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Gabriel J. Aul | |
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 Gabriel J. Aul in 2017 | |
| Born | Gabriel J. Aul (1972-08-05)5 August 1972 (age 52) Aspen, Colorado |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | CorporateVice President of WDG, Engineering Systems team atMicrosoft (2015-2019) Vice President ofOculus atMeta (2019-present) |
| Employer(s) | Microsoft (1992-2019) Meta (2019-present) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth "Liz" Aul (m) |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | https://www.facebook.com |
Gabriel J. "Gabe" Aul,[1] (born August 5, 1972) is theVice President ofOculus[2] atMeta. He was previously the CorporateVice President (CVP) of Windows & Devices Group (WDG), Engineering Systems (1ES) team atMicrosoft. He was appointed as VP on 31 July 2015, following the launch ofWindows 10 on 29 July 2015. He led theWindows Insider Program until June 1, 2016, where he was succeeded byDona Sarkar.[3]
Aul started Microsoft's Security Response team forInternet Explorer in 1996. Aul was later part of a team that started Microsoft's Sustained Engineering group inWindows, responsible for deliveringhotfixes andservice packs to customers.
Aul led the effort to buildMicrosoft's first producttelemetry systems. Before then,Microsoft had no idea about how many problems were occurring on customer systems, nor were they able to debug them. Aul led part of the team creating the technologies to allow upload of crash, hang, and other failure data (Windows Error Reporting) as well asMicrosoft's anonymous data collection system for usage data (Customer Experience Improvement Program.) Aul won several engineering awards, patents, and published a paper[4] based on this work.
AfterWindows Vista, Aul started the Program Management team working on Performance for Windows, with Michael Fortin who led the Development team. Aul and his team spent 3 years working on Windows 7, the first edition of Windows ever that used less resources (memory, CPU, disk) than its predecessor.
Aul was promoted to Director and expanded his team to include reliability and security, and for Windows 8 they bested Windows 7 on those dimensions.
For Windows 10; Aul was running an even further expanded team (addingData Science to his other “Fundamentals” role) and was able to lead the effort to enableFlighting and Feedback forMicrosoft's "Windows as aService" strategy. As part of that, Aul started theWindows Insider Program and got to be the face of the effort for a while.
Gabriel stepped down from his role of running theWindows Insider Program on 1 June 2016, citing that he couldn't "give 100%" to both the Insider Program and his other job on the Engineering Systems Team at once.[3]
On September 8, 2017, Gabriel Aul celebrated his 25th anniversary working atMicrosoft.[5]
In 2019, Gabe Aul has leftMicrosoft forFacebook's[6]Oculus[2] team.
