About Brad Fitzpatrick
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 == Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon where he attended Aloha High School, and majored in computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle. He started his first company, FreeVote.com, while in high school. Fitzpatrick is married to Kate Fitzpatrick. They have three children. == Career == LiveJournal grew out of a journaling program Fitzpatrick wrote for himself as a college freshman. 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. He was named chief architect of Six Apart. He left Six Apart in August 2007, moving to Google, and in 2008, after the sale of LiveJournal to SUP Media, joined the LiveJournal Advisory Board.
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