Frédéric Lepied (born 1967) is a French computer engineer, and was the CTO of

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until January 2006.

Biography

Born in 1967, Frédéric Lepied took an early interest in computer science and was educated at the Bréguet school in

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, France. In 1999, he joined the Mandrakesoft Research and Development team. He was known as the author of rpmlint, an RPM packages checker (similar to

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's lintian program), and the maintainer of several core packages, including

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and the

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. At that time he wrote an

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book on CVS (2000) and maintained the wacom tablet driver in XFree86 and in X.Org (2001). He then spent one year in Canada in the Mandrakesoft Montreal office, and became Mandrakesoft CTO when he came back to France in 2002. Frédéric Lepied left Mandriva on February 3, 2006. He then joined

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to manage Software manufacturers relationships. Late 2008, he joined Splitted Desktop Systems an innovative hardware company, as chief of strategy. In 2013, he became VP Software Engineering at eNovance before joining

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in 2015.

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