Brad Fitzpatrick
American programmer; created LiveJournal and memcached, worked on Go, joined Tailscale.
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- Brad Fitzpatrick is an American programmer, born in Iowa in 1980.
- He created LiveJournal and, at his company Danga, memcached and other server software.
- He sold both to Six Apart in 2005, where he was chief architect and created OpenID.
- He worked at Google from 2007 to 2020, on the Go team from 2010.
- In January 2020 he joined Tailscale as a late-stage co-founder.
Key facts
- Born
- 5 February 1980, Iowa; grew up in Beaverton, Oregon1
- Danga and LiveJournal
- Danga 1998 to 2005 (memcached, MogileFS, Perlbal); LiveJournal 1999 to 20072
- Six Apart
- Chief architect, 2005 to 2007; created OpenID and Gearman2
- 2007 to 2020; Go programming language team 2010 to 20202
- Tailscale
- Joined as a late-stage co-founder in January 20201
- Projects
- Perkeep (formerly Camlistore); PubSubHubbub (WebSub); WebFinger2
Roles
Before
Part of until Jan 2020
Google (staff software engineer; Go team from 2010) source on Google
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