Mehdi Hasan Khan ( bn, মেহেদী হাসান খান) is a

Bangladeshi Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...

physician and software developer. He is known for inventing free and open source Bengali keyboard

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in 2003.

Early life

Khan was born in Dhaka on July 23, 1986. After completing his secondary from

Ideal School and College Ideal School and College ( bn, আইডিয়াল স্কুল অ্যান্ড কলেজ), also known as Motijheel Ideal School and College or Ideal High School (which was its name until 1990) is an educational institution in Ba ...

and higher secondary from Notre Dame College, Khan obtained his

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...

degree from Mymensingh Medical College in 2010.

Avro

Khan started

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Avro for Windows in 2003 when he was a first year student of Mymensingh Medical College. It was first published on web for free download on March 26, 2003, under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Initially, it was developed in Visual Basic, which was later rewritten in

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. After discussion, OmicronLab published the source code of 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.

Later life

After developing arvo keyboard as a side project, he fully involved his career as a backend software developer. Dr. Hasan have also worked in mPower Social Enterprises, Eniacs, Okdoit, HungryNaki, Backpack Technologies and ShopUp. During 2020 he shifted to Berlin as a Senior Backend Engineer of MoBerries. He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer at

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based in Berlin.

References

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