Brian Hunt
Chief Technology Officer at NetPleadings Inc.
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hunt is a seasoned technology leader and founder who blends 13+ years of engineering and legal experience to build transformative legal-tech platforms as CTO of MinuteBox and founder of NetPleadings. A former litigator with an LLB/JD from Queen’s, he uniquely combines courtroom experience with hands-on software development—he's a core maintainer of the pioneering Knockout.js framework and led modern evolution efforts with TKO. His background spans low-level C++/Perl systems work to responsive front-end improvements (including cross-browser CSS binding fixes for SVG in Knockout), giving him rare full-stack fluency in regulated, data-sensitive domains. Brian’s track record shows an ability to turn complex legal workflows into auditable, production-grade web applications while advancing open-source tooling that underpins rich UIs.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyBSc Mathematics, BSc Mathematics at University of New BrunswickLLB/JD Law, LLB/JD Law at Queen's University
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Github Skills (36)
pylint10
knockout10
javascript10
character-encoding10
twitter-bootstrap10
jquery10
python10
css10
google-app-engine10
validation10
databinding10
modal-dialog10
virtualenv10
jquery-ui10
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
knockout/knockout
Oct 2014 - May 2018
Knockout makes it easier to create rich, responsive UIs with JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 13 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the CSS binding functionality within the Knockout library. Their work involved refactoring tests related to CSS class toggling, specifically migrating from `className` to `classList`. They added tests to ensure the CSS binding worked correctly with SVG elements and addressed browser compatibility issues, including those related to classList support in different browsers. Furthermore, they fixed issues related to dynamic CSS class changes.
javascriptknockoutmvvmdata-binding
knockout/tko.bind
Feb 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
tkodomobservablebinding
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