Arthur Liebhardt
Product Builder & Full Stack Developer
I lead AI product and technical enablement initiatives across both startup and enterprise contexts, from building SaaS products to delivering executive-facing AI experiences at SAP’s flagship events. With over a decade of end-to-end development experience and a founder’s mindset, I combine technical depth with cross-functional leadership to turn complex AI capabilities into outcomes that resonate with developers, decision-makers, and executive audiences alike.
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Technical Demo & Enablement Lead @ AI Advocacy
03/2025 – PresentSAP, SAP Business AI, Marketing
Hybrid
- Lead SAP’s Global Agent-Assisted Coding Initiative, running enablement sessions and community talks worldwide, building a decentralised network of regional catalysts to scale AI-powered development workflows across the organisation
- Managed technical demo development and strategic narrative for the SAP TechEd 2025 Keynote, collaborating directly with the CTO to translate complex AI capabilities into executive-ready storylines
- Architected and shipped SAP’s first external AI playground (rpt.cloud.sap) leading a team of five, debuting the SAP-RPT-1 Tabular AI model, delivering a fully compliant product release in 4 weeks, a process that typically takes 6+ months
- Operated end-to-end across product management, design, agile execution, code review, and hands-on engineering to de-risk delivery and ensure quality under highly compressed timelines
- Designed and delivered high-impact demos for senior leadership and C-level audiences, showcased at flagship events including SAPPHIRE and SAP TechEd
Tech Lead @ AI Frontrunners
01/2024 – 02/2025SAP, SAP Business AI, Innovation
Hybrid
- Identified and incubated innovative AI use cases to improve business processes and shape next-generation AI solutions within SAP’s ecosystem
- Built an MVP that validated technical feasibility and user value, creating the foundation for later productization into a full-scale offering
- Collaborated cross-functionally with Lines of Business to integrate AI capabilities into business-relevant solutions
- Contributed to the data pipeline for SAP’s Document Grounding Service, supporting automated document indexing and retrieval workflows in SAP AI Core
- Led research and prototyping for generative UI experiences with a focus on Joule integration, exploring new interaction patterns that improved usability and product vision alignment
Tech Lead @ CPEX
12/2020 – 12/2023SAP, SAP Cross Product Engineering & Experience (CPEX)
Hybrid
- Conceptualized and built innovative prototypes showcased at internal SAP events, sparking interest and aligning with the company’s strategic vision
- Led the assessment of both emerging and existing technologies to identify synergies, boost innovation, and sustain a competitive advantage in the AI sector
- Developed custom prototypes for internal Lines of Business, enhancing stakeholder alignment and creating impactful customer-facing success stories
- Deepened strategic collaboration with Microsoft, driving joint innovation efforts and enhancing synergistic business opportunities
Co-Founder
09/2019 – 11/2023si:cross GmbH
Remote
- Co-founded a B2B SaaS platform for AI-powered podcast planning and hosting, owning the product lifecycle from idea and design through development and delivery
- Recruited, onboarded, and led a remote engineering team, establishing an async-first culture that improved autonomy, communication, and execution speed across time zones
- Built a scalable SaaS platform on AWS serverless architecture, optimised for resilience, cost efficiency, and rapid iteration
- Combined product leadership, technical architecture, and hands-on development to move from concept to production in a lean startup environment
Development Architect
09/2019 – 11/2020SAP, Innovative Business Solutions (IBSO)
St. Ingbert, Saarland
- Designed and delivered cloud-native projects and proofs of concept on AWS, validating emerging technologies for business-relevant use cases
- Led solution shaping for RFPs and MVPs, while promoting SaaS best practices and customer-centric delivery approaches across the organization
Developer
10/2016 – 08/2019SAP, Innovative Business Solutions (IBSO)
St. Ingbert, Saarland
- Developed multiple cloud solutions and proof-of-concept applications for internal and external stakeholders in fast-moving innovation environments
- Built CI/CD pipelines and contributed to SAP’s early public cloud evaluation efforts, strengthening engineering speed and platform direction
Projects
webtracker.ai
08/2025- A competitive intelligence SaaS platform designed to provide small and medium-sized businesses with actionable market insights
- Developed a full-stack application featuring automated website monitoring, which tracks competitor changes, including product launches, pricing adjustments, and content updates
ai-media-studio.com
04/2025- Built a SaaS platform for AI-generated images and videos, leveraging GPT’s image API to streamline content creation for marketing and social media use cases
- Integrated 50+ creative styles with intuitive editing tools, enabling high-quality output without design expertise
- Focused on team collaboration and usability, ensuring the platform meets the needs of both individual creators and business teams at scale
ecomdesignlab.ai
02/2025- Developed an AI-powered virtual try-on platform for fashion brands, enabling personalized model shots without photoshoots
- Designed and implemented a custom AI image generation pipeline, combining garment analysis, model personalization, pose alignment, and inpainting to deliver high-fidelity virtual try-on visuals at scale
podpally.com
12/2024- Built an AI-powered SaaS tool that automates podcast guest research, transforming LinkedIn data into actionable insights and interview questions
- Enabling podcasters to save hours of prep time by generating unique topics and up-to-date guest context, improving episode quality and engagement
hiretool.io
10/2024- Developed an async hiring platform to streamline candidate screening and early-stage recruitment workflows
- Implemented custom application forms and video response features, enabling faster identification of top talent
- Centralized applicant tracking and onboarding processes, improving team productivity and reducing time-to-hire
audio-docs.com
06/2024- Designed and built a multilingual SaaS platform that uses AI to transcribe, summarize, and organize audio content
- Convert spoken input into actionable documents, reducing manual effort and enhancing accessibility
meerge
05/2023 – 11/2023- Built a legal-tech prototype using React Flow to visualize complex company structures and ownership hierarchies
- Developed a custom algorithm to identify "beneficial owners" based on legal requirements for German compliance
- Collaborated with a lawyer and designer in a lean startup experiment to validate market demand — ultimately sunset due to lack of traction
Languages
Education
Computer Science, Master of Science
10/2014 – 09/2016HTW saar
Saarbrücken, Saarland
Awards
AHW award for an outstanding master thesis
Arbeitskreis Hochschule und Wirtschaft AHW e. V.