FRANCE

Julien HOMMET / SRE & Tech Lead

Systems
that last.

I design, observe and harden
the systems that keep daily life running.

Follow the thread
13+ years building and running production systems

01 / Understand

Needs outline.
Constraints draw.
Architecture holds.

No ready-made answers. Every architecture starts from needs and constraints: load, budget, legacy, teams.

Years spent facing the real difficulties of production. Enough to propose lasting, viable solutions — weighed against defined criteria.

02 / Build

Make it all
hold together.

Infrastructure is not only worth what it does. It is also worth the teams’ ability to understand it and make it evolve.

01Design

Evolving legacy into a coherent, operable infrastructure.

Hyperconvergence · Proxmox · Kubernetes · Talos · Terraform
02Decide

Making informed decisions, even under technological uncertainty and in the face of constraints.

Needs analysis · Technical arbitration · Prioritization
03Build

Implementing the chosen solutions, with rigor and traceability.

Infrastructure as code · GitOps · CI/CD
04Observe

Understanding what is happening before users find out.

VictoriaMetrics · VictoriaLogs · Grafana · OpenTelemetry
05Pass on

Giving teams the tools, helping them grow and providing the landmarks to move forward autonomously.

Automation · Documentation · Tech lead · Mentoring

03 / Master

The tools
and the way.

A stack is only worth the way it is used. What I handle every day, and what matters at least as much.

01Technical
  • Proxmox · Kubernetes · Talos · Terraform · Docker · ArgoCD
  • Prometheus · Grafana · VictoriaMetrics · OpenTelemetry
  • PostgreSQL · Redis · Scaleway
  • Go · Bash · Astro · Hugo
02Method
  • Infrastructure as code, from bare metal to cluster.
  • GitOps: the desired state lives in the repository, not in someone’s head.
  • Documentation that outlives its author.
03Posture
  • Explain without jargon.
  • Decide under uncertainty.
  • Say no when needed, and why.
  • Make teams autonomous.

04 / In practice

From idea
to production.

Start from an idea or a need,
use modern technologies and build robust, useful production tools.

01 / InfrastructureOpen source

Proxmox VM
Self-Service

Create a virtual machine without knowing the cluster. An interface that makes Proxmox accessible to non-initiated users.

  • Go
  • Proxmox VE
  • Svelte
Explore the project on GitHub, new tab
VaultCertsViewerVaultCertsViewer dashboard in dark theme: 325 certificates grouped by status and the list of the closest expirations.

Real capture · VaultCertsViewer 1.9.1

02 / ObservabilityOpen source

VaultCertsViewer

Certificates expire. Surprises, on the other hand, are optional. A clear view of expirations in Vault and OpenBao.

  • Go
  • HTMX
  • Vault / OpenBao
Explore the project on GitHub, new tab
03 / Charts & imagesOpen source

HelmDownloader

Helm charts and their associated images, gathered in a verified archive for air-gapped environments. Preparing the deployment, even without network access.

  • Go
  • Helm
  • TUI
Code for HelmDownloader on GitHub, new tab
HelmDownloader final screen: Mattermost bundle created, 550.8 MiB, six images, plus the verification and load commands.
Real capture · HelmDownloader 0.3.0
04 / Container imagesOpen source

DockerDownloader

From container images to a verified archive, without a Docker daemon. A tool usable interactively or in CI, to prepare air-gapped infrastructures.

  • Go
  • OCI
  • CLI / TUI
Code for DockerDownloader on GitHub, new tab

The rest is being built.

Not launched yet.
Already in motion.

05 / Business SaaSIn development

Gestinterv

The repair workshop,
without the blind spots.

A SaaS in development for small businesses running a computer repair workshop. Tracking customer requests and interventions, designed for the workshop’s daily routine.

For whom
SMB
Business
Computer repair
Launch
Planned for
06 / In developmentNot public

vtrack

Under the hood,
for now.

A project under development, not yet public. Details stay out of the portfolio for now.

Presentation coming soon

05 / In writing

j.hommet.net, new tab

A personal blog in French, running since 2010: a sysadmin’s field notebook.
Homelab, Proxmox, Kubernetes, Linux — tutorials, lessons learned and news digests.

06 / What now?

What’s next,
together.

A system to rethink, a project to build,
or simply want to talk?