Julia Liuson
Julia Zhenglei Liuson | |
|---|---|
潘正磊 | |
| Born | 1970 |
| 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
[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.[4]
Career
[edit ]Liuson joined Microsoft right out of college 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]
Reception
[edit ]In 2019, Liuson was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.[5] In 2021 she was appointed to the Cadence Design Systems board of directors.[12]
Personal Life
[edit ]Liuson lives in Kirkland, a suburb of the Seattle area near the Microsoft campus in Redmond.[citation needed ] She and her husband have a son.[5]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Foley, Mary Jo. "Microsoft shuffles its Cloud and Enterprise team, further melding software and cloud". ZDNet. Retrieved 2015年10月23日.
- ^ Taft, Darryl K. "Microsoft Delivers Visual Studio 2015 Update 1". EWeek.com. EWeek. Retrieved 2015年11月30日.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ a b Wang, Hsiao-wen. "Microsoft Changes Course". Commonwealth. Commonwealth Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015年10月24日. Retrieved 2015年04月09日.
- ^ "ECEDHA Diversity Award". ece.uw.edu.
- ^ a b c "How the specter of irrelevancy helped Microsoft Corporate VP Julia Liuson drive massive change". GeekWire.
- ^ Liuson, Julia (2017年02月09日). "Join Us: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary". The Visual Studio Blog. Retrieved 2017年03月05日.
- ^ "CHIME Advisory Board". Microsoft Chime. Microsoft Chime Board.
- ^ Kohnstamm, Thomas (18 November 2015). "Microsoft announces innovations for all developers at Connect();". Microsoft News. Microsoft. Retrieved 2015年11月18日.
- ^ "The Future of Software Development". Channel9 MSDN. Microsoft. Retrieved 2015年11月18日.
- ^ Yu, Deng. "Young entrepreneurs get a lift in Seattle". Chinadaily. Retrieved 2014年04月07日.
- ^ "Microsoft Technet China 2013( translated from Chinese)". Microsoft. Retrieved 2013年10月01日.
- ^ MarketScreener (2020年12月01日). "Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Appoints Julia Liuson to Board of Directors - MarketScreener". www.marketscreener.com. Retrieved 2024年12月02日.