Arthur Liebhardt

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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Skills

Leadership & Strategy
Cross-Functional Leadership · Executive Communication · Stakeholder Alignment · Product Strategy · Technical Program Leadership · Developer Enablement
AI & Product
AI Agents · Conversational AI · Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) · AI Prototyping & Productization · Generative UI · AI-Assisted Workflows
Engineering
Software Architecture · Full-Stack Development · Cloud/Serverless · CI/CD · API Design · End-to-End Product Delivery

Experience

Technical Demo & Enablement Lead @ AI Advocacy

03/2025 – Present

SAP, 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 – 02/2025

SAP, 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 – 12/2023

SAP, 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 – 11/2023

si: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 – 11/2020

SAP, 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 – 08/2019

SAP, 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

German
English
Russian

Education

Computer Science, Master of Science

10/2014 – 09/2016

HTW saar

Saarbrücken, Saarland

Awards

AHW award for an outstanding master thesis

Arbeitskreis Hochschule und Wirtschaft AHW e. V.

01/2017

Interests

FamilyOtto (dog)Brazillian Jiu-JitsuTravellingCookingGaming