Summary
Julien Simon is an AI and cloud veteran with 11 years of focused experience accelerating enterprise AI adoption across Private Equity portfolios and high-growth AI labs, now serving as Operating Partner & Head of the AI Studio at Fortino Capital. He blends C-suite strategic leadership with hands-on engineering—benchmarking and deploying open-weight LLMs across CPU, GPU and specialized accelerators—backed by senior roles at Arcee.ai, Hugging Face and AWS. Julien has a deep track record delivering production-grade AI and infrastructure (from Pepper robots to multi-petabyte big data platforms) and routinely performs technical due diligence for investments. Known as a practitioner-evangelist, he builds strategic partnerships with hyperscalers and hardware vendors, creates high-impact technical content and maintains a large public following as a communicator. A former Amazon level-8 technical evangelist and Arm Ambassador, he brings rare cross-domain credibility that spans embedded systems, large-scale web platforms, and cutting-edge generative AI.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master (D.E.A.), Computer Systems, Master (D.E.A.), Computer Systems at Pierre and Marie Curie University
Engineer, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Engineer, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Isep - École d'ingénieurs du numérique