XSLT Experts in Germany
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Khalid El Mansouri
Last position:
Lead Architect & Developer at kem-consulting
Development of an agent-based governance platform for the automated assurance of EU AI Act compliance and ODA-compliant orchestration of AI services in complex enterprise environments.
Design and implementation of an agent-based "Mission Control" framework (Aletheia Conductor) for autonomous state monitoring and process control.
Development of "Compliance-as-Code" (CaC) solutions based on OPA/Rego for system-wide enforcement of regulatory guardrails.
Integration of TM Forum ODA standards (TMF630, TMF622, TMF642) to ensure interoperability and standardization.
Building a highly available event-driven architecture using Redpanda and CloudEvents v1.0 for near-real-time event processing.
Implementation of an audit-proof "Evidence Chain" through cryptographic linking of trace logs in preparation for automated audits.
Tech Stack: Java 21 (Quarkus Native), TypeScript (Next.js), Redpanda (Kafka API), CloudEvents v1.0, OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego, TimescaleDB, ZincSearch, Redis, TM Forum ODA, Git, GitHub, Clean Code Development, Like-C4.
Ursula Helfer
Last position:
Subproject Lead & Scrum Master at DB Energie
Subproject management in an agile IT environment
Leading a software development team (10 employees)
- Leading a software development team with 10 employees
- Budget responsibility approx. 3 million Euros per year
- Conducting employee and job interviews
- Responsibility for resource planning (budget and employees)
- Digitalization of a web interface
- Regular reporting to clients and stakeholders (C-level)
- Product management: developing and implementing product strategies; defining requirements to steer product development
- Designing product development & continuous testing efficiently to quickly incorporate feedback & compliance points
- Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, define priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
- Project experience in an energy industry company, including the functioning of energy markets, the basics of energy generation and distribution, as well as current challenges and developments in the industry
- Project experience in the railway sector - including the structure and operation of railway systems.
- Project experience within the 16.7 Hz traction power sector including knowledge of regulatory processes
- Formulating the subproject charter and the project profile according to the project standard together with the project management
- Steering performance delivery according to the project charter
- Planning and steering human resources including budget planning for the subproject
- Ensuring the working capacity of subproject participants, e.g., by requesting access rights and documents for the subproject team
- Planning and steering for the respective subproject (Time, Scope, Budget) including the creation of necessary documents
- Coordinating with the department and Product Owners to plan the subproject scope and the corresponding implications
- Conducting milestone planning according to the agreed process model
- Effort estimation and support of subproject controlling as well as overall project controlling in forecasting and planning
- Reporting subproject status (according to status slide template) including progress (according to progress measurement)
- Analyzing, preparing, and addressing needs for action and decisions
- Escalating subproject issues to project management
- Creating and managing Change Requests (CR)
- Quality assessment of completed task packages from a project management perspective (Time, Scope, and Budget)
- Steering the implementation of cross-cutting specifications and requirements in the subproject, supported by cross-functional roles on the business and technical side.
- Identifying, steering, documenting, and communicating opportunities, risks, and dependencies within and across subprojects
- Supporting project management in creating the overall project plan and overall status reports
- Preparing and steering commissioning including required documents and protection requirements assessment
Scrum Master in an agile IT environment supporting a software development team in the fullstack area (7 people)
- Close collaboration with stakeholders & various teams to understand requirements, define priorities, ensure rollout, and increase user-friendliness
- Introducing the selected Scrum method, including the required events, meetings, artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown Charts), metrics, and conducting required training in an agile IT environment
- Preparing Scrum events such as Daily, Retrospectives, Review, Sprint Planning, Estimation, and Refinement (agile way of working)
- Facilitating retrospectives and removing impediments to drive the team and product forward
- Preparing action points and retros via Whiteboard and Figma
- Applying and improving agile methods such as Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, or Scrum of Scrums
- Tracking the "Definition of Done" and "Definition of Ready" for all work results of the development team
- Advising on information flow and communication improvements between Product Owner and project team
- Experience with automation, validation such as mandatory field checks, notification functions, creating filters, boards, and reports via JQL, and setting up Cycle Time
- Using Jira & Confluence
- Setting up progress measurement for project management to transparently map planned vs. actual team capacities and actual effort for user stories
- Measuring team progress: creating team KPIs: "Velocity", "Burn-Down Chart", "Throughput", "Costs", "Quality", "Scope"
- Evaluating agile metrics, process management, and process modeling methods (BPMN, EPC, UML)
- Communication and moderation know-how
- Proven methodological competence in conflict resolution discussions
Timo Bakenecker
Last position:
Freelancer (self-employed) at enorin GmbH
- Mendix low-code development / project management
- Managing external resources
- Customer and user management, roles
- Master data entry
- Quote preparation
- Material costing
- Workflows
- Basic CRM functions
- API interfaces (email, SMS, AI chatbot)
- PDF API (.NET development using Aspose.PDF)
- Stakeholder management (dev teams, enorin team, test client)
- Risk management (backend access & sizing, role concepts)
- Testing and staff training
- Creating epics and stories in Confluence
- Jira Scrum planning and management
Sercan Tatar
Last position:
Co-Founder & Lead Software Architect at Pflege-Pfad
- Focus: system architecture, cloud-native platforms, microservices, API design
- Product: Pflege-Pfad is a digital matchmaking platform that connects relatives of people in need of care directly with verified care services and caregivers - without an agency and without ongoing fees.
