Founder Profile
Brad Fitzpatrick
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Brad Fitzpatrick?
Brad Fitzpatrick is a founder of Tailscale, which was founded in 2019 with Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw and David Carney.
- Company founded
- Tailscale
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw and David Carney
Background
Creator of LiveJournal and Memcached; long-time member of Google's Go team.
Founding Story
Brad Fitzpatrick created LiveJournal and the Memcached caching system, then spent years at Google working on the Go language. He left Google in January 2020 and joined Tailscale days later as a late-stage co-founder, working on the open-source Go client.
Brad Fitzpatrick was born in 1980 in Iowa. Education: Aloha High School.
Bradley Joseph Fitzpatrick was born on February 5, 1980. He created LiveJournal and wrote free software projects including memcached, OpenID and Perkeep.