Founder Profile
Julien Chaumond
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Julien Chaumond?
Julien Chaumond is a founder of Hugging Face, Inc., which was founded in 2016 with Clément Delangue and Thomas Wolf.
- Company founded
- Hugging Face, Inc.
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Clément Delangue and Thomas Wolf
Background
Engineer educated at École Polytechnique and Stanford University with a background in software engineering and startups before co-founding Hugging Face.
Founding Story
Julien Chaumond is co-founder and CTO of Hugging Face. He leads the engineering behind the Hub, the platform that stores and serves millions of model repositories and billions of downloads, and its developer-facing products. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Nvidia Confirms $12.9B Hugging Face Deal (Yahoo Finance) (Hugging Face, Inc.)
- Forbes: Nvidia Moves To Buy Hugging Face (Hugging Face, Inc.)