Lesly Franco
Chief Technology Officer at Aracor AI
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolLesly Franco is a seasoned AI and product development leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Aracor AI after architecting its legal AI product from scratch. He specializes in generative AI, multimodal systems, autonomous agents, and full-stack AI deployments that have delivered measurable gains—reducing legal workflow time by 40% and improving accuracy by 20%. Lesly has deep hands-on expertise in LLMOps, Hybrid RAG, fine-tuned redaction models, private OCR deployments, and AI observability (e.g., LangFuse) to ensure robust, scalable production pipelines. Prior roles at AstraZeneca saw him deliver state-of-the-art NLP for patient safety signal detection and machine reading chatbots, reflecting his ability to transfer research into regulated enterprise settings. As a first hire turned CTO, he built and led cross-functional teams, introduced agile and DevOps practices, and launched platforms used by multiple clients. Based in Chennai, he balances technical rigor with product impact and a demonstrated knack for turning complex regulatory and legal challenges into practical AI products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Deep Learning, Nanodegree Deep Learning at UdacityB.TECH Information Technology, B.TECH Information Technology at Velammal Engineering College
English, Tamil
Github Skills (137)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
synthetic10
flax10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
ml10
numpy10
neural-network10
transformer10
nlp10
tensor10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
leslyarun/InterviewBot
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
leslyarun/2048
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
detailsgoogle-play
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.