Chris Payne
Co-Founder at OrgFlow
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Payne is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder based in Newcastle upon Tyne with 11 years of experience building backend systems and delivering product-focused engineering. He co-founded OrgFlow in 2020 after a career spanning roles from the NHS and Parkdean Resorts to senior engineering at Bede Gaming and work as a Salesforce consultant, bringing both product and integration expertise. A hands-on contributor to the well-regarded Orchard Core open-source CMS, he has improved core Flows and Liquid modules—adding shapes, better error handling, query filters and templating features—demonstrating a knack for making complex content platforms more extensible. Comfortable shipping production systems and developer-facing features, he blends startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Northumbria University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
modularity10
liquid10
cms10
asp-net-core10
orchard-core10
modular10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
deploying8
sql-server6
razor6
asp-net-mvc6
specflow6
jquery6
sql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
OrchardCMS/OrchardCore
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Orchard Core is an open-source modular and multi-tenant application framework built with ASP.NET Core, and a content management system (CMS) built on top of that framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 44 PRs, 50 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the back-end logic and functionality of the Orchard Core CMS, specifically focusing on the Flows and Liquid modules. Their work involved adding new shapes, improving Liquid syntax error handling, enhancing the query filter, and introducing a content property within Liquid templates. Additionally, they implemented features related to deployment and role export.
cmstenantwcfc-sharporchard-core
OrgFlow-Actions/setup
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
An action that installs and configures OrgFlow CLI and lets you build your Salesforce DevOps pipeline and manage your deployments from GitHub.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 8 months
orgflowpipelinedevopsci-cdsalesforce
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