Julia Liuson
Chinese American technology executive
Julia Zhenglei Liuson (born Zhenglei Pan; Chinese: 潘正磊; pinyin: Pān Zhènglěi; born 1970) is a Chinese-born American technology executive. She served as the president of the Developer Division at Microsoft from November 2021 until June 2026, when she retired after 34 years with the company.
During her tenure, Liuson oversaw 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.
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