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Julia Zhenglei Liuson
潘正磊
Born 1970Shanghai, China
Occupation President of the Developer Division
Organization(s) Microsoft GitHub

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]

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]

Early life and education

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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.[4]

Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992.[5] Her initial role was as a developer first on the Access team, and later on Visual InterDev, the precursor to Visual Studio.[6] 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.[7]

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] She presented keynote speeches and guest speakers in some business and technology events including Connect() 2015,[8][9] China Business Challenge 2014,[10] and Technet 2013 for China.[11]

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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  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. ^ "ECEDHA Diversity Award". ece.uw.edu.
  5. ^ "How the specter of irrelevancy helped Microsoft Corporate VP Julia Liuson drive massive change". GeekWire.
  6. ^ Liuson, Julia (2017-02-09). "Join Us: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary". The Visual Studio Blog. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
  7. ^ "CHIME Advisory Board". Microsoft Chime. Microsoft Chime Board.
  8. ^ Kohnstamm, Thomas (18 November 2015). "Microsoft announces innovations for all developers at Connect();". Microsoft News. Microsoft. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
  9. ^ "The Future of Software Development". Channel9 MSDN. Microsoft. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
  10. ^ Yu, Deng. "Young entrepreneurs get a lift in Seattle". Chinadaily. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  11. ^ "Microsoft Technet China 2013( translated from Chinese)". Microsoft. Retrieved 2013-10-01.