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Brad Fitzpatrick | |
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 Fitzpatrick in 2011 | |
| Born | Bradley Joseph Fitzpatrick February 5, 1980 |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Spouse | Kate Fitzpatrick |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | bradfitz |
Bradley Joseph Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980) 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, WebSub, OpenID, and Perkeep.
Personal life
[edit]Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon where he attended Aloha High School,[1] and majored in computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle. He started his first company, FreeVote.com, while in high school.[2]
Fitzpatrick is married to Kate Fitzpatrick. They have three children.[3]
Career
[edit]LiveJournal grew out of a journaling program Fitzpatrick wrote for himself as a college freshman.[2][4] It eventually became a full-time job and then a company; in January 2005, he sold it and its parent company, Danga Interactive, to Six Apart, for an undisclosed sum of cash and stock.[2][4][5] He was named chief architect of Six Apart.[6] He left Six Apart in August 2007, moving to Google,[7] and in 2008, after the sale of LiveJournal to SUP Media, joined the LiveJournal Advisory Board.[8] In June 2010, the board was dissolved,[9] ending his involvement with LiveJournal. At Google he was a Staff Software Engineer and was part of the Go programming language team.[10]
In January 2020, Fitzpatrick announced he was leaving Google.[11] Three days later he joined Tailscale[12] as a late-stage co-founder.[13][14]
Honors
[edit]In June 2014, the University of Washington School of Computer Science and Engineering gave Fitzpatrick an award for Early Career Achievement.[15]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Brad's Life". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on November 17, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
- 1 2 3 Neva Chonin, LiveJournal grew out of one 18-year-old's frustration with Web journaling. Now Brad Fitzpatrick is on top of a blog revolution, San Francisco Chronicle (September 27, 2005)
- ↑ Fitzpatrick, Brad (March 6, 2023). "And little sister Zoe says hi too. Her older brothers are super excited. 🥰 Welcome to the family!". Twitter: Twitter. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
- 1 2 LiveJournal: Brad Fitzpatrick, BusinessWeek (August 14, 2006)
- ↑ Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal, eWeek (January 5, 2005)[dead link]
- ↑ Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal!, LiveJournal (5 January 2006) Archived 2010-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Owen Thomas, LiveJournal creator leaves as Six Apart fails to spin, Valleywag (August 6, 2007) Archived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Kristen Nicol, LiveJournal's New Advisory Board Includes Fitzpatrick, Mashable (February 28, 2008)
- ↑ Our heartfelt thanks to the LiveJournal Advisory Board, LiveJournal (June 23, 2010)
- ↑ Go Language contributors
- ↑ Leaving Google, bradfitz.com (January 27, 2020)
- ↑ Brad Fitzpatrick [@bradfitz] (30 Jan 2020). "Joining @Tailscale" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Brad Fitzpatrick". Archived from the original on 20 August 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2021 – via LinkedIn.
- ↑ Kyle, Wiggers (5 May 2022). "Tailscale lands $100 million to 'transform' enterprise VPNs with mesh technology". TechCrunch.
Avery Pennarun says that the solution lies in Tailscale, a security networking startup he co-founded with David Crashaw, David Carney and Brad Fitzpatrick.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ UW CSE's Brad Fitzpatrick wins Diamond Award for Early Career Achievement, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington (March 6, 2014)
External links
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Media related to Brad Fitzpatrick at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
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