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Biography
Roozbeh Pournader (Persian: روزبه پورنادر, Persian pronunciation: [ɾuːz'be puːɾ'nɑːdeɾ] born April 1980) is an Iranian-American free software activist. After establishment of Persian Wikipedia, he became first system operator (Sysop) and administrator of the project. He was a major assistant, participant and co-founder of the Persian Wikipedia. Also he is the first bureaucrat and developer of the project.
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.
He finally moved to California, U.S. and served in HighTech Passport, Ltd and then was hired by Google.
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.
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.
Honors
- 1995 - silver medal of International Olympiad in Informatics.
- 1996 - golden medal of International Olympiad in Informatics.
- 2009 - bulldog award of Unicode Consortium.