Frédéric Lepied (born 1967) is a French computer engineer, and was the CTO of
Mandriva
Mandriva S.A. was a public software company specializing in Linux and open-source software. Its corporate headquarters was in Paris, and it had development centers in Metz, France and Curitiba, Brazil. Mandriva, S.A. was the developer and maint ...
until January 2006.
Biography
Born in 1967, Frédéric Lepied took an early interest in computer science and was educated at the
Bréguet school in
Noisy-le-Grand
Noisy-le-Grand () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. The commune of Noisy-le-Grand is part of the sector of Porte de Paris, one of the four sectors of the "new town" of Marne-la-Vallée ...
, 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
Debian's
lintian
Lintian is a helper tool used in conjunction with dpkg, the Debian package management system. It checks Debian Software package (installation), software packages for common inconsistencies and errors. As of Nov 10th 2022, the latest version compl ...
program), and the maintainer of several core packages, including
XFree86
XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System. It was originally written for Unix-like operating systems on IBM PC compatibles and was available for many other operating systems and platforms. It is free and open source software under the X ...
and the
initscripts. At that time he wrote an
O'Reilly
O'Reilly ( ga, Ó Raghallaigh) is a group of families, ultimately all of Irish Gaelic origin, who were historically the kings of East Bréifne in what is today County Cavan. The clan were part of the Connachta's Uí Briúin Bréifne kindred a ...
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
Intel Corporation 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
Red Hat in 2015.
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1967 births
Living people
French computer scientists
Free software programmers
French computer programmers
French businesspeople
Mandriva Linux
Debian people
Intel people
Red Hat people
Red Hat employees
Emacs