Rick Harrison
Founder at Meadow
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRick 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.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
form-validation10
javascript10
regular-expression10
html8
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.
codeigniterform-validationjavascript
meadow/sqs
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Promise/JSON based client for Amazon SQS with automatic long-polling
Contributions:17 commits, 20 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 11 months
amazon-sqslong-pollingjavascriptnodejssqs
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