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Aren Ter-Balyan

@arent-b

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I am an AI and legal engineer optimizing legal workflows with transformative automation.

Armenia

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What I'm looking for

I seek a leadership role combining AI and law where I can build product-grade legal automation, lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers and lawyers, and deliver measurable efficiency gains in privacy, contracts, and compliance.

I am an AI and legal engineer with a track record of building production systems that dramatically reduce legal work: I developed AI agents that cut case preparation time by 80% and a summarization tool that replaced 20 legal analysts. Across startups and corporations I launched chatbots, negotiation apps, metadata extraction, contract harmonization, and contract-analysis tools that shaved weeks or months off manual processes and improved efficiency by double- and triple-fold.

I hold an LLM in Information Privacy and Cybersecurity Law and a PhD in Globalization of Law, and I combine deep legal domain expertise with hands-on ML engineering using Python, RAG, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases and major LLMs. I look to lead product-focused teams that scale legal automation, strengthen privacy/compliance workflows, and mentor cross-functional engineers and lawyers to deliver measurable impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Chief Technology Officer

Current

CaseLens LLC

Sep 2023 - Present (2 years)

Built AI agents that automated legal case preparation time by 80% and developed a summarization tool that replaced 20 legal analysts. Led technical strategy and product delivery for legal AI tooling.

Python Prompt Engineering LlamaIndex AWS Large Language Models Product Development Team Leadership

AI Engineer / Legal Engineer

KMStandards LLC

Jun 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 6 months)

Introduced an AI chatbot reducing clause selection time by 70% and engineered an AI negotiation app cutting negotiation time by 80%. Built contract harmonization and analysis tools that saved months of work and tripled legal throughput.

Python RAG LlamaIndex Prompt Engineering APIs Deployment

AI Engineer / Legal Engineer

Akorda Corporation

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 months)

Built a legal metadata extraction application that improved efficiency by 90% and collaborated on contract analysis logic to boost accuracy by 30%. Replaced manual workflows with automated NLP pipelines.

Python SpaCy NLP Metadata LLMs)Prompt Engineering Data Pipelines APIs

Senior Associate / Legal Engineer

Elawphant LLC

Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years)

Developed a due diligence application that shortened research time by 90% and advised on corporate, financial, and contract law across 15+ high-profile cases. Improved legal workflows through automation.

Due Diligence Legal Research Python Automation)Contract Drafting Compliance

General Director

Hovard Asset Management CJSC

Aug 2018 - Nov 2020 (2 years 3 months)

Managed $5M in investment funds achieving 15% annual ROI, authored 20+ investment documents, and streamlined AML/CTF compliance to cut process time by 50%. Improved decision-making efficiency by 70%.

Financial Analysis Risk Management Reporting Leadership

Advisor to General Director

High Voltage Electric Networks

Nov 2017 - Jun 2018 (7 months)

Transformed legal frameworks to increase operational efficiency by 20% and executed staff resource optimization initiatives that improved utilization by 30%. Delivered policy and process improvements.

Compliance Process Optimization Corporate Law Stakeholder Management Policy Development Restructuring

Associate

Andersen in Armenia

Jun 2015 - Nov 2017 (2 years 5 months)

Provided corporate legal support for 20+ high-profile transactions and conducted in-depth legal research for 50+ cases supporting litigation and arbitration. Supported transactional and regulatory workstreams.

Corporate Law Legal Research Litigation Due Diligence Contract Drafting