Template:Short description Template:Infobox person 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, PubSubHubbub, OpenID, and Perkeep.
Personal lifeEdit
Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon, and majored in computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle. He started his first company, FreeVote.com, while in high school.<ref name=Chron/>
Fitzpatrick is married to Kate Fitzpatrick. They have three children.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
LiveJournal grew out of a journaling program Fitzpatrick wrote for himself as a college freshman.<ref name=BW>LiveJournal: Brad Fitzpatrick, BusinessWeek (August 14, 2006) </ref><ref name=Chron>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)</ref> 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.<ref name=BW/><ref name=Chron/><ref>Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal, eWeek (January 5, 2005)Template:Dead link</ref> He was named chief architect of Six Apart.<ref>Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal!, LiveJournal (5 January 2006) Template:Webarchive</ref> He left Six Apart in August 2007, moving to Google,<ref>Owen Thomas, LiveJournal creator leaves as Six Apart fails to spin, Valleywag (August 6, 2007) Template:Webarchive</ref> and in 2008, after the sale of LiveJournal to SUP Media, joined the LiveJournal Advisory Board.<ref>Kristen Nicol, LiveJournal's New Advisory Board Includes Fitzpatrick, Mashable (February 28, 2008)</ref> In June 2010 the board was dissolved,<ref>Our heartfelt thanks to the LiveJournal Advisory Board, LiveJournal (June 23, 2010)</ref> ending his involvement with LiveJournal. At Google he was a Staff Software Engineer and was part of the Go programming language team.<ref>Go Language contributors</ref>
In January 2020, Fitzpatrick announced<ref>Leaving Google, bradfitz.com (January 27, 2020)</ref> he was leaving Google. Three days later he joined Tailscale<ref>Template:Cite twitter</ref> as a late-stage co-founder.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="tcseriesb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HonorsEdit
In June 2014, the University of Washington School of Computer Science and Engineering gave Fitzpatrick an award for Early Career Achievement.<ref>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)</ref>