Arthur Liebhardt

Arthur Liebhardt

AI / Cloud Architect • Product Builder

I work at the intersection of applied AI, technical enablement, and product development across both enterprise and startup environments. At SAP, I help turn emerging AI capabilities into executive-facing demos, narratives, and solution concepts for flagship events such as SAPPHIRE and TechEd. With over 10 years of end-to-end development experience and a strong founder mindset, I combine hands-on technical depth with cross-functional leadership to translate complex AI capabilities into outcomes that resonate with developers, business stakeholders, and executive audiences alike.

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Skills

Architecture & platform
Software architecture · Cloud/serverless · API & integration design · CI/CD · End-to-end delivery
AI & applied systems
AI agents · Conversational AI · RAG · Prototyping & productization · Generative UI · AI-assisted workflows
Stakeholder & program leadership
Cross-functional leadership · Executive communication · Stakeholder alignment · Product strategy · Technical program leadership · Developer enablement

Experience

Technical Demo & Enablement Lead, AI Advocacy

03/2025 – Present

SAP Business AI

Hybrid

  • Lead SAP’s Global Agent-Assisted Coding Initiative, designing and delivering enablement sessions and community programs that help teams adopt AI-assisted development workflows at scale across regions.
  • Partner with SAP’s CTO and senior stakeholders to shape the technical narrative and demo strategy for flagship events, translating emerging AI capabilities into executive-ready storylines and tangible business value.
  • Led a cross-functional team of five to architect and launch SAP’s first external AI playground, rpt.cloud.sap, showcasing the SAP RPT-1 Tabular AI model and delivering a compliant product release in four weeks.
  • Worked across product, design, engineering, and governance to de-risk delivery, align stakeholders, and maintain quality under highly compressed timelines.
  • Designed and delivered high-impact AI demos for senior leadership and C-level audiences at SAPPHIRE and SAP TechEd, making complex capabilities understandable and relevant for executive stakeholders.

Tech Lead, Applied AI Incubation

01/2024 – 02/2025

SAP Business AI

Hybrid

  • Identified and piloted AI use cases with clear business relevance, helping shape next-generation AI solutions across SAP’s ecosystem.
  • Built and validated MVPs that demonstrated both technical feasibility and user value, creating the foundation for later productization.
  • Collaborated with Lines of Business and technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into applied AI solution concepts.
  • Contributed to SAP’s Document Grounding Service by helping build the pipeline API for automated document indexing and retrieval workflows in SAP AI Core.
  • Led research and prototyping for generative UI experiences in the Joule context, exploring new interaction patterns and informing product direction.

Tech Lead, Cross-Product Innovation

12/2020 – 12/2023

SAP CPEX

Hybrid

  • Conceptualized and built AI and technology prototypes for internal stakeholders and executive showcases, aligning innovation work with SAP’s strategic priorities.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies and identified opportunities to apply them to business-relevant use cases across SAP.
  • Developed prototypes for internal Lines of Business that improved stakeholder alignment and helped shape customer-facing narratives.
  • Supported strategic collaboration with Microsoft through joint innovation initiatives and technical exploration.

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 concept and design through development, launch, and iteration.
  • Recruited and led a remote engineering team of four, establishing an async-first operating model that improved autonomy, communication, and delivery across time zones.
  • Built a scalable SaaS platform on AWS serverless infrastructure, optimised for resilience, cost efficiency, and rapid iteration.
  • Combined product leadership, architecture, and hands-on development to take the platform from idea to production in a lean startup environment.

Development Architect

09/2019 – 11/2020

SAP Innovative Business Solutions

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, translating requirements into technical approaches and promoting SaaS best practices and customer-centric delivery.

Developer

10/2016 – 08/2019

SAP Innovative Business Solutions

St. Ingbert, Saarland

  • Developed 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, improving engineering velocity and helping shape platform direction.

Projects

  • Shipped today-md, a native, local-first macOS task manager for lightweight planning across Today, This Week, and Backlog, combining kanban-style organization with subtasks, Markdown notes, and fast full-text search
  • Added JSON and Markdown export so tasks stay easy to manage in the app and remain portable outside it, with no cloud or account required
  • 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