Frédéric Lepied

Frédéric Lepied
Born	1967
Nationality	French
Occupation	Software engineer
Employer	Red Hat
Known for	X Window

Frédéric Lepied (born 1967) is a French computer engineer, and was the CTO of Mandriva until January 2006.

Biography

Born in 1967, Frédéric Lepied took an early interest in computer science and was educated at the Bréguet school in Noisy-le-Grand, France.

In 1999, he joined the Mandrakesoft Research and Development team. He was known as the author of rpmlint, an RPM packages checker (similar to Debian's lintian program), and the maintainer of several core packages, including XFree86 and the initscripts. At that time he wrote an O'Reilly book on CVS (2000) and maintained the wacom tablet driver in XFree86 and in X.Org (2001). He then spent one year in Canada in the Mandrakesoft Montreal office, and became Mandrakesoft CTO when he came back to France in 2002.

Frédéric Lepied left Mandriva on February 3, 2006. He then joined Intel Corporation to manage Software manufacturers relationships. Late 2008, he joined Splitted Desktop Systems an innovative hardware company, as chief of strategy. In 2013, he became VP Software Engineering at eNovance before joining Red Hat in 2015.

Citations and sources

Sources

• Krim, Tariq (March 6, 2014). Ministry of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Innovation and the Digital Economy (ed.). "Liste d'une centaine de développeurs marquants" [List of one hundred prominent developers] (PDF) (in French). Paris, France: Ministry of the Economy and Finance (France). p. 127. Retrieved July 17, 2019. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

See also

• xinput, a utility to configure and test X input devices
• expand.el, a package released as part of Emacs