Jafar Kianpour is an MA holder of TEFL. He has been teaching English for 15 years in various language institutes, companies and a university in Tehran, Iran. He is fond of using technology in his classes and likes surfing, joining online English communities and designing educational websites. Jafar created his first ELT website back in 2006 using joomla. A year later he discovered the great power of drupal and started learning and using this amazing content management framework (CMF). LanguageTies.com is the outcome of his web design knowledge tied up with ELT.

Among Jafar's other interests are hiking, playing badminton, photography and playing the santour.