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~/ about est. September 2020

An independent
software company,
small on purpose.

Founded in Sanem, Luxembourg, by Lionel Bergeret, after two decades of engineering experience at Sony, PacketVideo, Safecast, and Trainspot KK in Tokyo.

// who

Internet Village s.à r.l.s. is an independent software company based in Sanem, Luxembourg, founded in September 2020 by Lionel Bergeret (M.Sc. Computer Science, Université de Namur).

The company builds on twenty years of prior engineering work in Tokyo and Brussels: embedded media at Sony, software security at PacketVideo, radiation sensors and the global mapping platform at Safecast (Good Design Awards 2013 and 2014), and event-technology infrastructure at Trainspot KK, where Lionel continues as CTO.

We design and build embedded systems, backend services, mobile applications, and the integration layers that connect them. Engagements typically cover everything from initial specification to production deployment and long-term maintenance.

Clients are typically based in Luxembourg, Belgium, or Japan, with remote engagements elsewhere in Europe. Working languages: English, French; conversational Japanese (JLPT N3).

// values

Security as a design constraint

Security is treated as a design constraint at the specification stage, not as a final-phase audit. Threat models, secure defaults, input validation, and least-privilege access are part of the initial architecture.

Production-grade engineering

Systems are built to run in production for years. That implies realistic estimates, readable code, automated tests, structured logging, and runtime metrics.

Long-term maintainability

Twenty years of engineering in consumer electronics, embedded media, and event technology. We choose long-term maintainability over short-term speed.

// timeline

  1. 2000–2007

    Sony TechSoft Europe, Brussels

    Senior software engineer. Real-time video streaming over HTTP / SSL-TLS / RTP / RTSP. MPEG-2 decompression and MPEG-4 / AAC analysers on Nucleus, VxWorks, and embedded Linux.

  2. 2007–2010

    Sony Corporation, Tokyo

    Senior software engineer. VOD streaming frameworks for consumer-electronics devices on VxWorks and Linux, inter-processor communication, ARM boot-time optimisation, UPnP / DLNA.

  3. 2010–2014

    PacketVideo Japan, Tokyo

    Software security engineer. iOS and Android software security: LLVM-based obfuscation and reverse-engineering hardening. HEVC playback on iOS.

  4. 2011–2015

    Safecast, Tokyo

    Embedded software architect. Designed radiation sensors and the global mapping platform at Safecast: bGeigie Nano hardware, real-time data collection over GPS / I2C / SPI, and interpolation + mapping tools in Python (matplotlib, griddata). Good Design Awards 2013 (sensor) and 2014 (mapping solution).

  5. 2015–today

    Trainspot KK, Tokyo (CTO)

    Event-technology platform: cloud backends supporting >100k users per event, NFC-based payments and access control on Raspberry Pi and Famoco rugged outdoor Android handhelds (custom Android client with LLVM-style obfuscation, NXP MIFARE UltraLight C wristbands), NVIDIA Jetson computer-vision pipelines, BLE beacon networks for participant tracking, and the cross-platform mobile apps used to operate them.

  6. 2020–today

    Internet Village s.à r.l.s., Luxembourg

    Founded in September 2020 by Lionel Bergeret. Independent software company serving clients in Luxembourg, Belgium, and Japan across embedded systems, software security, mobile, web, and IoT.

// specialisations

  • Embedded systems on ARM, ESP32, STM32
  • Computer vision on NVIDIA Jetson
  • Mobile sensors (Good Design Awards 2013 & 2014)
  • Software security: LLVM obfuscation, RE hardening, WASM sandboxing
  • Secure software in Rust and WebAssembly
  • Embedded media: MPEG-2/4, H.264, HEVC, HLS, DASH
  • Cross-platform mobile in Flutter and Dart
  • Event technology: NFC payments, BLE tracking, real-time backends
  • AI integration: chatbots, recommendation systems, RAG knowledge bases
  • LLM stack: Mistral, Ollama, self-hosted models (vLLM, llama.cpp)
  • Agent tooling: FastMCP, MCP servers, Pi Agent
  • European hosting: Scaleway, Infomaniak, Hetzner, Contabo

Legal name

Internet Village s.à r.l.s.

Founded

September 2020

R.C.S. Luxembourg

B244.614

Service area

Luxembourg, Belgium, Japan