Summary
Paula Scholz is a senior Windows-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building native Windows applications, controls, and tooling for Microsoft and enterprise customers. Currently on the Windows Servicing and Delivery team at Microsoft, she has a track record of shipping demos and samples for major events, enabling OEM partners, and modernizing legacy systems via WPF, UWP, and interop technologies. Her background spans performance engineering, ETW-based telemetry, installer systems, and test automation, reflecting deep platform-level knowledge rather than web stacks. She contributes code on GitHub, enjoys chess, and brings a pragmatic attention to user-facing UX and reliability that has supported products deployed on billions of machines.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
2nd Lieutenant, US Army, Chemical Corps, 2nd Lieutenant, US Army, Chemical Corps at US Army Officer Candidate School