Eugene Roshal

Eugene Roshal (Russian: Евгений Лазаревич Рошал, romanized: Yevgeny Lazarevich Roshal; born 1972) is a Russian software engineer.

Eugene Roshal
Born	(1972-03-10) 10 March 1972 (age 53) Chelyabinsk, USSR
Alma mater	South Ural State University (former Chelyabinsk State Technical University), Faculty of Electronics
Occupation	Computer programmer
Known for	RAR, WinRAR

Career

Roshal is best known as the developer of:

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

RAR is officially owned by his elder brother Alexander,^[1] because Eugene Roshal has "no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time."^[2]