Julien Simon - AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital, expert in Portfolio AI Acceleration and Small Language Models

Julien Simon

AI Operating Partner @ Fortino Capital

Accelerating cloud and AI initiatives across Private Equity and Venture Capital portfolios. From product to engineering to operations to GTMβ€”helping portfolio companies scale and transform through strategic AI implementation.

Technical Articles & Blog Posts

Technical articles and tutorials covering AI, machine learning, and emerging technologies from my various roles and experiences.

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Industry Perspectives

Company-agnostic thoughts and lessons drawn from my professional journey.

πŸ“… 2021 - Present
πŸ“„ 11 articles
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Arcee AI

Technical articles from my time as Vice President & Chief Evangelist at Arcee AI (2024 - November 2025).

πŸ“… 2024 - November 2025
πŸ“„ 16 articles
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Hugging Face

Technical articles published on the Hugging Face blog during my time as Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face.

πŸ“… 2021 - 2024
πŸ“„ 25 articles
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AWS Blog Posts

Technical articles published on AWS blogs during my time at AWS.

πŸ“… 2015 - 2021
πŸ“„ 68 articles
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AWS Medium Posts

Technical articles published on my Medium blog during my time at AWS.

πŸ“… 2015 - 2021
πŸ“„ 182 articles
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Legacy Blog Posts

An archive of my pre-AWS technical articles from 2008 to 2015.

πŸ“… 2008 - 2016
πŸ“„ 90 posts
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Academic Publications & Early Career Research

Research papers and academic publications from my early career in the 1990s, focusing on distributed systems, operating systems, and computer science. This foundational work shaped my approach to technology and problem-solving throughout my career.

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Distributed Operating Systems Research (1994-1996)

Contributed to a research project on distributed operating systems based on the Mach microkernel at the MASI Laboratory, Paris 6 University (Sorbonne).

πŸ“… 1994-1996
πŸ›οΈ Paris 6 University

Research Focus:

  • Distributed system architecture based on Mach microkernel
  • Inter-process communication mechanisms
  • Resource management in distributed environments
  • Fault tolerance and system reliability
  • Performance optimization for distributed computing

Published Research Papers:

"Distributed Communication Services in the Masix System"
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
1995
"Secure Communication Services in the Masix Distributed Operating System"
IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Orlando, Florida, USA
1995
"Building a distributed generic layer for multiple personality support on top of the Mach microkernel"
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), Athens, Georgia, USA
1996
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