Julia Liuson
Julia Zhenglei Liuson is a Chinese-born American technology executive. She has been serving as the president of the Developer Division at Microsoft since November 2021.
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.
Early life and education
Zhenglei Pan was born in Shanghai, China in 1970.In 1991, Liuson received a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Washington.
Career
Liuson joined Microsoft right out of college in 1992. Her initial role was as a developer first on the Access team, and later on Visual InterDev, the precursor to Visual Studio. She has held a variety of technical and management positions at Microsoft, serving as development manager, and later as partner product unit manager for Visual Basic. Liuson 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.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. She presented keynote speeches and guest speakers in some business and technology events including Connect 2015, China Business Challenge 2014, and Technet 2013 for China.