# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brad-fitzpatrick
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:26:13.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brad-fitzpatrick"
name: "Brad Fitzpatrick"
slug: "brad-fitzpatrick"
description: "Bradley Joseph Fitzpatrick is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of a variety of free software projects such as memcached, WebSub, OpenID, and Perkeep."
tagline: "American programmer and creator of LiveJournal"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bradfitz-sunglasses.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1980-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.921530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 51
totalFollowers: 13382
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/bradfitz"
    handle:    "bradfitz"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/bradfitz"
    handle:    "bradfitz"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradfitz/"
    handle:    "bradfitz"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://bradfitz.com"
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/bradfitz"
    handle:    "bradfitz"
    followers: 13382
sources:
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    title: "布萊德·菲茲派翠克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "براد فيتزباتريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "براد فيتزباتريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bred_Fitspatrik"
    title: "Bred Fitspatrik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick"
    title: "Brad Fitzpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick"
    title: "Brad Fitzpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "براد فیتزپاتریک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%B4"
    title: "Фицпатрик, Брэд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick"
    title: "Brad Fitzpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%86%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA"
    title: "Бред Фіцпатрік"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88_%D9%81%D9%B9%D8%B2_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B1%DA%A9"
    title: "بریڈ فٹز پیٹرک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick"
    title: "Brad Fitzpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2392234"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump