Jean-Loup Gailly
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Jean-Loup Gailly | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Known for | gzip |
| 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
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ Wayner, Peter (2000). Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers. Morgan Kaufmann. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-12-788774-6.
- ^ "LOGICIELS". Lesechos. 17 September 2001.
- ^ "Linux vendor loses its heads". ZDNET. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
External links
[edit]- Gailly's home page
- Jean-Loup Gailly on gzip, Go and Mandrake, an interview on Slashdot
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