- Business analysis & process design:
- Analysis of the German care market and identification of the key pain points of both target groups.
- Modeling of the core business processes: registration, verification, care request, application, placement, and rating.
- Definition of the business model as a freemium/premium model with optional contact unlocking.
- Creation of user stories and requirements documentation for relatives, care services, and administrators.
- Design of trust and quality assurance mechanisms with document upload, admin review process, and rating system.
- Coordination with stakeholders and validation of product decisions with potential users.
- Technical implementation:
- Design and implementation of the entire platform architecture as a solo developer.
- Design and implementation of a REST API with Spring Boot and Kotlin, including JWT-based authentication.
- Development of the frontend as a single-page application with Angular 17.
- Implementation of the AWS infrastructure with EC2, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront, and IAM.
- Document upload with AWS S3 via presigned URLs for verification of care services.
- Email notifications via Resend API.
- AI-supported care service search via OpenAI API.
- Implementation of complete user flows such as registration, login, password reset, and placement process.
- Building an admin panel for user and care service management as well as analytics.
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions and containerized deployments with Docker.
- End-to-end tests with Playwright.
Technologies: Kotlin, Spring Boot 3, Spring Security, JWT, JPA/Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Angular 17, TypeScript, RxJS, AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, CloudFront CDN, RDS PostgreSQL, IAM), nginx, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Maven, Git, OpenAI API, Resend API, Docker, Scrum, i18n (DE/EN/TR), Kiro, feature-flag architecture.
Tamás Eppel
Last position:
Senior Software Developer / Tech Lead at NDA (defense / OSINT)
- Designing the audit logging framework
- Implementing APIs for developers to integrate in their codebase
- Implementing ingestion pipeline, database query layer and UI for browsing the audit events
- Improving stability and reliability of the backend system
Rüdiger Schulz
Last position:
Full-Stack Software Engineer / Consultant for Digitalization at ARTEVENT
Designed, built, and launched an internal event planning web application used by over 100 department leads for a large event, despite having no dedicated testing phase.
Ensured smooth, failure-free operation during first production use, leading to the tool being adopted for future events.
Automated catering calculations and related workflows, significantly reducing email communication and manual computation effort for meal planning.
Managed deployment and hosting on a Linux server using Coolify, including application setup and runtime operations.
Hired and guided a communication designer on UX while independently owning all technical decisions and implementation.
Kyu-Wang Lee
Last position:
Software Architect & Lead Software Engineer at Landesamt für Steuern Niedersachsen
The goal of BIENE is to provide a uniform program for tax collection for all states.
In tax collection, the aim is to collect the assessed taxes. This includes handling due dates, documenting incoming and outgoing payments, triggering reminders or refunds. Statute of limitations and payment reminders also play an important role. All payment transactions with banks and accounting are mapped in BIENE.
