John Resig was born on the 8th May 1984 in USA. He is primarily a software engineer and later entrepreneur, which are the main sources of John Resig’s net worth, but he is the author of several books too. However, Resig is best known as the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. In 2010, John Resig was inducted into the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Innovation Hall of Fame. He has been active in the IT field since 2003.
How rich is the engineer and entrepreneur? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of John Resig’s net worth is as much as $50 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2016.
John Resig Net Worth $50 Million
To begin with, he was raised in a family of four children. He received his further education at the Rochester Institute of Technology, majoring in Computer Science, and while still studying he worked on exploring new technologies in a real time online collaboration with John Schull, as well as on the networks of data mining instant messaging alongside Ankur Teredesai. John graduated from the institute in 2005.
Resig began by developing the tool of programming language JavaScript. Additionally, Resig increased his net worth contributing to a number of libraries that belong to JavaScript. To give examples, he has been working on the cross platform JavaScript library entitled jQuery, which is designed to make the scripting of HTML easier, as well as on the programming language which is designed to write interactive content – Processing.js. Later, he collaborated working on the port of a Java engine Rhino as well as CSS engine selector and on the test named TestSwarm. Last but not the least, he is known for contributing to the extention kit of Firefox entitled FUEL. All these projects have contributed to his net worth.
Multinational technology companies like Yahoo! and Google constantly invite John Resig as a guest speaker. In addition to this, he has given presentations to a number of web technology conferences including Tech4Africa, MIX, Webstock, SXSW and many others. John is the author of a popular blog. Moreover, he has written two books “Pro JavaScript Techniques” (2006) as well as “Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja” (2012) which was written alongside Bear Bibeault. In 2007, he has launched Resignation Media, the company which they run together with his brother Leo Resig. As the authoritative sources claim the company has more than $100 million revenues annually which add huge sums to the total size of John and Leo net worth.
As for now, the computer engineer is developing the application at a non-profit educational organization, Khan Academy.
Finally, in the personal life of computer engineer and entrepreneur, he rarely gives interviews related to his private life as he wishes to talk only about his career. He is married to Megan, and they are currently living in Brooklyn, New York City.
