Karen Payne
Self Employed
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKaren Payne is a Microsoft MVP with 12 years of recognition and nine years of professional software experience, blending contractor agility with deep enterprise knowledge across desktop, web, and mobile solutions. She has decades of public-sector experience building and teaching Microsoft .NET applications, having led personal income tax desktop systems and later shifted to outward-facing web platforms and developer training. Comfortable in team environments and as a self-employed contractor, she selects tools pragmatically to fit the task and writes code samples and articles for Microsoft. Currently focused on applied AI, she pairs practical delivery skills with a passion for teaching business-driven technology solutions—and away from the keyboard she’s an avid sports car driver based in Oregon.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Montgomery County Community College
Stackoverflow
4,747reputation
322kreached
464answers
2questions
winforms
top-5%
Github Skills (120)
winforms10
fsharp10
dotnet10
windows-forms10
visual-studio-extension10
entity10
scripting10
dbcontext10
entity-framework-core10
csharp10
vsix10
uwp10
dotnet-core10
efcore9
visual-studio-for-mac9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
karenpayneoregon/forum-questions
Dec 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:101 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 3 months
karenpayneoregon/sql-basics
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:199 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
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