John Montgomery

John is Corporate Vice President of Program Management for Developer Tools and Services at Microsoft. He is responsible for product design and customer success for all of Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, .NET, C#, C++, F#, VB, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, Engineering Systems, User Experience Design, Customer Research, Windows tooling, and Azure tooling. John has been at Microsoft for 17 years, working in developer technologies for his entire career. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was the West Coast Bureau Chief for Byte, and before that was the CIO of Imagine Publishing. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Harvard in Russian Language and Literature.