paul burkhardt

I like building things that work. Currently working on Tent with my cofounder Mustafa. Based in Munich. I tinker a lot, ship fast, and care about the details.

I'm building Tent with my cofounder Mustafa, an AI agent platform for non-technical teams. We met in CS class in 2020, have been building together since, and keep winning hackathons along the way. Before this, I dropped out of my M.Sc. at TUM and UC Berkeley (3/4 done, top 2%) to go full-time. I've been tinkering with AI agents since 2023 and trying every new model, framework, and paradigm as soon as I can get my hands on it.
2025 ~

Tent

Cofounder & CEO

AI agent platform for non-technical teams. Automating workflows across departments so companies can scale without scaling headcount.

Jun ~ Aug 2024

Knowunity · Series B

AI Backend Engineering Intern

Owned end-to-end product engineering for AI features in an edtech app with 2M weekly active users. Built RAG pipeline with OpenCV, custom models, and Elasticsearch.

Apr ~ May 2024

BCG Platinion

Visiting Associate

Led interim product management for a scaling IoT unicorn. User research, requirements engineering, C-level dashboards.

Aug ~ Dec 2023

Adago

Working Student, Cloud & Software Engineering

Built scalable AWS infrastructure (Batch, S3, Lambda, Aurora) for an ML-driven digital twin serving a DAX40 client. Data pipelines from Palantir Foundry to AWS.

Feb ~ Apr 2023

Langfuse · YC W23, acquired by ClickHouse

Founding Intern (Employee #1)

First employee at the LLM observability startup. Shipped full-stack features (Next.js, React, tRPC) during the product-market fit phase. Now 20K+ GitHub stars, 26M+ monthly SDK installs.

2024 ~ 2025

TU Munich & UC Berkeley

M.Sc. Computer Science · GPA 1.2 / 4.0
ML, Computer Vision, Systems Design, Foundation Models
Left after 3/4 to build Tent full-time · Top 2%
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes · Rohde Stiftung · Adam Haker Stiftung
2024 ~

CDTM

Honors Degree in Technology Management · GPA 1.1
~4% acceptance rate
2020 ~ 2024

University of Mannheim & NUS

B.Sc. Information Systems · GPA 1.2 (Top 2%)
Deutschlandstipendium Scholar

Opus

AI-powered workforce platform automating HR, customer support, and analytics via Slack and email integration. Built with Mustafa in 48 hours.

AI Agentsn8nReactSupabaseVAPI

PathPilot

3D SLAM navigation system for visually impaired people. Uses Mast3r for dense 3D reconstruction and real-time path planning to help navigate indoor spaces.

PythonPyTorchComputer Vision3D Reconstruction

Auto-Toon

AI app that generates personalized comic books where kids are the main character in their own story. Built it for my nephew, now his friends love it too.

Next.jsAI Image GenerationVercel

Recipe Vault

Digitize and organize family recipes with OCR and structured data extraction. Built to preserve my grandmother's handwritten recipes.

ReactOCRVercel

Computational Photography

Collection of computer vision projects from UC Berkeley CS180: image stitching, face morphing, neural radiance fields, and more.

PythonNumPyComputer Vision

Entity Matching with LLMs

Bachelor thesis exploring how large language models can be applied to entity matching problems in data integration.

PythonLLMsNLP

Rarely

Built as part of CDTM's Managing Product Development course, a 12-week interdisciplinary project sprint where student teams design, prototype, and ship real products.

TypeScript
Winner, CDTM Hacks
Opus: AI workforce platform (with Mustafa)
Winner, Q-Summit Hackathon
AWS challenge, beat 50+ teams (with Mustafa)
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Germany's most prestigious merit-based scholarship (top 0.5%)
Deutschlandstipendium, Rohde Stiftung, Adam Haker Stiftung
National and university merit-based scholarships