Jean-Loup Gailly

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.

He wrote a chapter on fractal image compression for Mark Nelson's The Data Compression Book.

From 1990 to 1995, 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.