Chet Harrison
Principal at Trico Realty, Inc.
Newport Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChet Harrison is a Principal based in Newport Beach with 12 years of software and product leadership experience, blending technical depth with real-estate entrepreneurship. He leads strategic initiatives at Trico Realty while founding Nimble Chef, a consumer-focused cooking app, demonstrating a knack for turning domain expertise into digital products. A former commercial land broker and GIS specialist, Chet brings strong analytical instincts and practical project delivery across diverse sectors. He’s an active front-end contributor to the widely used RxJS project, adding Marionette/Backbone event integration and AMD compatibility fixes that improved framework interoperability. Outside work he’s creative and performance-minded—an experienced musician and composer—which informs his collaborative, design-oriented approach to building delightful user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of MinnesotaHarbor Day SchoolNot really sure, Not really sure at University of Colorado at BoulderMilton AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
event-handling10
rxjs10
front-end-development9
amd8
ajax6
uiwebview6
user-interface6
sdk6
iphone6
uiviewcontroller6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Reactive-Extensions/RxJS
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 comments, 5 issues in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chet focused on integrating Backbone.Marionette event handling within the RxJS library. They added support for `fromEvent` functionality with Marionette, addressing initial issues related to loading order and AMD compatibility. Further refinements involved detecting Backbone and Marionette to enable the correct event listeners and resolving a specific AMD problem to ensure proper library integration. The overall impact was expanding the RxJS library's compatibility and usability with the Marionette framework.
functional-programmingjavascriptreactive-programmingreactive-extensionsextensions
ChetHarrison/A-Gentle-Introduction-to-Functional-JavaScript
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:71 commits, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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