Julia Liuson promoted to President of the Microsoft Developer Division, which now
includes GitHub

The mission of the Microsoft Developer Division is to earn the trust and love of developers across
all languages and platforms and make them successful as they build the applications of the
future. DevDiv today includes our developer tools and services including Visual Studio, Visual
Studio Code, NET and C#, TypeScript, and the OpenJDK. Our Azure Developer SDKs, as well
as our Azure Application Development PaS and Serverless offerings (including our Azure App
Services, Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Dapr, Redis Cache, Spring Cloud services,
etc.) are also part of this organization.

I'm very pleased to announce the promotion of Julia Liuson to President, Microsoft Developer
Division. As part of today's changes, Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, will report to Julia going
forward, as will Julia's existing DevDiv reports.

Julia has been instrumental in Microsoft's adoption of open source, and in the transformation of
Microsoft's developer strategy. As the leader of DevDiv, she helped guide the open sourcing of
-NET (which now runs on every major OS platform), as well as the creation and open sourcing of
Visual Studio Code (now the most popular development tool in the world). She initiated our deep
engagement with the Python community, including hiring Python creator Guido van Rossum to
Microsoft, and her team now delivers the most widely used Python developer tooling in the world
(with VS and VS Code) as well as delivers runtime performance for the broader Python
community. She started the OpenJDK effort at Microsoft, which is now used broadly to run Java
workloads on Azure. And over the last 9 months she has led our Azure Application Developer
PaS and Serverless offerings and has helped drive to make these services great for developers
using all languages, tools, and platforms.

Under Julia's leadership, the Developer Division team has undergone a significant cultural
transformation and is guided by consistent cultural values: diversity & inclusion, customer
obsession, data-driven, and quality-driven. The pervasiveness of these culture attributes is
evident through the success of products like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, which have
experienced more than 16x usage growth since 2014 (and are now used by the majority of
developers in the world).

I deeply admire how committed Julia is to team culture, mentorship, and how she helps generate
opportunities for others to succeed. She is an avid supporter of MakeCode (which is also built by
her team) as an investment to help kids learn programming and pursue computer science in earty
education. Julia was one of the first women at Microsoft to be promoted to Corporate Vice
President of Engineering leading development teams at Microsoft, and she is a mentor and
sponsor to women and men across Microsoft today. She received the Asian American Executive
of the Year award in 2013 and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of
Fame in 2019.

Please join me in thanking Julia for the outstanding leadership she provides, and in congratulating
her on the well-deserved promotion and expanded remit.