[1] He was also a co-founder of MandrakeSoft (which merged in Mandriva, now discontinued) with Jacques Le Marois and Frédéric Bastok.

[2] Gaël Duval was responsible for communication in the Mandriva management team until he was laid off by the company in March 2006, in a round of cost-cutting.

[8] In November 2017, Gael Duval created the /e/ mobile operating system,[9] which is a privacy-oriented fork of the Android-based LineageOS accompanied with a set of online services.

[10][11][12] In 2018, Duval founded the E Foundation, which maintains /e/,[13][14] and ECORP SAS, a privately held corporation, which operates their online sales and services sites.

[15][16] Duval is a graduate of the University of Caen Normandy in France, where he studied networks and documentary applications.