Mehdi Hasan Khan
| Mehdi Hasan Khan | |
|---|---|
| Native name | মেহেদী হাসান খান |
| Born | July 23, 1986 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| 🎓 Alma mater | * Notre Dame College |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Inventing Avro Keyboard |
| 🌐 Website | mehdikhan |
Mehdi Hasan Khan (Bengali: মেহেদী হাসান খান) is a Bangladeshi physician and software developer.[1][2] He is known for inventing free and open-source Bengali keyboard Avro in 2003.[1][3][4][5][6][7]
Early life
Khan was born in Dhaka on July 23, 1986.[2] After completing his secondary from Ideal School and College and higher secondary from Notre Dame College, Khan obtained his MBBS degree from Mymensingh Medical College in 2010.[2][8]
Avro
Khan started developing Avro for Windows in 2003 when he was a first year student of Mymensingh Medical College. It was first published on the web for free download on March 26, 2003, under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.[2][9] Initially, it was developed in Visual Basic, which was later rewritten in Delphi. After discussion,[10] OmicronLab published the source code of the windows version under MPL 1.1 license with the Avro Keyboard 5.0.5 public beta 1. Avro was further developed by M. M. Rifat-Un-Nabi, Tanbin Islam Siyam, Ryan Kamal, Shabab Mustafa and Nipon Haque from OmicronLab.[2][11][12][13]
Later life
After developing Avro keyboard as a side project, he fully involved his career as a backend software developer. Dr. Hasan has also worked in mPower Social Enterprises, Eniacs, Okdoit, HungryNaki, Backpack Technologies and ShopUp.[14] During 2020 he shifted to Berlin as a Senior Backend Engineer of MoBerries. He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer at Contentful based in Berlin.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hammadi, Saad Bin Fazle. "Exploring the base of Bangla in computers". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 ইন্টারনেটে বাংলার মুক্ত আকাশ. Prothom Alo (in Bengali).
- ↑ Ahamed, Syeed (2010-04-28). "An amazing journey from Shahid Lipi to Avro". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ↑ "Dr. Mehdi Hasan In India!". Niponwave. 2009-10-16. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ↑ Diya, Sabhanaz Rashid. "The Fight Over Fonts". Star Weekend Magazine. The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ↑ Chowdhury, Syed Tashfin. "Updated Avro Keyboard, Bangaliana Dictionary". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ↑ জনপ্রিয় বাংলা টাইপ সফটওয়্যার 'অভ্র' আবিষ্কার করেও প্রচারের আড়ালে রয়ে গেলেন এই তরুণ ডাক্তার. TheWall (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ↑ Karim, Naimul. "Mehdi Hasan Khan: Creator of the Avro Software". 21 Anniversary Supplement. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ↑ Ahmed, Kazi Fahim (2006-03-10). ইউনিকোড ভিত্তিক অভ্র কি-বোর্ড. Daily Prothom Alo (in Bengali).
- ↑ ওপেন সোর্সে অভ্র : মতামত প্রয়োজন. sachalayatan.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 2021-02-18.
- ↑ নতুন বছরেই আসছে অভ্র কিবোর্ড ৫ এর ফুল ভার্শন. OmicronLab (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2018-11-06. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ জনস্বার্থে যা করার দরকার তাই করবো: মোস্তাফা জব্বার. Channel i (in Bengali). 2019-06-10. Archived from the original on 2019-06-10. Retrieved 2019-06-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hossain, Naser Imran. "The Great Technological Escape". RisingStars. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ↑ "About". mehdikhan.dev. 2020-12-30. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
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