Julia Liuson

Julia is the CVP, Developer Division at Microsoft. In this capacity, she 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. Her goal is to help all developers (all platforms and all languages) be successful with tools which enable innovative scenarios. Julia joined Microsoft in 1992, initially 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 roles within the organization, including Partner Product Unit Manager for Visual Basic; GM, Visual Studio Business Applications; and GM, Server and Tools Business. She holds a BSEE from the University of Washington.