Shep Shapard
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShep Shapard is a seasoned software engineer based in Seattle with nearly 18 years in software development and a deep specialty in Android engineering, including extensive tenures at Google and Verily. He has driven full‑lifecycle mobile products—from founding and shipping his own Android apps at AreSimple to leading Android architecture and teams at Homesnap and USA TODAY. At Google and in open source he’s contributed targeted, reliability-focused fixes to core Android components like RecyclerView, demonstrating attention to edge cases and long-lived platform behavior. Comfortable across client and server stacks, he blends hands‑on coding, release management, and product-minded design. Outside of code he writes, produces, and performs music, bringing a creative perspective to engineering problems.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Computer Science, Certificate Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBachelors Sociology, Bachelors Sociology at University of Mary Washington
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
javas10
recyclerview10
android-recyclerview10
android10
java10
testing9
android-sdk9
dart6
dom6
android-widget6
android-viewpager6
android-fragments6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_support
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
Role in this project:
Android Mobile Developer
Android Mobile DeveloperContributions:424 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Shep made several commits related to the RecyclerView library within the AOSP project. The primary focus of these commits revolves around fixing bugs and addressing issues related to the behavior of the RecyclerView, specifically in scenarios involving item additions, removals, and scrolling. The user also made contributions that optimized and refined various aspects of the RecyclerView and related classes, and ensured expected behavior of those classes in various scenarios.
androidx/androidx
May 2019 - Mar 2021
Development environment for Android Jetpack extension libraries under the androidx namespace. Synchronized with Android Jetpack's primary development branch on AOSP.
Contributions:222 commits in 1 year 9 months
jetpack-composejetpack-androidsynchronizednamespaceandroid
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