Rick Payne
Minecraft Marketplace Services Managed Service Lead at Microsoft
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Payne is a seasoned software architect and engineering lead with over a decade of hands-on experience building production systems, currently leading Minecraft Marketplace managed services at Microsoft. He excels at designing scalable backend platforms and SQL-driven infrastructure, having shepherded PAAS REST services, data warehouses, and metadata-driven analytics early in his career. An entrepreneurially minded technologist, he founded an AR startup that demonstrated a multiplayer HoloLens prototype at GenCon, blending systems engineering with immersive experiences. Rick combines deep data and backend expertise with practical operational ownership, often acting as backup DBA and driving lean data access patterns to meet high scalability needs. Based in Cincinnati, he pairs an EE degree from Ohio State with a pragmatic, product-focused approach to delivering reliable services at scale.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering with Computer Specialization, BS Electrical Engineering with Computer Specialization at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (41)
linux9
operating-system9
binding8
history8
bash7
gleam7
tcp7
ffi7
shell7
rust6
erlang-nif6
xen6
zsh6
lua6
erlang6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rickpayne/osv
Aug 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
operating-systemoperatinglinuxosv
OtoloNetworks/otp
Dec 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 5 months
erlang-otperlangelixirotp
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