Brad Fitzpatrick [bradfitz.com] (original) (raw)
Hi, I'm Brad Fitzpatrick. Email: brad@danga.com.
- About me, courtesy Wikipedians, often amusingly inaccurate.
- My family: see their lacking websites (except my mom's)
Previous & current companies and projects:
- Danga: 1998-2005, company I started, developed a lot of software:memcached, MogileFS, Perlbal, etc.
- LiveJournal: 1999-2007, blogging, social networking, forums, feed aggregator. Sold to Six Apart, later sold to SUP.
- Six Apart: 2005-2007, "Chief Architect" (for backend infrastructure), created OpenID, Gearman, djabberd, ..
- Google: 2007 - 2020. Public stuff includes:
- PubSubHubbub, with Brett Slatkin
- WebFinger, with tons of Internet people, since ~2006. Added gmail support. Not finished.
- Android, performance, StrictMode [blog post], etc.
- Go Programming Language, 2010-2020; so refreshingly simple and productive. makes me giddy about writing code again after years of hating the major trade-offs between different languages.
- Perkeep (née Camlistore), my big side project and obsession (mostly written in Go, which led me to join the Go team full-time at Google)
- Tailscale, making networking simple (blog post).
The content on bradfitz.com still exists but is unlinked. Elsewhere, I can be found online at:
- keybase.io/bradfitz
- github.com/bradfitz
- twitter.com/bradfitz
- facebook.com/bradfitz, rarely used.
- brad.livejournal.com, unused these days.
- linkedin.com/in/bradfitz, mostly unused