John Resig

John Resig is an American software engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.^[5] As of 2021^[update], he works as the chief software architect at Khan Academy.^[6]

John Resig
Resig in 2010
Born	(1984-05-08) May 8, 1984 (age 41)[citation needed]
Alma mater	Rochester Institute of Technology[1][2]
Known for	jQuery Processing.js Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja[3] Pro JavaScript Techniques[4]
Scientific career
Institutions	Khan Academy Mozilla Corporation Rochester Institute of Technology
Website	johnresig.com

History

Resig graduated with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2005. During this time he worked with Ankur Teredesai^[7][8] on data mining instant messaging networks and Jon Schull on exploring new ways of encouraging real-time online collaboration.^[1]

As of 2011^[update], Resig has worked as an application developer at Khan Academy.^[9] Previously, he was a JavaScript tool developer for the Mozilla Corporation. For his work on jQuery, he was inducted into the Rochester Institute of Technology's Innovation Hall of Fame^[1] on April 30, 2010.^[1]

Software projects

Resig has started or contributed to many JavaScript libraries, including:

• jQuery^[5] a multi-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
• Processing.js,^[10] a port of the Processing language to JavaScript.^[11]
• EnvJS,^[12] a port of the browser DOM to Rhino.^[13]
• TestSwarm,^[14] a distributed continuous integration test suite for JavaScript.^[15]
• Sizzle,^[16] a standalone, pure-JavaScript, CSS selector engine.^[17]
• FUEL,^[18] a Firefox extension development kit.^[19]

Resig is a frequent guest speaker at companies like Google and Yahoo! and has presented at many conferences related to web technology, including SXSW,^[20] Webstock,^[21] MIX, and Tech4Africa.^[22]

Publications

Resig is the author of a blog,^[23] and is the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques, published by Apress in 2006,^[4][24] Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja with Bear Bibeault, published by Manning Publications in December 2012^[3] and several other papers.^[7]