Olivier Fourdan

Olivier Fourdan is the creator of the Xfce desktop environment, for which development began at the end of 1996.

He started his career as a new technologies production engineer as well as in web development and embedded Linux systems.

Fourdan has been working for Red Hat since 2007, interrupted by 2 years at Intel during 2013 and 2014. As of 2017, he is active in the adoption of Wayland, working on many different components, amongst them GTK+, Mutter, GNOME Control Center, XWayland, and Mesa.