Brad Fitzpatrick
Bradley "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born
February 5,
1980 in
Iowa), often seen on the Internet under the nickname
bradfitz, is an
American programmer. He is best known as the creator of
LiveJournal,
PicPix, and
FreeVote, as well as for being the former owner of
Danga Interactive, which is now owned by
Six Apart.
Born in
Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in
Oregon and majored in
computer science at the
University of Washington in
Seattle. While there, he developed LiveJournal as an extension of a
database-driven method he had been using to update his personal journal. Fluent in
German, he spent some time living in
Germany after graduation.
Another recent project of note is
memcached, a memory caching system designed to ease database load on large webserving applications, and used in many other situations as well. Fitzpatrick is the maintainer of the project, which was also released by Danga Interactive.
In
January 2005, Fitzpatrick sold Danga to Six Apart, reportedly for an undisclosed sum of cash and
stock.[
1] He was named chief architect of
Six Apart and will continue working on LiveJournal from
San Francisco,
California, [
2], where he lives in
Noe Valley with his new wife (as of
15 July 2006),
Dina Lolich, and their
Boston Terrier pup
Major.
His latest project is the advancement of the
OpenID single sign-on mechanism.
He is an avid
SCUBA diver and
cyclist.
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BradFitz.com - personal homepage
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Fitzpatrick's personal LiveJournal*
Danga Interactive*
LiveJournal*
memcached*
Six Apart
