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Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa
Iowa

The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....
), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 programmer
Programmer

A programmer is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software....
. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal
LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free software and open source software Server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community....
 and is the author of a variety of free software
Free software

Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware...
 projects such as memcached
Memcached

memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites....
, notably used on LiveJournal
LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free software and open source software Server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community....
, Facebook
Facebook

Facebook is a free-access social network service website that is operated and privately held company by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people....
 and YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
.

Born in Iowa
Iowa

The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....
, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon
Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, Oregon, Oregon, United States, seven miles west of Portland, Oregon in the Tualatin River Valley., its population is estimated to be 86,205, almost 14% more than the United States Census, 2000 figure of 76,129....
 and majored in computer science
Computer science

Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
 at the University of Washington
University of Washington

University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as UW or the U, it is the largest university in the northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast....
 in Seattle.

LiveJournal eventually became a full-time job and then a company, which he called Danga Interactive
Danga Interactive

Danga Interactive is a software and Internet company most widely known for its LiveJournal service. The company's slogan is "We make cool stuff." The company was founded under the name Bradfitz, Inc., on August 27, 1999, by Brad Fitzpatrick, who also created LiveJournal....
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Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa
Iowa

The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....
), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 programmer
Programmer

A programmer is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software....
. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal
LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free software and open source software Server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community....
 and is the author of a variety of free software
Free software

Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware...
 projects such as memcached
Memcached

memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites....
, notably used on LiveJournal
LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free software and open source software Server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community....
, Facebook
Facebook

Facebook is a free-access social network service website that is operated and privately held company by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people....
 and YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
.

Born in Iowa
Iowa

The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....
, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon
Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, Oregon, Oregon, United States, seven miles west of Portland, Oregon in the Tualatin River Valley., its population is estimated to be 86,205, almost 14% more than the United States Census, 2000 figure of 76,129....
 and majored in computer science
Computer science

Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
 at the University of Washington
University of Washington

University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as UW or the U, it is the largest university in the northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast....
 in Seattle.

LiveJournal eventually became a full-time job and then a company, which he called Danga Interactive
Danga Interactive

Danga Interactive is a software and Internet company most widely known for its LiveJournal service. The company's slogan is "We make cool stuff." The company was founded under the name Bradfitz, Inc., on August 27, 1999, by Brad Fitzpatrick, who also created LiveJournal....
. In January 2005, Fitzpatrick sold Danga to Six Apart
Six Apart

Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an international presence in Paris and Tokyo....
, for an undisclosed sum of cash and stock
STOCK

Software for fixed assets management and stock control developed in 2004. Stocktaking process is carried using a hand-held mobile terminal equipped with barcode reader or RFID technology....
. He was named chief architect of Six Apart
Six Apart

Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an international presence in Paris and Tokyo....
. He left Six Apart in August 2007, citing a need to move on to different projects, and had not been active in LiveJournal's development for about two years, but joined the LiveJournal Advisory Board in 2008. He now works for Google
Google

Google Inc. is an United States public company, earning revenue from AdWords related to its Google search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Apps, Orkut, and YouTube services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the Google Search Appliance....
.

Brad is an avid scuba diver
Scuba diving

SCUBA diving is Underwater diving, or taking part in another activity, while using a scuba set. By carrying a source of breathing gas , the scuba diver is able to stay underwater longer than with the simple breath-holding techniques used in snorkeling and free-diving, and is not hindered by air lines to a remote air source....
 and motorcyclist.

Free Software


Some noteworthy free software projects by Fitzpatrick:

  • memcached
    Memcached

    memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites....
    , a memory caching system designed to ease database load on large webserving applications, and used in many other situations as well;
  • Perlbal
    Perlbal

    Perlbal is a Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and web server. Perlbal is maintained by a group connected to Danga Interactive. The program is usually used by large web sites, to distribute the load over a number of servers....
    , a load balancer and reverse proxy;
  • MogileFS, a distributed file system;
  • djabberd, a Jabber server;
  • PicPix, a photo-hosting service.
  • Brackup, a flexible backup tool.


Since many of these applications were motivated by the real-world needs of LiveJournal, they are often useful for other database-driven websites, and have been used with several other websites and applications.

Before LiveJournal, Fitzpatrick created FreeVote, a site hosting web-based voting booths. More recently, he created the OpenID
OpenID

OpenID is an open, decentralized standard for user Authentication#Access control, allowing users to log onto many services with the same digital identity....
 single sign-on
Single sign-on

Single sign-on is a method of access control that enables a user to log in once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems without being prompted to log in again....
 mechanism.

External links

  • - personal homepage