Art Richards
Chief AI Officer at Mercor
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolArt Richards is a Chief AI Officer and seasoned product-engineering leader with 12+ years of experience turning ambiguous AI and IoT problems into delivery-focused products for enterprise customers. He designs and ships agentic LLM systems, RAG workflows, model testing and red-teaming processes, and observability for agentic pipelines while aligning roadmaps to compliance regimes like the EU AI Act and ISO 42001. Comfortable in startup and B2B SaaS contexts, he blends hands-on engineering (Docker, CI/CD, pydantic-ai, Langfuse) with customer-facing operations to shorten time-to-value and inform product scope. His background ranges from edge IoT and logistics to blockchain and fintech, and he’s known for importing disciplined TDD/SpecDD and agentic best practices across distributed teams. Based in Berlin, he pairs executive strategy with regular engagement in presales and onboarding—often translating enterprise pain points directly into testable AI workflows.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMontwood High School
English, python, sql, php, cobol, c#, bash, javascript
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
carrousel6
twitter-bootstrap6
javascript6
jquery6
react2
google-maps2
declarative1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ArtRichards/magento-bitcoin-currency
Nov 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
ArtRichards/joomla-cms
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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