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Christian Fritsch

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Architecture Management

Waldesch
Christian Fritsch

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Architecture Management at Agency

  • Expert in the company's architecture management area

  • Support for standardizing the company's IT landscape

  • Further development of architecture management

  • Shaping the company's business architecture

  • Restructuring, administration and maintenance of all IT assets

  • Support in creating a unified software asset management and CMDB

  • Creation of unified document management (e-file)

  • Transition of documents into a central DMS structure

  • Link between architecture management and the department's internal business process management

  • Support in developing strategic and tactical development plans

  • Organizing communication with key stakeholders

  • Support in the conception, organization and coordination of the architecture office to be built up

  • Accompanying and advising the entire architecture management process

  • Advising the company's business units on architectural topics and their framework conditions

  • MS Office, Windows 10, VBA

  • ITIL, TOGAF, PowerBi, Kanban, Scrum

  • Internal agency tools

  • Open Touch Conversation, Webex, wire, bdbos

  • MS Sharepoint, JIRA, Confluence

  • ARIS, Archimate, BPMN

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Tobias Mönch

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Product Owner, Scrum Master, Project Manager

Oebisfelde-Weferlingen
Tobias Mönch

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Power BI Expert at MID-SIZED RETAIL COMPANY FOR CLEANING TECHNOLOGY AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS

Reporting and controlling with Power BI for a productive ERP system

  • Analysis of ERP data and interfaces for use in Power BI dashboards
  • Evaluation and migration of existing reports (e.g. Excel) to Power BI
  • Development of an access rights concept for selective data access
  • Documentation and training on how to use and adapt the Power BI dashboards

Label: Power BI, Excel, SelectLine ERP, Microsoft SQL, SQL Server Management Studio

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Alwin G.

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Head of IT

Essen
Alwin G.

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IT Interim Manager & AI Strategist

  • AI product development: Design of an AI-supported GRC platform to automate compliance processes.
  • AI expertise: Strategic deepening in Agentic AI and GenAI as a core asset for modern IT governance
  • IT interim management and strategic consulting
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Markus Halbedel

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Senior IT Infrastructure, Cloud & Security Consultant

Kaufbeuren
Markus Halbedel

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Senior M365 Consultant at BITMARCK GmbH

Creation of concepts for M365 implementation, especially Tenants, EntraID, EntraConnect and ExchangeOnline, taking BAS standards into account (mandatory baseline security requirements) in the project "Concept M365" with the aim of transferring the concepts to the M365 environments of Bitmarck and then handing them over to the customer.

  • Creation of a current-state analysis of the existing M365 environments as well as the on-premises environments and the BAS standards.
  • Creation of concepts for the topics Tenants, EntraID, EntraConnect and ExchangeOnline taking the BAS standards into account
  • Design and implementation of an automated solution for creating standardized M365 tenants based on Microsoft M365 DSC (Desired State Configuration)
  • Transfer of the concepts into the M365 environments
  • Creation of detailed technical documentation
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Jens Henneberg

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Interim CTO / CDO & Enterprise Architect | AI Compliance & EU AI Act, Azure AI Foundry | Lawyer & Computer Scientist

Wathlingen
Jens Henneberg

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Interim CTO (occasional assignments) at Fujitsu / FSAS

Stabilizing an Azure/.NET landscape in live operation.

  • Architecture, DevOps, and operational readiness; technical decisions under time pressure
  • Azure DevOps, monitoring, ETL/ELT, cloud security, FinOps, and data-mesh-related topics

Technologies: Azure DevOps, .NET, CI/CD, monitoring, FinOps

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Dmitry Pankov

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Freelance Digital Marketing Analyst

Berlin
Dmitry Pankov

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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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Fadi Shoaa

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AI Engineer | Microsoft Fabric | Data Engineering | Enterprise AI | Document AI

Oberhausen
Fadi Shoaa

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Development of a production-ready Enterprise Document AI & Recommendation Platform at Freelancer

  • Development of a production-ready Enterprise AI solution for the automated processing of invoices and business documents
  • Integration of Azure AI Document Intelligence and LLM technologies into existing business processes
  • Development of robust REST APIs for automated document processing and system integration
  • Extraction, validation, and storage of structured invoice data in Azure SQL as a base for analytics and machine learning models
  • Development of an AI-based recommendation engine with machine learning and deep learning to generate personalized product recommendations based on historical purchase data
  • Implementation of logging, monitoring, error handling, and validation mechanisms for stable production use
  • Collaboration with business teams to define business rules and integrate the solution into existing enterprise processes

