David Recordon Leaves Six Apart To Join Facebook

David Recordon, the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart, is leaving the company to join Facebook after two years at the company. Recordon made the announcement on his blog, where he writes that he is joining Facebook’s Engineering team as a Senior Open Programs Manager, and will continue to work on open source and open standards inside Facebook. Over the last two years at Six Apart, Recordon was the Open Platforms Tech Lead.

Besides Six Apart, Recordon has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies such as OpenID. In 2005, Recordon collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the original development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol on the web.

According to Recordon, Facebook has always been built on open source software, has released powerful open source infrastructure technologies such as Thrift, and this year become an active member of the Activity Streams and OpenID communities from a standards side. So Recordon will continue to focus on open source and standards at Facebook.

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