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Vili D.

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Senior Data Engineer, Data Architect, Software Developer

Neuenhagen
Vili D.

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Technical Lead, Data Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Consulting

  • Optimized the data architecture (Medallion) to better decouple processing steps and improve transparency and reproducibility

  • Ensured the technical quality of data processing in Databricks by introducing schema enforcement, data quality checks, and a structured data architecture

  • Pipeline orchestration with Azure Data Factory

  • Improved and automated the development and deployment process by integrating Git and GitHub Actions

  • Technical leadership of the Data Engineering team (3 employees)

  • Led workshops to optimize and stabilize the data platform and development process

  • Collected and prioritized new requests and maintained the product backlog

  • Technologies: Microsoft Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory), Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark), Python, SQL, Git, Confluence, Power BI, Power Apps, Dataverse, MS Sharepoint, Mural

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Mansharan K.

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Senior Analytics Engineer and BI Platform Owner

Berlin
Mansharan K.

Last position:

MS Fabric | Power BI Consultant at Gropyus Technologies GmbH

  • Architected an enterprise Fabric-based data-product governance framework, authoring data contracts and schema-validation KPIs to enforce completeness, freshness and SLA standards across reporting data products.
  • Operationalized pipeline observability by integrating Dagster orchestration data into automated data-health reporting, proactively validating data integrity and pipeline reliability before production reporting layers refresh.
  • Established BI-as-Code and end-to-end governance through Git-based version control, CI/CD and Alpha→GA release management, strengthening lineage, schema-drift detection and production change traceability.
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Stefan O.

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AI Product Leader

Berlin
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.

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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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Alexander Z.

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Senior Data Architect & Data Engineer

Berlin
Alexander Z.

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Senior Data Solutions Engineer at VMware Inc.

  • Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
  • Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
  • Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
  • Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.
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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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Dmitry P.

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Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst

Berlin
Dmitry P.

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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.
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Christian P.

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Project Manager

Berlin
Christian P.

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Project Manager at Kreis Segeberg

  • WiNOWiG enhancements (digitalization & organization)
  • Project management for the WiNOWiG project (regulatory offenses)
  • Process optimization and coordination
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Michael B.

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Senior Data Analytics Consultant

Berlin
Michael B.

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Product Analytics Consultant - Trust & Safety at Kleinanzeigen

  • Detecting fraud patterns and implementing effective anti-fraud rules while maintaining acceptable false positive rates to ensure a balance between safety and a frictionless user experience
  • Supporting ideation and roll-out of new trust and safety features to the platform to block fraudulent activity and increase user awareness for fraud
  • Supporting Product, Development and Customer Support with BI reports and further guidance to identify and fight fraud and policy violations
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Nitin B.

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Data & Analytics Leader

Berlin
Nitin B.

Last position:

Financial Analytics Lead at Independent Consultant

Led FP&A tech transformation for a 9-figure business – from resolving legacy technical debt to leading AI-native EPM implementation

  • Driving end-to-end FP&A transformation, from architecture redesign through EPM tool selection to rollout
  • Ran evaluation of 12+ EPM platforms, from vendor negotiation to selection framework tied to long-term planning
  • Diagnosed constraints in financial planning architecture, presented findings to the CFO, and secured executive mandate to redesign FP&A infrastructure from the ground up
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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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Nisanthan S.

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BI-Consultant

Berlin
Nisanthan S.

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Business Intelligence Consultant (freelance) at NBIC – Nisanthan BI Consulting

  • Advising companies on building, migrating and optimising BI and reporting landscapes (Power BI, SQL, Python, ETL)

  • 5 client engagements in real estate and finance since 05/2025: taking over and stabilising existing reporting, automating recurring standard and management reports, building cash-flow models

  • Proposal and feasibility assessments for BI and reporting projects

  • Using AI-assisted development (Claude Code) to accelerate automation, tooling and web/app development

  • Custom ERP system

  • Problem: A client's core processes ran on scattered, siloed Excel files with no central data storage – error-prone, hard to scale and impossible to analyse end-to-end.

