Julia Liuson is Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division, overseeing software development for Visual Studio and .NET framework, including CLR, .NET x-plat effort, all programming languages, user interface, mobile and cloud development tools.

Liuson joined Microsoft in 1992, and has held a variety of technical and management positions while at Microsoft. She was General Manager of Visual Studio Business Applications where she was responsible for enabling developers to easily build applications on Microsoft client, server and service platforms.

Liuson has also served as General Manager for Server and Tools business from MS Shanghai office in China for two years while running engineering teams on both sides of the Pacific.

Previously, Liuson has served as development manager, and later as Partner Product Unit Manager for Visual Basic. She was also a core member of the leadership team that led the successful development and launch of Visual Studio Team System in 2005.

Liuson received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington