Shane Church

About Me

I am a UX-focused senior software engineer and architect with more than 25 years of experience building web, mobile, and desktop applications. At Vermeer, I build mobile apps that control and interact with automated and autonomous machinery, mentor a team of developers, and led the company's move from on-premises source control and CI/CD to GitHub. Earlier roles at Stine Seed, Nationwide, EffectiveUI, and others spanned full-stack development, UX leadership, and offshore team management. I also serve as a Director At-Large for dsmHack, the charity hackathon that helps Des Moines-area non-profits solve technology problems, and I maintain open-source projects such as a Lego Boost MoveHub remote and the Fully Feedly browser extension.

I live in the Des Moines area with my wife, Andrea, and our three sons, Ethan, Colin, and Owen. I enjoy bicycling, baseball (Go Rockies!), watching CU Buffs athletics, and playing Lego with the boys, and I love to travel whenever the opportunity presents itself.

What I Do

I am a UX-focused software engineer and architect specializing in TypeScript/JavaScript, C#/.NET, and mobile applications, with a growing focus on AI-assisted development.

AI-assisted software engineering
Vue.js and Angular
JavaScript and TypeScript
C# and .NET / ASP.NET Core
HTML5 and CSS3
Node.js
Mobile applications
CI/CD and GitHub Actions
SQL (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server)
User experience design and prototyping
Team leadership and mentoring
and much more...

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Photos

The final 2026 competition show for @rooseveltbands at the Waukee Marching Invitational and @ethanlovechurch's final HS marching competition. 🥲 I'm so proud of him and all of the kids in this group. First place with a score of 83.25! 🥇 #bleedblue #rollforinitiative #riderexcellence

Oct 18, 2026 11:19 PM

Going out champions! The @rooseveltbands class of 2027 claims first place in the final competition of the season at the Waukee Marching Invitational! 🥇💙 #bleedblue #riderexcellence #rollforinitiative

Oct 18, 2026 1:22 AM

@rooseveltbands at the IHSMA State Marching Festival in Waukee today! #bleedblue #riderexcellence #rollforinitiative

Oct 17, 2026 7:53 PM

Roosevelt Homecoming 2026

Oct 10, 2026 8:31 PM

@rooseveltbands Roll for Initiative at Valleyfest today! Getting better every time out! #rollforinitiative #riderexcellence #bleedblue

Oct 10, 2026 3:59 PM

Homecoming game fun with @ethanlovechurch, @krochon_14, @rooseveltbands, and @dsmveltfootball tonight. #homecoming2026 #bleedblue #riderexcellence

Oct 9, 2026 11:21 PM

A homecoming Roll for Initiative with @rooseveltbands! #rollforinitiative #bleedblue #riderexcellence

Oct 9, 2026 10:55 PM

@rooseveltbands and @trhsdanceteam with the Merrill, Callanan, and Cowles 8th grade bands perform "Where's My Husband" by Raye for their annual homecoming collaboration tonight! #wheresmyhusband #bleedblue #riderexcellence

Oct 9, 2026 10:48 PM

Homecoming community night at Roosevelt tonight!

Oct 8, 2026 10:03 PM

@rooseveltbands Roll for Initiative tonight at the North Polk Marching Invitational! Getting better every time! #riderexcellence #bleedblue #rollforinitiative

Oct 3, 2026 11:43 PM

Rolling for Initiative with @rooseveltbands at the @dsmveltfootball game tonight! #rollforinitiative #bleedblue #riderexcellence

Oct 1, 2026 10:53 PM

Friends who marched BK back in the day, the planning is starting for a 70th anniversary alumni corps like Phantom! 💙 Link in the comments below.

Sep 30, 2026 1:09 PM

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Projects

Fully Feedly

Read your RSS feed at the speed of light!

FullyFeedly shows the full content articles in Feedly.com, the famous RSS feed reader, even when the feed only contains a summary.

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Lego MoveHub Remote

Drive a Lego Boost robot from your browser.

A remote control for the Lego Boost MoveHub and an exploration of the Boost/Powered Up Bluetooth platform, written in TypeScript. I demoed it at DSMJS in January 2019.

Read about the talk

Star Fork

My Dinner Delights

A website for my wife, a personal chef in Des Moines, Iowa.

A static Nuxt site with content managed in the Storyblok headless CMS and deployed on Netlify, so she can update menus and pages without touching code.

Visit mydinnerdelights.com

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Older Projects

Windows Phone apps including What I Eat, Stirling Birthday, and Stirling Money, plus earlier work.

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Resume

Experience

June 2019
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Present
Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Systems
Vermeer - Pella, IA
- Played a key role in the development of mobile applications to control and interact with automated and autonomous machinery.
- Guided and mentored junior developers on topics including AI debugging and best practices.
- Supervised and mentored a team of 4 developers.
- Lead a migration from on-premises source control and CI/CD to GitHub including building documentation and reusable workflows to facilitate the transition for other teams.
- Served as the go-to resource for any multi-system debugging issue.
- Worked as a full-stack developer designing and developing applications supporting business operations at Vermeer manufacturing using technologies including Vue.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, .NET Core, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
Jan 2025
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Present
Director At-Large
dsmHack - Des Moines, IA
- Director at-large for dsmHack helping in organizing the annual charity hackathon helping Des Moines-area non-profits solve their technology problems because technology should never be a barrier to doing good.
February 2017
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March 2019
Senior Software Engineer
Stine Seed - Dallas Center, IA
- Worked as a full-stack developer on a small team designing and developing applications in support of the research and sales operations at Stine Seed using technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular 6, D3.js, Webpack, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core and SQL Server.
- Served as the lead UX expert, designing and implementing UI in consultation with end users.

