Principal Systems Engineer / Infrastructure Architect · Open Source Advocate · 🇫🇷 → 🇯🇵
benoit.jp.net
Name: Benoit
Role: Principal Systems Engineer (Platform Engineering Team Lead)
Stack: Linux · Kubernetes · Chef · Terraform · Open Source
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Experience: 14 years in production environments
Status: Open to Infrastructure Architect roles · Working from Japan · see CV
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CV
14 years of platform engineering, from French managed hosting to Japanese big tech.
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Curated Tools
Hand-picked CLI and TUI tools for the terminal-first lifestyle.
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Hiking
Hiking logs generated from Garmin .fit files: routes, elevation, heart rate.
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How-To Guides
Technical guides for sysadmins: GPG, ZFS, Incus, Void Linux, and more.
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Life in Japan
Practical guides for navigating daily life in Japan as a foreign resident.
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Retro Computing
Running modern Linux on vintage hardware. Yes, the Sony VAIO P.
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Retro Gaming
PlayStation 1 and beyond, because some games age like fine wine.
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Road Trips
Multi-day road trip GPS logs: routes, elevation, speed charts, and day-by-day breakdowns.
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Self-Hosting
Running my own infrastructure: Mastodon, Forgejo, Navidrome, and more.
About Me¶
What Drives Me
- Open Source, Contributing to and advocating for free software
- Self-Hosting, Running my own services and infrastructure
- Japanese Culture, Living and working in Japan
- Mountain Quest, Hiking all of Japan's mountains
Live System Health
| Service | Status | Monitoring |
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| Website Build |  |
Real-time CI/CD |
| Infrastructure | 24/7 automated monitoring |
Connect & Follow¶
Updates on tech, self-hosting, and life in Japan
Self-hosted Git repositories
Console & Retro Browser Access
This site is also accessible at retro.benoit.jp.net over plain HTTP, intended for retro machines and console browsers like w3m and links. Accessing from a modern browser will likely fail, as HSTS on the main domain causes browsers to enforce HTTPS, which is not available on the retro subdomain.
Where You Won't Find Me
Some platforms and I just don't get along.
- X (Twitter), Left before it became performance art. (why)
- Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), I prefer my data where I left it: with me. (why)
- LinkedIn, Corporate networking theatre isn't my scene. (why)
I'm a firm believer in open-source, federated alternatives that respect privacy and put users in control. Find me on Mastodon instead, no algorithm, no ads, no surveillance.
Automated Systems & Spam Detection
Are you a bot?! Feel free to send emails to proton3963@benoit.jp.net. Thank you for training my rspamd ;)