# Julien Chaumond: founder, Hugging Face

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French engineer; co-founder and CTO of Hugging Face (founded 2016). Previously worked as an engineer within France's Ministry of Economy and at Moodstocks; holds a master's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford. Led the rapid PyTorch port of Google's BERT in 2018 that catalyzed Hugging Face's pivot to open-source ML infrastructure.

- **Nationality:** French
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (2)

- [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md) Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md) Co-Founder & CTO (secondary-verified)

## Foundings (1)

- [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md) (cofounder)

See all founders: [/founders](https://registry.deploy.report/founders.md)

## Co-founders (2)

- [Clement Delangue](https://registry.deploy.report/people/clement-delangue.md) co-founded [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md)
- [Thomas Wolf](https://registry.deploy.report/people/thomas-wolf.md) co-founded [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md)

## Sources (2)

1. **Wikipedia** · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face
2. **DagsHub** · https://dagshub.com/blog/huggingface-cto-julien-chaumond-on-large-models-in-production/


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