Jean-loup Gailly

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Jean-loup Gailly is 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 over zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler. He prefers to write his hyphenated first name with only the J but not the l (ell) capitalized.^[1][2]

He wrote a chapter on fractal image compression for Mark Nelson's .

From 1990 to 1995, while working for Chorus Systèmes SA, he designed the 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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• Jean-loup's home page
• Jean-loup Gailly on gzip, Go and Mandrake, an interview on Slashdot

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