Xuan-Son Nguyen
Software engineer at Hugging Face and core maintainer of llama.cpp
- Software engineer, Hugging Face12
Xuan-Son Nguyen is a software engineer at Hugging Face and a core maintainer of llama.cpp, the C/C++ runtime for running language models on local hardware. The project's CODEOWNERS file lists Nguyen as the owner of its multimodal library and among the owners of llama-server, and Nguyen's site credits this work with adding vision and audio support to llama.cpp. The site also lists the Hugging Face Hub integration that lets Ollama run GGUF models hosted on the Hub, and Nguyen publishes wllama, a WebAssembly binding for running llama.cpp in the browser.1356
Work
llama.cpp
Core maintainer, according to Nguyen's site, which also credits Nguyen with adding vision and audio support. CODEOWNERS names Nguyen for the multimodal library (llama-mtmd), llama-server, shared common code, CI, and Dockerfiles. Nguyen is also a byline author of Hugging Face's 2026 announcement that the ggml and llama.cpp team was joining the company.134
Ollama integration on the Hugging Face Hub (external site: huggingface.co)
Listed among Nguyen's work. The Hub documentation describes running any public GGUF checkpoint on the Hub with a single ollama run command, with a choice of quantization type.15
wllama (external site: github.com)
Published under Nguyen's GitHub account as an MIT-licensed WebAssembly binding for llama.cpp; it runs language model inference directly in a web browser.6
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