Olivier Fourdan is the creator of the
Xfcedesktop environment, for which development began at the end of 1996.[1][2]
He started his career as a new technologies production engineer as well as in web development and
embedded Linux systems.[3]
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
Mesa3D.[4][5][6]