Brad Fitzpatrick

• Website: http://brad.livejournal.com/
• From: United States
• Organization: Six Apart

Brad Fitzpatrick created LiveJournal in 1999 and grew the company throughout and after college, later selling it to SixApart, creators of TypePad, MovableType, and Vox. The open souce infrastructure software created to keep LiveJournal alive throughout the years is now popular within the "Web 2.0" world, including memcached, MogileFS, Perlbal, and different job dispatch systems. Brad is also responsible for creating OpenID, originally designed for interop between different SixApart websites.