Behdad Esfahbod (born 1982) is an Iranian-Canadian software engineer and free software developer, best known for creating HarfBuzz. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology and a master's degree in computer science and an MBA from the University of Toronto, and he won a silver medal at the 1999 International Olympiad in Informatics and a gold medal in 2000. He worked at Red Hat, then as a senior staff software engineer at Google from 2010 and as a software engineer at Facebook from February 2019 to July 2020. He sat on the board of the GNOME Foundation from 2007 to 2010, serving as president from 2008 to 2009, contributed to the Cairo, fontconfig, HarfBuzz and Pango libraries, and received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013.
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