Who I Am
I’m Grégory “Gure” Maurel. French, based in Luxembourg, with a Japanese soul shaped by 8 formative years in Japan (2005-2014).
By day I’m a General Manager at a Tokyo-headquartered group: I lead brand protection operations and the partnerships behind them across domain names, trademarks, IP and IPv4, and I’m one of the people driving the company’s AI transformation, building the automation that runs our work. By night I read philosophy, build personal AI infrastructure, and break into machines (legally) to see how they fail.
I earned a Master’s in Japanese Studies from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, interned at the French Embassy in Tokyo, and built a 15-year career bridging European and Japanese business cultures. That cross-cultural foundation shapes how I approach everything: precision meets creativity, discipline meets balance.
What I Do
Build things. Personal AI infrastructure, automated intelligence pipelines, full-stack applications, this site, and increasingly the agents that automate my professional work. I believe in tools that solve real problems for real people.
Break things. Offensive security is a serious hobby and a way of thinking: I understand systems by finding where they fail. I hold the CompTIA trifecta and Linux Essentials and I’m working through the eJPT, not as a career move but because the mindset sharpens everything else: ideas, strategies, assumptions.
Read things. The Western Canon is my structured reading program through Western thought from Homer to the present. The reading list starts at 367 books and will grow over time.
Skills
- Leadership & Operations: brand protection, IP & domain-name strategy, IPv4 transactions, international alliances & negotiation, P&L turnaround
- AI & Automation: AI transformation, agentic workflow automation, LLM integration, prompt engineering
- Security: ISO 27001 governance, DNS infrastructure, OSINT, offensive security (hobby)
- Languages: French (native), English (fluent), Japanese (fluent, JLPT N1)
Certifications
| Certification | Status |
|---|---|
| Linux Essentials (LPI) | Active |
| CompTIA Security+ ce | Expired 2025 |
| CompTIA Network+ ce | Expired 2025 |
| CompTIA A+ ce | Expired 2025 |
| eJPT (INE) | In Progress |
Offensive security is an ongoing personal interest. I’m working through the eJPT, and what lies beyond is just curiosity.
Philosophy
I think of my worldview as a Franco-Japanese synthesis. From Japan I took kaizen, the discipline of continuous improvement, and bushido’s emphasis on duty and self-mastery. From France I kept the insistence on quality of life, slow meals, and the right to rest without guilt. The two traditions balance each other well.
The thinkers who shaped me most: the Stoics (Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus) for resilience and clarity. Montaigne for honest self-examination. Spinoza for understanding cause and effect without flinching. Nietzsche for the will to create your own values. Camus for doing the work anyway, even when meaning is uncertain.
The common thread is deliberate living: designing your life rather than defaulting into one.