Komeil Bahmanpour
Komeil Bahmanpour کمیل بهمنپور | |
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| Born | January 28, 1978 |
| Nationality |  Iranian |
| Occupation(s) | President of Chortkeh, author |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Known for | Co-founding Chortkeh, contributing to the Unicode Standard |
| Awards | Best World/Farsi Editor, 2004 ODP Autumn Editor Awards[1] |
| Website | Komeil.com |
Komeil Bahmanpour (born January 28, 1978) is an Iranian entrepreneur, software architect and author. He is a co-founder and the president of Chortkeh.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Komeil Bahmanpour was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. Thanks to his father being an influential banker, he grew up learning about IBM mainframes at Tejarat Bank Bureau of Informatics. Starting his profession as a teenager in 1992, he studied computer programming in IUST and obtained his IBM mainframe Assembly programming license. He has also studied software engineering at Azad South Tehran University of Technology.[3]
Career
[edit]In 1999, Komeil Bahmanpour was introduced to an American electronic forms software company willing to open overseas subsidiaries for the purpose of Middle Eastern software development and marketing. The deal went on and Chortkeh (Persian: چرتکه)—back then doing business as Chortkeh Rayaneh Hamrah, LLC (Persian: چرتکه رایانه همراه، شرکت با مسئولیت محدود)—was established.[3]
Chortkeh
[edit]He was assigned as the chief software architect also managing development teams working on projects in different fields such as document conversion into electronic forms, virtual printer, object recognition, barcode, etc.
Open Directory Project
[edit]Between 2003 and 2007, Komeil Bahmanpour was an editor at Netscape's ODP,[4] also maintaining an unaffiliated site in Persian portal at Dmoz.ir.[5]
He won the Best World/Farsi Editor at the 2004 ODP Autumn Editor Awards.[1]
Bahmanpour was involved in a decision to change the URL of the Persian ODP from Dmoz.org/World/Farsi/ into Dmoz.org/World/Persian/.[6]
Unicode contribution
[edit]Multilingual software and fonts have always been his main interests. He has contributed to the development of the Unicode Standard,[7] especially in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages.[8] He also authored Chortkeh Font Toolbox, a font management software suite comprising the freeware[9] Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer[10][11] since January 19, 2002.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Best World/Farsi Editor, 2004 Autumn Editor Awards" (GIF). Open Directory Project. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "Chortkeh Rescheduled Product Releases Due To Iranian Protests". eForms News. July 12, 2009. Archived from the original on August 21, 2011. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ a b "An Interview with Komeil Bahmanpour: The Brains behind Chortkeh". eForms News. July 9, 2002. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
- ^ "Profile - komeil". Open Directory Project. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "Persian Web Directory" (in Persian). Chortkeh. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ Komeil Bahmanpour (August 18, 2007). "Google Directory Updated after 5-Month Delay in the Long Run, Unchanged for a Year and a Half". Komeil Bahmanpour. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ^ "Write Persian Appropriately!" (in Persian). JameJam Newspaper. August 22, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ^ "Chortkeh Satisfied with the Office InfoPath Research and Development Program". eForms News. November 5, 2003. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ "Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer 2.0". CNET. August 14, 2009. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- ^ Luc Devroye. "Font Managers". McGill University School of Computer Science. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ^ "Download Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer 2.0". Yahoo! Downloads. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
- ^ Komeil Bahmanpour (January 19, 2002). "Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer 1.1". Komeil Bahmanpour. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
