About Jean-Loup Gailly
Born 1956. Jean-Loup Gailly is a French engineer, programmer and computer scientist.
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.
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French computer programmer
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Jean-Loup Gailly was born in 1956.
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Jean-Loup Gailly is French.
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