  • Approach: Captured the business processes and requirements, modelled the data and developed iteratively together with the business team.

  • Implementation: Built a tailored, web-based ERP system with a central database, role-based modules and automated reporting – delivered using AI-assisted development in Claude Code.

  • Timesheet app

  • Starting point: Time tracking based on an overgrown, macro-heavy Excel template – maintenance-intensive, single-user and error-prone.

  • Implementation: Migrated all functionality and VBA macros into a standalone web app with central data storage, multi-user support and automated reporting.

  • Cash-flow modelling

  • Starting point: The existing cash-flow model covered standing investments only; project developments were missing from steering.

  • Implementation: Built and extended the CF model to include project-development cash flows.

  • Optimisation: Reviewed and optimised existing CF models and expanded the KPI outputs for reporting and steering.

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Gilad G.

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Applied Research | Decision Support | Investigation & Methodology

Berlin
Gilad G.

Last position:

European Strategy Atlas – Independent Analytics & Decision-Support Project at Independent Project

Designed and built an end-to-end interactive decision-support application using public European data across 27 EU countries and multiple strategic dimensions. Developed a structured analytical methodology for comparing countries, identifying patterns and trade-offs, and exploring strategic choices rather than presenting static dashboards. Translated complex multidimensional data into guided interactive exploration and learning workflows for non-specialist users. Built the application end-to-end using Python and Streamlit, with AI-assisted development and Git-based version control. Developed the project independently from problem framing and data analysis through methodology, UX logic, implementation and deployment.

Tools: Python, Streamlit, Git, AI-assisted development

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Abdulla A.

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Product & Tech Consultant

Berlin
Abdulla A.

Last position:

Principal AI Product Consultant at Recare

  • Shipped Recare Voice Desktop from 0 to 1 in two months, including multi-language clinical documentation that auto-transcribes into structured German medical notes.
  • Reduced LLM inference costs by 60–70% across Docs and Extract through prompt caching architecture.
  • Built the AI workbench used by PMs/engineers for prompt experimentation and the Langfuse eval stack (10k+ traces evaluated).

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Statistics of experts using SQL

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

15 years (Germany: 19 years)

SQL experts in Berlin have 15 years of professional experience on average. It is 4 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 19 years.

Position duration

2.2 years (Germany: 5.1 years)

SQL experts in Berlin stay in a single position for 2.2 years on average. It is 2.9 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 5.1 years.

Positions per freelancer

9 (Germany: 12)

SQL experts in Berlin have completed 9 positions on average over the course of their careers. It is 3 fewer than in Germany, where the average stands at 12.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

SQL experts in Berlin have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Business Intelligence.

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services

SQL experts in Berlin are most in demand in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Professional Services.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

SQL experts in Berlin earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

95% (Germany: 90%)

95% of SQL experts in Berlin hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 5% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 90%.

Master's degree or higher

66% (Germany: 61%)

66% of SQL experts in Berlin hold at least a Master's degree. It is 5% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 61%.

Doctorate

8% (Germany: 9%)

8% of SQL experts in Berlin have a doctorate (PhD). It is 1% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 9%.

Certifications per freelancer

2 (Germany: 3)

SQL 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

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

Speak two or more languages

97%

97% of SQL experts in Berlin speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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10% of SQL experts in Berlin charge less than €400 per day.
46% of SQL experts in Berlin charge between €400 and €800 per day.
34% of SQL experts in Berlin charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
7% of SQL experts in Berlin charge between €1200 and €1600 per day.
3% of SQL 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 SQL

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

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Daily rate avg. 714 €
Germany avg. 753 €

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 760 €

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.

SQL 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 (86%)
  • Banking and Finance (40%)
  • Professional Services (34%)
  • Education (32%)
  • Retail (32%)
  • Healthcare (28%)
  • Manufacturing (27%)
  • Automotive (27%)

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

About the technology

Relational Database Engineering Across Modern Stacks

Structured Query Language remains the foundation of enterprise data persistence, reporting, and operational processing. Organizations rely on it to enforce transactional consistency, maintain referential integrity, and extract actionable business intelligence across varied transactional and analytical workloads.

Core Dialects and Surrounding Ecosystem

Production deployments involve specific dialects tailored to engine internals and infrastructure requirements:

  • PostgreSQL and MySQL for scalable web backends and microservice persistence
  • Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database for enterprise transaction environments
  • Snowflake, BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift for columnar analytics warehousing
  • dbt and Flyway for database migration workflows and transformation modeling

Typical Project Engagements in Berlin

Berlin's diverse tech landscape—spanning fintech scale-ups, e-commerce platforms, and logistics hubs—frequently calls for focused freelance database intervention. Typical initiatives include audit-ready schema restructuring, decoupling monolithic transactional stores into domain-specific databases, and optimizing analytical queries across international operations.

Performance Optimization and Query Tuning

High-load production platforms frequently encounter degraded throughput from unindexed scans, locks, and inefficient joins. Database professionals identify bottlenecks via execution plans, implement targeted indexing strategies like B-tree or GiST, and configure connection pools to sustain demanding traffic without hardware expansion.

Strategic Schema Modeling and Migrations

Evolving data models requires careful planning to prevent service disruptions and silent regressions:

  • Zero-downtime table alterations and phased data backfills
  • Normalization to third normal form alongside strategic denormalization
  • Data integrity enforcement through foreign keys, checks, and domain constraints
  • Partitioning strategies for high-volume time-series or event datasets

Distinguishing Attributes of Senior Database Specialists

Top practitioners look beyond functional syntax. They evaluate engine-level storage mechanisms, buffer caches, and isolation levels. They collaborate closely with distributed engineering teams in Berlin and across Europe, writing maintainable migrations and setting up continuous performance regression testing.

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Frequently asked questions

The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to SQL.

While most backend developers write basic queries, a dedicated SQL specialist understands internal execution engines, optimizer mechanics, and lock contention. They design resilient data models, diagnose disk I/O bottlenecks, and resolve complex performance issues that simple ORM frameworks generate.

Most professionals work fluently with PostgreSQL and MySQL, which power a large portion of Berlin tech products. Many also bring advanced capabilities in enterprise systems like Microsoft SQL Server and cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake or Amazon Redshift.

Yes. A seasoned Structured Query Language practitioner can often improve system response times by analyzing execution plans, adding composite indexes, and rewriting database views. They resolve these issues without requiring disruptive changes to your core application business logic.

Teams select SQL engines when ACID transactions, strict schema enforcement, and flexible querying across relational entities are essential. When data structures are largely unstructured or require simple key-value lookups at horizontal scale, NoSQL options can serve as a complement rather than a direct replacement.

Strong SQL professionals usually manage migration tooling such as Liquibase, Flyway, or dbt. They write infrastructure-as-code scripts for cloud database instances, configure replication topologies, and automate performance monitoring with tools like Prometheus or Datadog.

Most optimization and schema design work runs entirely remotely with secure VPN or bastion host access. However, for sensitive fintech projects or workshops in Berlin, many specialists offer hybrid arrangements to collaborate on-site during critical cutover periods.

English is the standard technical language across Berlin startups and international engineering hubs, covering query reviews, documentation, and sprint ceremonies. For local public sector or traditional enterprise contexts, fluency in German is often readily available among local experts.

Evaluate their mastery of ANSI SQL standards, window functions, and indexing theory during technical assessments. High-caliber specialists present past migration blueprints, demonstrate how they handled concurrency issues, and explain trade-offs made between write throughput and read performance.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects is 89 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 714 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects, 95% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 66% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects are English (98%), German (96%), and Spanish (13%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (86%), Banking and Finance (40%), and Professional Services (34%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (85%), Product Development (80%), and Business Intelligence (59%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SQL

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