Technologies: Python, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL Database, REST APIs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, OCR, Pandas, JSON, Workflow Automation

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Swetha Banuvaram

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Project Management

Stuttgart
Swetha Banuvaram

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Project Management at the sandblasters GmbH

  • Planning and concept development for building a new business model, including structuring and implementing business processes.
  • Coordination and management of external service providers as well as interface management.
  • Introduction and implementation of new digital tools and processes to optimize operational workflows.
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Rudolf Eggelbusch

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Datacenter Engineer, Network & Security Administrator

Ratingen
Rudolf Eggelbusch

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Datacenter Engineer, Network & Security Administrator at International insurance group

  • Operation and further development of the network and security infrastructure.

  • Monitoring, analysis and resolution of network and security incidents.

  • Cross-department collaboration with other specialist teams for operations, further development and reporting.

  • Firewall vulnerability analysis.

  • Firewall rule approvals.

  • Troubleshooting IP communication issues in the network and firewall infrastructure.

  • Security-critical IT infrastructure, processing of personal data, compliance with legal regulations.

  • Products: Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Cisco ACI, Checkpoint Firewalls, F5

  • Technologies: SDN, SDWAN, Cisco EPIC, Cisco ACI

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Maciej Sawicki

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Product Owner

Nuremberg
Maciej Sawicki

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Product Owner at Bundesagentur für Arbeit

  • As part of the project, the further development of the identity management system was driven forward. This included a comprehensive refactoring of the interfaces to the connected target systems. In addition, several special systems were successfully connected to the IAM to ensure end-to-end identity and authorization management.
  • Technical design and solution proposals for IAM system development
  • Requirements analysis and requirements management (IREB, BABOK)
  • Alignment of the strategy with the future target architecture (TOGAF)
  • Prototyping of solutions
  • Documentation of requirements (Innovator)
  • Analysis and documentation of requirements and creation of process models (UML, BPMN, ArchiMate)
  • Modeling of requirements and system functionalities (OOA/OOD, UML)
  • Further development of interfaces (SOAP, REST)
  • Carrying out architecture reviews
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Karen Manukyan

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Senior .NET Backend Engineer | Applied AI | Agentic Systems, RAG & Distributed Architecture

Munich
Karen Manukyan

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Personal AI Engineering Project — Croky AI at Crocky AI

Product:

  • Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
  • Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
  • Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
  • Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
  • Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.

Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems

  • Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
  • Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.
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Wolfgang Orgler

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DI

Freilassing
Wolfgang Orgler

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Business Analyst at DekaBank

Lead Business Analyst – Analysis and optimization of private banking processes

  • Responsibility for the business analysis and further development of business processes in private banking, with a focus on CRM, customer data management, and master data processes

  • Carrying out a comprehensive business process analysis to identify optimization potential, business gaps, and improvement opportunities along the customer lifecycle

  • Gathering, analyzing, and structuring business requirements in close cooperation with business units, management, IT architecture, and development teams

  • Creating and aligning business concepts, process models, user stories, and requirement documentation as the basis for technical implementation

  • Analyzing and optimizing existing master data processes with a focus on data quality, responsibilities, and efficient data maintenance

  • Designing and further developing CRM customer data processes while taking regulatory requirements and business goals into account

  • Planning and moderating workshops with business, IT, and stakeholders for requirements analysis, process design, and solution finding

  • Managing requirements and ensuring consistent communication between business and IT

  • Using AI-supported analysis tools to help with requirements analysis, structuring information, and improving documentation quality

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Franz Bauer

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Program Lead • Portfolio Manager • Digitalization & Transformation

Munich
Franz Bauer

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Product Development (AI) at Own initiative

AI telephone assistant platform

Claude Code, Google AI Studio, Python, LLM / Voice-AI, PostgreSQL

  • Conception and hands-on development of an AI-supported telephone assistant platform (voice AI / LLM) – from idea and architecture to MVP/product.
  • Built agentic workflows and full automations with Claude Code and Google AI Studio.
  • Also delivered AI-supported work in client engagements: used Claude Code for governance documentation, requirement drafts, and automations.
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Karin Albiez

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Language Expert – Python Developer – AI Engineer

Leonberg
Karin Albiez

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AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German at Lilt

