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Brad Fitzpatrick

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Chief Engineer at Tailscale
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Brad Fitzpatrick is a distinguished software engineer with 35 years of experience, known for creating foundational internet technologies like LiveJournal, memcached, and OpenID. An early developer on Googles Go team, he co-founded and now serves as Chief Engineer at Tailscale. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Washington.

Outside of work, Brad is a passionate tinkerer and creator, dedicating his time to personal projects that span home automation, hardware hacking, and photography. He is also a licensed pilot who enjoys flying small aircraft, a hobby he documents on his personal blog.

He created the influential social networking platform LiveJournal while he was still a university student.

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
Chief Engineer
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Go Programming
As an early member of the Go team at Google, he authored significant parts of its standard library and continues to build with it at Tailscale.
Open Source
A long-time advocate for open-source software, having created globally recognized projects like LiveJournal, memcached, and OpenID that are still widely used today.
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Career

Work history

1-2020
Chief Engineer
Tailscale
8-2007 - 1-2020
Staff Software Engineer
Google
2005 - 2007
Chief Architect
Six Apart
1999 - 2007
Founder
LiveJournal
In the press

Media appearances

Tailscale with Avery Pennarun & Brad Fitzpatrick. Featured in Security Cryptography Whatever (Podcast)
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Brad Fitzpatrick — Co‑founder, Tailscale. Featured in Silicon Valley Investclub
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Education
1998 - 2002
BS
University of Washington
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