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bradfitz.com

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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

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