  • Task Engineering: Evaluating Coding Agents.
  • Asset Creation: Building realistic task environments using datasets and files in German. Crucially, these assets must remain in the target language to genuinely measure multilingual handling.
  • Prompting & Translation: finding failure points where AI does not work, in German.
  • Implementation & Verification: Supporting the development of robust solutions (reference implementations) and write highly reliable, deterministic verifier scripts (using rubric-based judging only when strictly necessary).
  • Calibration & Execution: Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty (Easy to Very Hard) using standard Terminal-Bench run configurations against various model tiers (Haiku, Opus).
  • Quality Assurance: Participation in a rigorous, 4-layer human quality control process (creation, human review, calibration review, and audit) alongside automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity.
  • Linguistic Review: Reviewing AI benchmark tasks across Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Czech and Turkish.

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Statistics of experts using SQL

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

19 years

Position duration

5.2 years

Positions per freelancer

12

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Bachelor's degree or higher

89%

Master's degree or higher

59%

Doctorate

9%

Certifications per freelancer

3

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

97%

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

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Average rates of experts in Germany using SQL

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

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Daily rate avg. 756 €

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

About the technology

Core language

SQL, short for Structured Query Language, is the standard language for working with relational data. Experts use it to query, filter, join, and change data in systems like PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle Database.

Typical work

  • Build reporting queries and data extracts
  • Create views, stored procedures, and triggers
  • Clean and reshape data for analytics
  • Support migrations and schema changes
  • Diagnose slow queries and broken joins

Tooling and dialects

Strong specialists know more than basic SELECT statements. They work with SQL dialects such as T-SQL and PL/SQL, understand indexes, execution plans, transactions, and constraints, and often use tools like dbt, DBeaver, SSMS, or pgAdmin.

When to bring in help

Companies bring in freelance SQL experts when reporting is inconsistent, data models are messy, or application queries are too slow. They are also useful during audits, warehouse work, ETL changes, and database migrations in Germany, where teams often need clear documentation and smooth handover.

What strong experts do

Good SQL professionals think in data relationships, not just single tables. They write readable queries, protect data integrity, and spot edge cases in null handling, joins, and aggregations before they reach production.

Hiring signals

  • Many manual reports depend on one person
  • Query changes keep breaking dashboards
  • Performance problems come from the database layer
  • The team needs help with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle
  • Work must be done remotely or alongside local teams in Germany
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Frequently asked questions

Not sure where to start with SQL? These answers cover the essentials.

SQL is used to read, filter, join, and update data in relational databases. Companies rely on it for reporting, application data access, migration work, and analytics layers. It is also the base language behind many database tasks in PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle Database.

SQL is the query language; PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server are database systems that implement it with their own dialects. In practice, a freelancer often needs to know both the standard language and the database-specific features. That matters when a query must run on one system but be moved to another.

Bring in a SQL specialist when reports are slow, data logic is inconsistent, or a migration needs careful handling. External support is also useful when a team needs a second pair of eyes on joins, indexes, transactions, or schema design. That is common during short, focused database work.

A strong SQL freelancer usually understands data modeling, indexing, execution plans, and basic ETL flows. For many projects, knowledge of dbt, BI tools, scripting, and one database platform such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server is also important. Those skills help turn queries into stable, maintainable data work.

Not always, but even a small SQL task can fail if the data model is complex or the query affects production data. Simple reporting fixes may need only a solid specialist, while performance tuning, stored procedures, or migration scripts call for deeper experience. The real question is the risk around the data, not the size of the ticket.

Yes, most SQL work can be done remotely because the tasks are usually tied to database access, not a physical location. For companies in Germany, the important part is secure access, clear documentation, and overlap with the team when needed. On-site work only becomes useful when data ownership or stakeholder workshops are tightly coupled to local operations.

Look for clear query structure, careful use of joins and filters, and a habit of explaining trade-offs. A good SQL expert can describe why a query is slow, how indexes affect it, and what happens to the data when the statement runs. You should also expect clean handover notes and tests for critical changes.

Yes, often it is. SQL is the shared core, but T-SQL and PL/SQL add platform-specific logic for SQL Server and Oracle Database. If your project uses stored procedures, triggers, or database-side business rules, those dialects are usually part of the job.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 756 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 59% hold at least a Master's degree, and 9% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 5.2 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects are German (98%), English (96%), and French (19%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (86%), Banking and Finance (47%), and Manufacturing (42%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Product Development (73%), and Project Management (60%).

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