
Academic
John Resig
American software engineer and creator of jQuery
- Life
- 1984 – present
- Born
- May 8, 1984
- Nationality
- United States
John Resig 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.




