Jean-Loup Gailly

Computer programmer Jean-Loup GaillyBorn1956 (age 69–70)Known forgzipWebsitehttp://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 and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked on zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler. 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. From 1999 to 2001, he was the CTO of Mandrakesoft. From 2006 to 2014, he worked at Google as a Tech Lead Manager. References ^ "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 Gailly's home page Jean-Loup Gailly o