Julia Zhenglei Liuson (Chinese: 潘正磊; born 1970) is a Chinese-born American technology executive. She is the president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub.[1]

Julia Zhenglei Liuson
潘正磊
Born1970
OccupationPresident

Liuson oversees business and software development for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework, including Visual Studio Code, all programming languages, user interfaces, team development/testing tools, and platform adoption tools. In an interview with eWEEK, Liuson said Microsoft is working to help all developers, of all platforms and languages, be successful with tools which enable innovative scenarios.[2]

Biography edit

Julia Zhenglei Liuson was born in Shanghai, China in 1970.[3]

In 1991, Liuson received a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Washington. She joined Microsoft immediately after graduation. Her initial role was as a developer first on the Access team, and later on Visual InterDev, the precursor to Visual Studio.[4]

Liuson has held a variety of technical and management positions at Microsoft. She served as development manager, and later as partner product unit manager for Visual Basic. She was then named general manager of Visual Studio Business Applications, where she was responsible for enabling developers to easily build business applications on Microsoft server and service platforms.[5]

Liuson served as general manager for server and tools business from Microsoft Shanghai office in China for two years while running engineering teams on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.[3]

Liuson presented keynote speeches and guest speakers in some business and technology events including Connect() 2015,[6][7] China Business Challenge 2014,[8] and Technet 2013 for China.[9]

Liuson lives in Kirkland, a suburb of the Seattle area near the Microsoft campus in Redmond. She and her husband have a son.

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References edit

  1. ^ Foley, Mary Jo. "Microsoft shuffles its Cloud and Enterprise team, further melding software and cloud". ZDNet. Retrieved 2015-10-23.
  2. ^ Taft, Darryl K. "Microsoft Delivers Visual Studio 2015 Update 1". EWeek.com. EWeek. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  3. ^ a b Wang, Hsiao-wen. "Microsoft Changes Course". Commonwealth. Commonwealth Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-10-24. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
  4. ^ Liuson, Julia (2017-02-09). Join Us: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary. The Visual Studio Blog, 9 February 2017. Retrieved on 2017-03-05 from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/02/09/visual-studio-2017-launch-event-and-20th-anniversary/.
  5. ^ "CHIME Advisory Board". Microsoft Chime. Microsoft Chime Board.
  6. ^ Kohnstamm, Thomas (18 November 2015). "Microsoft announces innovations for all developers at Connect();". Microsoft News. Microsoft. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
  7. ^ "The Future of Software Development". Channel9 MSDN. Microsoft. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
  8. ^ Yu, Deng. "Young entrepreneurs get a lift in Seattle". Chinadaily. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  9. ^ "Microsoft Technet China 2013( translated from Chinese)". Microsoft. Retrieved 2013-10-01.

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