Summary
David Shellabarger is a Senior Android Engineer with 15 years of mobile and web development experience and over a decade building native apps for Android and iOS. He currently drives Android engineering at Kaiser Permanente and has founded Nightshade Labs, a boutique studio focused on polished Android experiences. His background spans enterprise fintech and healthcare to consumer apps, with hands-on expertise in native UI, performance, analytics, BLE/iBeacons, and complex e-commerce integrations. A practical problem solver, he has led teams building custom CRMs and migrated web experiences to native apps, showing both product sense and implementation depth. Based in Ringgold, Georgia, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with long-term platform experience, often advocating for native-first solutions that improve UX and reliability.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Bachelors at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga