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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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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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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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Abdulla A.

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Product & Tech Consultant

Berlin
Abdulla A.

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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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Gilad G.

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Applied Research | Decision Support | Investigation & Methodology

Berlin
Gilad G.

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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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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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Anish G.

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Product Manager · B2B SaaS

Berlin
Anish G.

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GTM Intelligence Engine · Open Source

  • PROBLEM: GTM effort is guesswork across fragmented identities and channels, with no closed feedback loop.
  • BUILT: Cost-pyramid engine (L0–L3): identity resolution across ~25k entities, explainable intent scoring, and a closed decision loop (propose → execute → evaluate → learn) with calibration.
  • IMPACT: Shipped v1.3.1 with a live demo; 99% of operations resolve at the free L0 tier (CI-enforced); $0 to run without any API key.
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Pradeep S.

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Product & Platform Leader – AI/ML, Data, Automation & Enterprise Software

Berlin
Pradeep S.

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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.
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Kyle B.

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GTM & Commercial Strategy Consultant

Berlin
Kyle B.

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GTM Strategy Consultant at Black Bee Strategy

I partnered with pre-seed / seed stage founders as a go-to-market strategy lead.

  • Led ICP definition / customer discovery, established GTM playbook and implemented AI tools to improve process efficiency, growing ARR 7x in 12 months
  • Translated early traction into investor narratives, KPIs, and financial models, contributing to a $5M seed raise
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Nikolai G.

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Freelance AI & Data Science Lead | Healthcare, Life Sciences, Finance | Team Leadership, R/Python, LLM Systems

Berlin
Nikolai G.

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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.
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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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Saman S.

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Senior AI Product Manager & Strategist | GenAI, AdTech, MarTech, AI/ML

Berlin
Saman S.

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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.

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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, Product Development, Business Intelligence

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

Bachelor's degree or higher

96% (Germany: 90%)

96% of SQL experts in Berlin hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 6% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 90%.

Master's degree or higher

66% (Germany: 60%)

66% of SQL experts in Berlin hold at least a Master's degree. It is 6% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 60%.

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 9 Oct 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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9% of SQL experts in Berlin charge less than €400 per day.
46% of SQL experts in Berlin charge between €400 and €800 per day.
35% 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. 716 €
Germany avg. 755 €

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 9 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 (87%)
  • Banking and Finance (39%)
  • Professional Services (34%)
  • Education (32%)
  • Retail (31%)
  • Automotive (28%)
  • Healthcare (28%)
  • Manufacturing (27%)

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

About the technology

Core technology

SQL, short for Structured Query Language, is the standard language for working with relational data. Companies use it to define schemas, query records, combine information across tables and control updates safely. It supports transactional applications, analytics, reporting and operational data services.

Where it is used

SQL sits behind customer portals, finance systems, product databases, inventory tools and business intelligence workflows. Its role ranges from a small application database to a central layer connecting operational and analytical systems.

  • Design normalized relational data models
  • Create reporting queries and data extracts
  • Build procedures, views and database migrations
  • Diagnose slow queries and locking issues

Ecosystem and tooling

Strong SQL specialists work with database engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database. They understand indexes, constraints, transactions, execution plans and access control, and connect SQL work with tools such as dbt, Airflow, BI software and cloud warehouses. Familiarity with Python or application frameworks often supports the surrounding workflow.

When companies need help

Freelance expertise is useful when a database must be redesigned, a reporting layer is unreliable or performance drops as data grows. Specialists can also support migrations between engines, consolidate inconsistent schemas and establish repeatable data quality practices.

  • A new product needs a dependable relational foundation
  • Queries or dashboards return inconsistent results
  • A migration requires careful validation and rollback planning
  • Internal teams need focused support during a delivery phase

Working in Berlin

Berlin companies often combine SQL work with SaaS products, digital services, commerce, media and financial operations. A freelance specialist may collaborate remotely, work on site for discovery sessions or use a hybrid setup. Clarify communication language, access procedures and coordination with product, application and data teams before work begins.

What quality looks like

A capable professional starts with the business questions and existing data, not just the query syntax. They explain trade-offs, test edge cases, protect production data and document assumptions. Look for evidence of schema design, performance analysis, migration discipline and clear communication with people who use the resulting data.

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Frequently asked questions

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

SQL is used to store, retrieve, change and analyze structured data in relational databases. Companies rely on it for application features, financial records, customer information, reporting and integrations between business systems.

SQL databases organize data in related tables and provide strong consistency, constraints and expressive joins. NoSQL systems can be a better fit for flexible document structures, very high write volume or specialized access patterns, so the choice depends on data relationships and workload.

A strong SQL specialist may work with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Database, depending on the project. Experience with one engine transfers well, but syntax, indexing behavior, replication and administration practices still need to be checked for the selected system.

Professionals working with SQL often bring skills in data modeling, database performance, ETL pipelines, cloud warehouses and business intelligence. Python, dbt, Airflow, Git and data quality testing can also be important when SQL is part of a broader data workflow.

The right level depends on the risk and scope rather than the technology name alone. A reporting change may need focused query and validation skills, while a production migration or schema redesign calls for proven experience with transactions, rollback plans, security and performance.

Yes. SQL work is often well suited to remote collaboration when secure access, documentation and review processes are in place. Berlin teams should agree on working hours, communication language, data handling rules and when on-site sessions are useful.

Ask the professional to explain how they approach data modeling, query plans, test data and failure recovery. Good SQL work is readable, validated against business rules, efficient for its workload and safe to run in production.

Before using SQL, clarify the database engine, schema ownership, environment access, data sensitivity and expected deliverables. Also confirm whether the work covers queries, migrations, reporting, optimization or ongoing support, because each requires different testing and documentation.

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 716 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects, 96% 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 (87%), Banking and Finance (39%), 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 (81%), and Business Intelligence (59%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SQL

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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