Jean-loup Gailly

Jean-Loup Gailly, born in 1956, is a French computer scientist best known as an author of gzip, the widely used file compression utility, and as a collaborator with Mark Adler on the zlib compression library. He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP project and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS, and he contributed a chapter on fractal image compression to Mark Nelson's The Data Compression Book. Earlier in his career he was a senior developer on Ada compilers at Alsys from 1981 to 1989, and from 1990 to 1995 he designed the real-time executive of the ChorusOS microkernel while working for Chorus Systèmes SA. He was chief technology officer of Mandrakesoft from 1999 to 2001 and worked at Google as a Tech Lead Manager from 2006 to 2014.