Brad Fitzpatrick

Brad Fitzpatrick

Brad Fitzpatrick
Born February 5, 1980 (1980-02-05) (age 32)
Iowa, United States
Occupation Programmer

Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa), is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of a variety of free software projects such as memcached.

Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and majored in computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle.

LiveJournal eventually became a full-time job and then a company, which he called Danga Interactive. In January 2005, Fitzpatrick sold Danga to Six Apart, for an undisclosed sum of cash and stock.[1] He was named chief architect of Six Apart.[2] He left Six Apart in August 2007 and joined the LiveJournal Advisory Board in 2008.[3] He now works for Google[4] where he has contributed to Android[5], created PubSubHubbub[6] and is now part of the Go programming language team[7].

References

  1. ^ Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal (5 January 2005)
  2. ^ Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal! (5 January 2006)
  3. ^ LiveJournal’s New Advisory Board Includes Fitzpatrick
  4. ^ LiveJournal creator leaves as Six Apart fails to spin
  5. ^ New Gingerbread API: StrictMode
  6. ^ PubSubHubBub project page
  7. ^ Go Language contributors

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