Roozbeh Pournader

Roozbeh Pournader
Born April 1980
Tehran, Iran
Residence California, United States
Nationality Iranian-American
Occupation Founder of Persian Wikipedia
Roozbeh Pournader in a rainy day in Qazvin, Iran. The image was uploaded by himself on Wikicommons in 2006.

Roozbeh Pournader[1] (Persian: روزبه پورنادر‎‎, Persian pronunciation: [ɾuːz'be puːɾ'nɑːdeɾ] born April 1980) is an Iranian-American free software activist.[2][3][4][5] After establishment of Persian Wikipedia, he became first system operator (Sysop) and administrator of the project.[6] He was a major assistant, participant and co-founder of the Persian Wikipedia. Also he is the first bureaucrat and developer of the project. [7]

He participated as a technical manager at Sharif Linux Project leading by Sharif University of Technology and formerly served as a technical manager at FarsiTeX. [8][9]

He finally moved to California, U.S.A  and served in HighTech Passport, Ltd and then was hired by Google.[10][11]

Education

Pournader was born in Tehran, Iran, where he obtained his high school diploma in 1996 from Allameh Helli High Schools. Also then he graduated from Sharif University of Technology in the field of Computer Engineering.[12]

Google

Since 2011, Roozbeh has worked as an Internationalization Engineer at Google, focusing on text encoding and rendering, fonts, and bidirectional text. He joined the Android Text team in late 2014.

Activities

In 2003, Pournader was appointed to provide a report for United Nations Development Programme about computer development's situation and computer localization in Afghanistan.[13]

Honors

[14] [15][16][17]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Aftab web magazine (in Persian)
  2. ↑ «Word War III» ‎(English)‎.
  3. ↑ Aftab web magazine (in Persian)
  4. ↑ Internet magazine Cappuccino (in Persian)
  5. ↑ log of first edition of Persian Wikipedia
  6. ↑ روزشمار ویکی‌پدیای فارسی Timeline of Persian Wikipedia (in Persian)
  7. ↑ leading persons of FarsiTex (in Persian)
  8. ↑ introducing page of UniCode spokespersons at Santa Clara
  9. ↑ Official newspaper of Iran. No. 17080. Saturday, 26 Mehr 1382-2003
  10. ↑ archive.org, Unicode Conference via archive.org
  11. ↑ archive.org, Unicode Conference via archive.org
  12. ↑ «Introduction to Wikipedia».
  13. ↑ Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan
  14. ↑ l Glorification ceremony for crew who contributed to Linux Persianization program (in Persian)
  15. ↑ Pan Localization
  16. ↑ Results for 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics، Results for 1994 International Olympiad in Informatics، 2001 ACM results - official web-page of Sharif University of Technology (in Persian)
  17. ↑ UniCode Consortium main website-bulldog award
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