Jean-Loup Gailly (born 1956) is a French computer scientist and an author of gzip.
He worked on zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler.
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.
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