Julien Simon
AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital; former Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face and Arcee AI
Julien Simon is AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital, where Simon works on cloud and AI initiatives across the firm's portfolios; Simon's GitHub profile also describes Simon as a technical author and open-source developer. Simon was previously Chief Evangelist at Arcee AI and, before that, Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face, as credited on AWS Partner Network posts from 2025 and 2024; earlier, Simon was an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Evangelist for EMEA at AWS and wrote for the AWS News Blog. Simon's site lists Simon as the author of Learn Amazon SageMaker (Packt, first edition August 2020), and Simon's GitHub hosts an Amazon SageMaker container that serves small language models on CPUs with llama.cpp.1234567
Work
sagemaker-inference-container-cpu (external site: github.com)
Simon's repository, published under a modified MIT license that adds conditions on who may use it, packages a llama.cpp build as an Amazon SageMaker container for small-language-model inference on Graviton (Arm64) and Intel Xeon (AMD64) instances; it can deploy models from the Hugging Face Hub with automatic GGUF conversion and quantization, and also runs on Docker or Kubernetes outside SageMaker.73
Learn Amazon SageMaker (book)
Single author of Learn Amazon SageMaker (Packt Publishing); Simon's books page lists a first edition in August 2020 and a second edition in September 2021.2
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Chief Evangelist, Arcee AI41
- Chief Evangelist, Hugging Face51
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Evangelist for EMEA, Amazon Web Services (Amazon)61
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