Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft's developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role.

Liuson is part of Microsoft's CoreAI division, introduced by CEO Satya Nadella in January 2025 and headed by EVP Jay Parikh, former head of engineering at Meta, who joined the company in October 2024. Liuson also assumed responsibility for GitHub when its CEO Thomas Dohmke stepped down in August 2025, at which time GitHub became part of CoreAI.

According to The Verge, Liuson said in an internal memo: "I've been thinking about this for a while, and in January I shared with Satya and Jay that the timing feels right for me to take this step."

The Register has asked Microsoft to comment.

Liuson started at Microsoft after graduating in 1992, according to a company bio. She is credited with "leading the effort to ...