Education
University of Washington.
University of Washington.
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 Camlistore. Born in Iowa, Fitzpatrick grew up in Beaverton, Oregon and majored in computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle. LiveJournal eventually became a full-time job and then a company, which he called Danga Interactive.
He was named chief architect of Six Apart.
He left Six Apart in August 2007 and joined the LiveJournal Advisory Board in 2008. He now works for Google as Staff Engineer and is part of the Go programming language team