Rick Harrison
CTO & Co-Founder at narwhal for reddit
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRick Harrison is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with 14 years of experience building consumer and regulated SaaS products from San Francisco. As Co-Founder and CTO of Meadow (YC W15), he leads engineering for a POS and compliance platform for cannabis dispensaries, pairing product focus with domain-specific regulatory rigor. He previously co-founded Narwhal for Reddit and has senior engineering experience at Apple, demonstrating both startup grit and the discipline of large-scale engineering. A pragmatic full-stack developer, Rick contributes to open source—maintaining and improving validate.js—highlighting attention to UX and front-end robustness. He holds dual BS degrees in Information Sciences & Technology and Economics from Penn State, combining technical depth with business insight. Known for shipping polished consumer experiences, he excels at turning complex requirements into reliable, user-friendly systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Sciences and Technology and BS Economics, BS Information Sciences and Technology and BS Economics at Penn State University
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Github Skills (15)
regular-expression10
javascript10
form-validation10
iphone9
uitableview9
html8
uitextview6
objective-c6
ios6
orientation6
cocoa-touch6
rotation6
resize6
ipad6
uiview6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rickharrison/validate.js
Oct 2011 - Dec 2016
Lightweight JavaScript form validation library inspired by CodeIgniter.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 107 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the `validate.js` library by addressing bug fixes, enhancing functionality, and improving code quality. Their work involved fixing comparison operators, updating the email regex to the HTML5 standard, and merging pull requests from other contributors, incorporating new features and improvements. They also refactored the codebase by changing a comment style and cleaning up method to determine if the form name was passed or not.
codeignitervalidationjavascriptvalidation-libraryjavascript-form-validation
ember-cli/broccoli-asset-rev
May 2014 - Nov 2020
Broccoli plugin to add fingerprint checksums and CDN URLs to your assets
Contributions:56 commits, 36 PRs, 65 pushes in 6 years 6 months
urlsfingerprintbroccoli-pluginassetscdn
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