Shawn Kendrot
Senior Software Engineer at PAR Government
Windsor, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Kendrot is a Senior Software Engineer based in Windsor, Colorado with 14 years of experience building desktop and embedded .NET applications and leading technical teams. Currently at PAR Government, he brings deep WinUI/UWP expertise demonstrated by meaningful contributions to prominent open-source projects like Microsoft XamlBehaviors and the Windows Community Toolkit, where he improved framework robustness and implemented complex controls such as MasterDetailsView. His background spans aerospace and industrial automation at Airbus Defence and Space and Schneider Electric, combining hands-on C#/XAML development with technical leadership. A former U.S. Marine Corps squad leader and volunteer fire captain, Shawn pairs disciplined, mission-focused problem solving with a pragmatic approach to software design. He is particularly skilled at refactoring legacy code and improving developer experience through clearer APIs and defensive error handling.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of Northern Colorado
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xaml10
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windows-phone10
winui10
ui-design10
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silverlight9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/XamlBehaviors
Nov 2015 - Nov 2018
This is the official home for WinUI/UWP XAML Behaviors on GitHub.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Shawn focused on refactoring and improving the base behavior classes within the XAML Behaviors SDK. They modified the `Behavior` and `BehaviorOfT` classes, making methods virtual, modifying access modifiers, and adding exception handling. Key changes involved introducing null checks and providing informative error messages within the `OnAttached` method. These adjustments aimed to enhance the framework's robustness and developer experience.
behaviorsxamluwpuwp-applicationsuwp-apps
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Oct 2016 - May 2020
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 549 commits, 131 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Shawn primarily contributed to implementing the "MasterDetailsView" control, which follows the Master/Details pattern. They focused on creating the control, adding features such as header content and back button behavior, and adjusting layouts based on horizontal and vertical orientations. They also modified existing code, including updates to file headers and code commenting, as well as using nameof instead of strings for dependency properties, indicating a strong understanding of C# and XAML, essential in UWP and WinUI3 development.
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