He is also the founder of Virgule Typeworks, a firm focused on design and development of non-Latin fonts and text rendering. Behnam started his career as a member of the FarsiWeb project in 2002, co-founded Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc. in 2003, lead a localization team with Mozilla project from 2002 to 2009, and contributed to localization and internationalization of various open-source projects over the years. From 2006 to 2013, he was focused on development and deployment of Internationalized Domain Names, working with IRNIC ccTLD, ICANN IDN working groups, and the IETF. From 2013 to 2017, Behnam co-lead the Unicode group at the Infrastructure team at Facebook, Inc.