Julien Simon, Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face, works closely with Fortune 1000 companies and several others to help them initiate, implement and promote innovative machine learning solutions. An Operating Partner at Samaipata, he works with digital businesses in pre-investment and post-investment stages.
Having spent a significant period of time as the Global Technical Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, he was valuable to developers and organisations in bringing a variety of projects to life on AWS. He also authored “Learn Amazon SageMaker” which helps people build, train and deploy machine learning models at scale without managing any infrastructure.
Other significant roles he has held in his career include being the Chief Technology Officer at Viadeo, Aldebaran Robotics, Pixmania, and BlueSky Positioning. He has also served as the Vice President of Engineering at Digiplug and Criteo. He has also been Director of R&D Mobile Communications at Oberthur Card Systems and Co-Founder and Technical Manager at Netattitude.
Particularly interested in solving problems related to infrastructure, scalability, data, machine learning, algorithms, science and other complex problems, Julien has a yen for using innovative methods to solve real-world problems. He is now available to speak at a wide range of events, sharing his expertise on technology and business.
How to hire Julien Simon
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- 2023 – Operating Partner, Samaipata
- 2021 – Chief Evangelist, Hugging Face
- 2015 – Global Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
- 2014 – Chief Technology Officer, Viadeo
- 2014 – Chief Technology Officer, Aldebaran Robotics
- 2010 – Vice President of Engineering, Criteo
- 2009 – Chief Technology Officer, Pixmania
- 2007 – Vice President of Engineering, Digiplug
- 2006 – Chief Technical Officer, BlueSky Positioning
- 2002 – Director of R&D Mobile Communications, Oberthur Card Systems
- 2000 – Co-Founder & Technical Manager, Netattitude
- 1998 – Embedded Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems
- 1997 – Embedded Software Engineer, Bosch Telecom
- 1994 – Research Engineer, ISEP
