| Jean-Loup Gailly | |
| Birth Date: | 1956 |
| Known For: | gzip |
| Website: | http://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—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.