Setting up the architecture and coordinating the provisioning of development and test environments at the Hanover location
Installing and configuring environments on Linux servers (Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL)
Interface tasks: coordinating and aligning the integration of software products from other departments and their test data
Upgrading application server, JDK, Maven project structure
Environment coordination and build management
Implementing external interfaces
Implementing business requirements
Designing and implementing RESTful APIs and OpenAPI specifications
Designing and implementing microservice architecture
Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Deploying applications on OpenShift
Creating technical documentation and diagrams
Working with SQL databases (Oracle and PostgreSQL)
Setting up authentication and authorization for the application and users
Containerizing the application (automated deployment via CI/CD pipeline)
Olaf Taesch
Last position:
BI Architect in a Kanban Team at Gulp / Randstad for HHLA
- Creation of automated tests.
- Extension of the functionality of the enterprise BI data warehouse.
- Design and development in SQL and PL/SQL.
- Data modeling as well as performance measurement and tuning.
- Creation of and contribution to user stories and concepts.
- Technical environment: Windows, Linux.
- Database: Oracle 19c incl. DWH, CDB, PDB.
- Tools: Confluence, CVS, Eclipse, Git, GitLab, Jira, N4, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, utPLSQL.
Ola Van Dunen
Last position:
IT Lecturer
- IT training in theory and practice for IT specialists in application development and system integration
David Kaselow
Last position:
IT Business Analyst at REWE digital
LOIS is the central integration platform that enables the processes between all REWE applications across the entire supply chain. As an IT Business Engineer, I support the NEO program in renewing the logistics integration platform "LOIS" for REWE and Penny in Germany and Europe.
Stefan Wimmer
Last position:
Architect/Software Developer at Global Logistics Support GmbH
Task
- Further development of a new ERP system with Blazor
- Creation of e-invoices in the XRechnung and ZUGFeRD formats
- UI/UX design Client-server system
- Windows 11 Technology
- Microsoft .NET 9, Git, Azure DevOps, ASP.NET, MSSQL, Blazor Programming languages
- C#, MVVM Development tools
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2022 Database
- MSSQL Industry
- Other
Stephan Heilmann
Last position:
Development, Tester at Telecommunications
Set up an operational contract information system. This is mainly used as an order management system - for migrating existing contracts as well as for creating and providing new contract bundles.
Sales agents can use it to order new services, modify existing ones and migrate service types, as well as provide price information to the customer.
This supports the marketing of new services as well as the replacement of old services for existing customers.
In addition, existing data is imported, processed (ETL) and provided via services for further use in the portal front end.
Analysis of the business and technical use cases (workflows, involved processes/systems, communication paths, security requirements)
Further development / creation of the front-end components (React/JavaScript)
Design and implementation of the business logic
Creation of the functional and technical component documentation
Test execution / test automation (Cypress, test coverage)
Team size: 8 people
Technologies: React, JavaScript, Rest (JSon), Yaml, Markdown, MariaDB (SQL), Docker, Swagger, Cypress
Tools: Webstorm, ReactDeveloperTools, VisualStudioCode, Word, DBeaver, Git/GitLab
Work management: GitLab
Platform: Linux
Build management: GitLab
Rainer Langbehn
Last position:
Senior IT Consultant, Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Developer, Senior DevOps Engineer at Techniker Krankenkasse
Automation of the database major / minor releases for the TKeasy project
Concept for database major / minor release automation
As-is analysis
Evaluation of Redgate Flyway functionality
Concept creation
Products: Redgate Flyway, GitHub, Quest, Erwin Data Modeller, Oracle, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence
Skills: Docker, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Redgate Flyway, Major Releases, Minor Releases
Thorsten Lenzen
Last position:
Senior Security Analyst
- Analysis and remediation of security vulnerabilities in a risk assessment system for energy trading
- System analysis
- Threat modeling
- Decision-making on vulnerability mitigation strategies
- Implementation of vulnerability detection mechanisms
- Security scans
- DevSecOps practices
- Technical environment: Visual Studio Code, JetBrains Suite, MS Threat Modeling Tool, DevSecOps, Git, AWS, DynamoDB, SQL Server, Endur, Snowflake, Orca
- Languages: C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform, SQL
Oliver Ohly
Last position:
Embedded Software Architect at Automotive supplier
Stellar SR6 G7 line, 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-R52+ MCU.
