Summary
Pierre Arnoux is a seasoned AI leader and founder with 11 years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems and legal AI agents. As CEO and Co-Founder of Dioptra—now part of Icertis where he serves as Vice President of Agentic AI—he has delivered a contract-review agent that achieves lawyer-level accuracy and sub-1% unauthorized action rates in real-world due diligence and compliance use cases. His background spans applied research and engineering roles at IBM Watson and Ocrolus, plus teaching MLOps at Columbia, giving him a rare blend of research rigor, production ML chops, and pedagogy. He trained in electrical and mechanical engineering at Columbia and Centrale Lille and refined startup product strategy at Y Combinator. Pierre is quietly focused on automating high-volume, high-risk legal workflows so lawyers can reclaim high-value work, and he brings a track record of shipping reliable, auditable AI in regulated contexts. Based in New York, he combines founder-level vision with hands-on model and systems expertise.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical engineering at Columbia University
Master of Science Degree Mechanical Engineering Electromagnetic conversion and Electric Vehicles, Master of Science Degree Mechanical Engineering Electromagnetic conversion and Electric Vehicles at Centrale Lille
Spanish, English, French