Earlier experience (11 more)

April 2016
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Dec 2016
Creative Technologist
Nationwide Insurance - Des Moines, IA
- Worked as a contractor on the user experience (UX) team at Nationwide Insurance designing and developing high fidelity UI prototypes for multiple business units using technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Node.js, Angular.js.
- Served as the UX Lead on additional projects, managing project scope, timelines, and deliverables for the UX team in addition to being responsible for development related deliverables.
July 2015
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Feb 2016
Development Supervisor
Two Rivers Marketing - Des Moines, IA
- Managed team of 2 developers and a project manager providing technical guidance and mentoring.
- Served as the primary technical point of contact for clients and internal account teams for all phases of development from sales through implementation.
- Managed the technical communications and relationship with the agency’s development outsourcing partners.
- Developed numerous engaging animations and applications for clients using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, ReactJS, and Node.js.
- Established standardized development processes and workflows using Git, Node.js, and Grunt.js.
Aug 2014
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June 2015
Senior Software Engineer
ShopAtHome.com - Greenwood Village, CO
- Developed browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Backbone.js, Handlebars, RequireJS, Lodash, and jQuery.
- Developed back end services to support the browser extensions in C#, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET WebAPI.
Jan 2003
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Present
Owner/Developer
s-church.net - Lakewood, CO/Pleasant Hill, IA
- Designed and implemented a series of free and commercial Windows Phone applications using C# and XAML. All apps are localized into 38 languages supported in the Windows Phone Store and have more than 200,000 combined downloads.
- https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/store/publishers?publisherId=Shane%2BChurch
- Two of the above apps, Stirling Birthday and What I Eat, are featured 2-4 times weekly in at least one worldwide market in the Windows Phone Store beginning in September 2013 through the present.
- Weather Info 2005 for Windows Mobile named “Program of the Day” by Telefonica.net on January 12, 2006
- Weather Info 2.4 for Pocket PC named “Freeware of the Day” by PocketPCTools.com on August 11, 2004
Sep 2010
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July 2014
Technical Lead
EffectiveUI - Denver, CO
- Lead a team of 5 developers in building and architecting a system for National Oilwell Varco to visualize and edit oil well designs in 2D and 3D in HTML5 canvas using AngularJS, Twitter Bootstrap, KineticJS, ThreeJS, ng-grid, and Bing Maps, and Node.js. Also managed development resources in Ukraine and QA resources in India for this project.
- Lead a team of 4 developers in building and architecting a system for the El Paso County (CO) Assessor’s Office to value oil and gas drilling operations for tax purposes using ASP.NET MVC 4, .NET 4.5, C#, jQuery, KnockoutJS, and Entity Framework 5.0.
- Developed a mobile technology demonstration prototype running on Android, and iOS for Cartegraph using ASP.NET MVC 3, .NET 4.0, C#, jQuery, jQuery Mobile demonstrating the integration of mobile web with native device functionality. This prototype was the source of the MSDN Magazine article in March 2012.
- Developed, architected, and assisted in the sales process on a number of projects involving HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Twitter Bootstrap, ASP.NET (MVC, WebAPI), C#, WCF, SQL Server, Node.js, and numerous other Web development tools.
- Worked with and managed offshore resources in India, Ukraine, and Ethiopia on various projects.
May 2008
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July 2010
Senior Software Engineer
CNSI - Lakewood, CO
- Proposed, designed, and developed an online tool for Mine Rescue Teams, including a custom ASP.NET Google Maps server control, to allow emergency responders to get all of the relevant information about and directions to a mine emergency. The site uses the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit, ASP.NET 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation, Google Maps, Google Local Search, and Oracle.
- Developed and maintained .NET systems for the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the US Department of Labor, including the public facing EGov portal using Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5, SOAP Web Services, C#, and Oracle.
Sep 2006
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May 2008
Systems Architect
Fujitsu Consulting - Greenwood Village, CO
- Developed the Prepaid Administration System user interface using C#, ASP.NET 2.0 and SOAP Web Services for the prepaid credit card group at Visa, Inc.
- Diagnosed and corrected production application issues for prepaid credit card services at Visa, Inc.
Aug 2005
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Aug 2006
Senior Software Engineer
TimeCentre - Westminster, CO
- Designed and implemented Time Clock Server using C#, .NET Framework 2.0, ASP.NET, and SQL Server
- Designed and implemented a Pocket PC Time Clock application using C#, .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and SOAP Web Services
Feb 1998
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Aug 2005
Sr. Systems Analyst/Programmer
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site - Golden, CO
- Designed and implemented a number of web, desktop and mobile applications to facilitate sample tracking and environmental cleanup using ASP.NET, .NET Windows Forms, C#, Oracle, SQL Server, XAML, XML, and Palm OS.
Feb 2008
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Aug 2009
Church Councilman
Holy Shepherd Lutheran Church - Lakewood, CO
- Elected council member and chairman of the Planning and Staffing committee in charge of with managing the human resources and planning needs for a staff of five full-time and seven part-time employees with a combined payroll in excess of $300,000.
June 2005
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Feb 2008
Board of Directors
Denver Turnverein - Denver, CO
- Elected member of the Board of Directors of 501(c)7 non-profit with a budget of over $200,000 involved in decision making regarding revenue, marketing, tax status, and operation.