John Resig

John Resig (born May 8, 1984) is an American software engineer and author, best known as the creator of jQuery, the most widely used JavaScript library. jQuery is used on approximately 77% of the top 10 million websites, making it the most deployed JavaScript library by a large margin. He is the chief software architect at Khan Academy, where he has worked since 2011.

Early life and education Resig earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the Rochester Institute of Technology's Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences in 2009. During his time at RIT, he conducted research on data mining instant messaging networks with professor Ankur Teredesai and explored real-time online collaboration methods with professor Jon Schull.

Career jQuery and Mozilla Resig began developing jQuery in 2005 while still a student at RIT, frustrated with the inconsistencies in cross-browser JavaScript development. The library quickly gained adoption, with the Drupal content management system selecting it as a core component, and major companies including Google, Microsoft, and Apple incorporating it into their websites. Sizzle, a standalone CSS selector engine that was later extracted from jQuery TestSwarm, a distributed continuous integration testing framework for JavaScript

Khan Academy Resig joined Khan Academy in May 2011 as an application developer and rose to the position of chief software architect. In a lecture at RIT covered by Opensource.com, Resig described how middle-school-aged students with no prior programming experience were able to create animations with variables and logic within three hours of using the platform. The arts publication Colossal described the site as collecting a wide range of prints from the early 18th century to the present, organized by artist and time period, with an image comparison system enabling scholars to study different iterations of similar prints across global collections. The Society for the History of Children and Youth noted that the site helps unify artist names that vary across collections and translates Kanji names, calling it a significant resource for researchers.

Resig has been a visiting researcher at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, focusing on the study of ukiyo-e, and has served as a board member of the Japanese Art Society of America. He has presented his digital humanities research at the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities conference (2013) and the Digital Humanities 2014 conference. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja (with Bear Bibeault, Manning Publications, 2012; second edition 2016) The GraphQL Guide (with Loren Sands-Ramshaw, self-published, 2021)

Awards and honors 2009: .Net Magazine Award for Best Open Source Application (jQuery), beating Firefox and WordPress in the final vote 2010: Inducted into the Rochester Institute of Technology Innovation Hall of Fame (inaugural class)