Jean-Loup Gailly

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Jean-Loup Gailly
Born1956
Known forgzip
Website http://gailly.net/

Jean-Loup Gailly (born 1956) is a French computer scientist and an author of gzip. He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP [1] and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked on zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler. [2]

He wrote a chapter on fractal image compression for Mark Nelson's The Data Compression Book.

From 1981 to 1989 he worked as a senior developer on Ada compilers for Alsys.

From 1990 to 1995, while working for Chorus Systèmes SA, he designed the real-time executive of the ChorusOS microkernel. [3]

From 1999 to 2001, he was the CTO of Mandrakesoft. [4]

From 2006 to 2014, he worked at Google as a Tech Lead Manager.

References

  1. ↑ "Announce: Jean-Loup Gailly named as CTO". linux-mandrake.com. 2002-02-20. Archived from the original on 2002-02-20. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  2. ↑ Wayner, Peter (2000). Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers. Morgan Kaufmann. p. 47. ISBN   978-0-12-788774-6.
  3. ↑ "LOGICIELS". Lesechos. 17 September 2001.
  4. ↑ "Linux vendor loses its heads". ZDNET. Retrieved 2025-04-06.


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