- MISRA-C, C99, Greenhills ARM compiler
- Dassault AUTOSAR Builder
- EB Tresos
- Sparx Enterprise Architect 16.1
- VS Code
- Python xml, lxml, NumPy and Pandas
ISO 26262, ISO 21434, hypervisor, key management, HSM. Tooling & automation. LieberLieber LemonTree + Sparx EA. Jira, Confluence, SharePoint. Git/Github. DevOps through Jenkins & Conan.
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Statistics of experts using XSLT
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
3.3 years
Positions per freelancer
17
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
88%
Master's degree or higher
55%
Doctorate
11%
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.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using XSLT
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
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
XSLT in practice
XSLT is the stylesheet language used to transform XML into other formats. Companies use it for publishing, document pipelines, data integration, and system-to-system exchanges. It is common in environments where structured XML still drives core business processes.
Typical deliverables
- XML to HTML transformations for portals and reports
- XML to PDF workflows with XSL-FO
- Data reshaping for partner feeds and message exchange
- Template-driven output for invoices, catalogs, and forms
The toolchain
Strong specialists work with XPath, XML Schema, and processors such as Saxon or legacy Java-based engines. They know the differences between XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, and XSLT 3.0, and they understand namespaces, templates, modes, and grouping. That makes their work easier to maintain and safer to change.
When companies need help
XSLT freelancers are often brought in when old transformations need repair, when XML output must be integrated into new systems, or when document quality is inconsistent. In Germany, this is common in publishing, insurance, logistics, and other process-heavy environments that still rely on XML.
What strong experts bring
A good XSLT professional writes clear templates, keeps logic readable, and avoids fragile hacks. They test edge cases, handle large documents carefully, and document rules so future changes do not break output. They also know when to keep logic in XSLT and when another layer is better.
Working style
Remote work fits most XSLT tasks well, because stylesheets, sample XML, and expected output can be reviewed asynchronously. On-site collaboration helps when source systems are complex or stakeholders need to validate document layouts quickly. Look for specialists who communicate clearly and can explain transformation logic in plain language.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about XSLT — answered in short.
XSLT is used to transform XML into HTML, PDF, plain text, or another XML structure. Companies rely on it for publishing workflows, document generation, partner feeds, and message mapping. It is especially useful when the source data already comes in structured XML.
XSLT is best when the main task is transforming XML rather than querying it. Compared with XQuery, it is usually stronger for template-based output and document-oriented processing. Compared with application code, it can be easier to keep transformation rules close to the source structure.
A strong XSLT specialist usually knows XML, XPath, namespaces, and XML Schema. For document output, XSL-FO and PDF toolchains are common. In Java-based stacks, experience with processors such as Saxon is often important.
That depends on the processor and the codebase you already have. XSLT 1.0 is still common in older systems, while 2.0 and 3.0 add more powerful grouping, functions, and data handling. A good freelancer should be able to work in the version your environment actually uses.
Bring in XSLT help when transformations are hard to maintain, when XML output is failing, or when new business rules must be added without breaking existing documents. Freelance specialists are also useful for short migration work, cleanup of legacy stylesheets, and one-off integration projects. They can step in without a long ramp-up.
For many XSLT tasks, yes. Remote collaboration works well when the freelancer has sample XML, expected output, and access to the processor or test environment. On-site sessions can help if stakeholders need to review complex document layouts or source-system behavior in detail.
Look for clear templates, predictable naming, and transformations that are easy to test. A strong XSLT professional explains why a stylesheet is structured a certain way and can show how it handles namespaces, edge cases, and large files. Quality is usually visible in maintainability, not just in whether the output works once.
XSLT transforms XML into another structure, while XSL-FO defines formatted output for page layout. In many document workflows, XSLT prepares the content and XSL-FO is used for the final PDF rendering step. Freelancers who know both can design cleaner end-to-end publishing pipelines.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used XSLT in their recent projects is 95 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 764 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used XSLT in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 55% hold at least a Master's degree, and 11% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used XSLT in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used XSLT in their recent projects are German (100%), English (96%), and French (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used XSLT in their recent projects are Information Technology (99%), Banking and Finance (59%), and Manufacturing (47%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used XSLT in their recent projects are Information Technology (99%), Product Development (95%), and Quality Assurance (70%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used XSLT
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