Eugene Roshal

Eugene Roshal (Евгений Лазаревич Рошал; born 1972) is a Russian software engineer.

Career
Roshal is best known as the developer of:


 * RAR file format (1993)
 * WinRAR file archiver (1995)
 * FAR file manager (1996)

The RAR compression algorithm is officially owned by his older brother Alexander, because Eugene Roshal has "no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time."