Joseph J. Allaire

Joseph J. Allaire, born in 1969 and known as J. J. Allaire, is an American software engineer and internet entrepreneur who created the ColdFusion programming language and web application server. He received a bachelor degree from Macalester College in 1991. In 1995 he created ColdFusion and founded Allaire Corporation in Minneapolis, moving it to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1996 with his brother Jeremy Allaire. He served as its chairman and chief executive, then as executive vice president of products after David Orfao was hired as chief executive. Allaire Corporation held its initial public offering in 1999 and was acquired by Macromedia in 2001. He later co-founded Onfolio, which Microsoft bought in 2006, and created Windows Live Writer, co-founded FitNow and its Lose It! application in 2008, and founded RStudio in 2009, now Posit, where he is chief executive.