Speaker
Brad Whitaker
Senior Software Engineer, Six Apart
Brad Whitaker is Senior Software Engineer for LiveJournal, Six Apart's innovative social blogging community. Having been involved in a series of technology startups for the past 8 years and a core contributor to LiveJournal since its inception, Whitaker was instrumental in helping create key pieces of Web 2.0 architecture such as the MogileFS storage system and Memcached caching system.