for public transport
  • Development of a platform for real-time monitoring of passenger information and ticketing systems and an application for remote control and status monitoring of access systems
  • Development of dynamic forms, complex tables, real-time dashboards (SignalR), and reusable components in the frontend (using Storybook)
  • Implementation of REST interfaces in the backend
  • Deployment to Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Technologies used: Angular 20, Angular Material 3, Dev Extreme, Storybook, C#/.NET 10
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Annick Walkenhorst

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Freelance Senior Frontend Developer

Rösrath
Annick Walkenhorst

Last position:

Freelance Senior Frontend Developer at ROSE Bikes GmbH

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Alexander Stier

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TYPO3 Senior Fullstack Developer, Backend & Frontend

Bergisch Gladbach
Alexander Stier

Last position:

TYPO3 Senior Fullstack Developer, Backend & Frontend at Vergleich.de Gesellschaft für Verbraucherinformation mbH via HALIAN GmbH

  • Typoscript
  • Extbase
  • Fluid
  • Typescript
  • requireJS
  • WebVital

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Statistics of experts using Sass

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

18 years (Germany: 16 years)

Position duration

2.4 years (Germany: 2.3 years)

Positions per freelancer

11 (Germany: 12)

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Top industries

Information Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

100% (Germany: 86%)

Master's degree or higher

50% (Germany: 34%)

Certifications per freelancer

3 (Germany: 2)

Most common languages

German, English, Persian

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 98%)

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Cologne are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

Average rates of experts in Cologne using Sass

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

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Daily rate avg. 794 €
Germany avg. 727 €

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 800 €
Germany median 720 €

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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

What Sass does

Sass is a CSS preprocessor that helps teams write styles in a clearer, more scalable way. It adds nesting, variables, mixins, functions, and partials, while still compiling to standard CSS for browsers. Many teams use it to keep large interface codebases consistent.

Common project work

  • Build or refactor SCSS structure for apps and websites
  • Set up design tokens and shared variables
  • Create reusable mixins, functions, and component styles
  • Organize partials for teams that ship many UI screens

Tooling and workflow

Strong Sass work usually sits inside a broader front-end workflow. Professionals often pair it with webpack, Vite, npm scripts, PostCSS, and style linting. They also know how to keep compiled CSS predictable across environments and avoid selector bloat.

Why companies hire help

Teams bring in freelance Sass specialists when styles have grown messy, when a redesign needs a safe migration, or when multiple products need one shared system. In Cologne, this often comes up in agency work, commerce projects, and internal product teams that need clean handoffs between design and front end.

What strong specialists do well

Good Sass experts write styles that are easy to read and easy to change. They use nesting with restraint, keep variables meaningful, and build components that do not break when the interface changes. They also understand when plain CSS is the better choice.

Signs you need Sass expertise

  • Your stylesheets are hard to navigate
  • Repeated code appears across many components
  • Theme changes take too long
  • The team needs a clearer style architecture
  • Your SCSS build step is unstable or confusing
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Frequently asked questions

What clients ask us most about Sass — answered in short.

Sass is used to write maintainable styles for websites, web apps, and design systems. It helps teams split large style codebases into partials, reuse values with variables, and create mixins and functions for repeated patterns. The result is still plain CSS, so it fits standard browser delivery.

Sass is the style language family, and SCSS is its most common syntax today. Most teams say “Sass” when they really mean SCSS, because the syntax looks close to CSS and is easier to adopt. If a project mentions Sass, it often expects SCSS files and a build step that compiles them.

A strong Sass specialist helps when styles have become inconsistent, a redesign needs structured cleanup, or a design system is being introduced. They are also useful when a team is migrating old stylesheets to SCSS, or when build and linting rules need to be tightened. The main goal is cleaner, safer style code.

A Sass professional usually also knows CSS architecture, responsive design, and modern front-end tooling. Common adjacent skills include PostCSS, webpack, Vite, npm scripts, and style linting. They should also understand how designers, component libraries, and theme tokens fit together.

Sass adds structure and reuse on top of CSS, which is helpful in larger projects. Plain CSS can be enough for smaller sites or tightly scoped components, but it gets harder to manage as repeated patterns grow. Sass is strongest when many screens, themes, or teams share the same styles.

A good Sass portfolio should show clean SCSS structure, not just pretty screens. Look for work with component-based styles, reusable mixins, clear variable naming, and sensible organization of partials. Strong specialists can explain why they chose one pattern over another.

Yes, Sass work is usually easy to do remotely because it lives in the codebase and build pipeline. For Cologne teams, remote collaboration works well when the specialist can review designs, join planning sessions, and hand over styles clearly. On-site time can help during workshops, but it is rarely required.

With Sass, red flags include deep nesting, copied rules, unclear variable naming, and styles that only work for one page. A weak specialist may also ignore the build step or leave behind code that is hard to extend. Good work should make the stylesheet easier to maintain, not just compile successfully.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Sass in their recent projects is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 794 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Sass in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 50% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Sass in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Sass in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Persian (14%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Sass in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Retail (71%), and Banking and Finance (43%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Sass in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Business Intelligence (43%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Sass

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.

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