John Ashenden
Co-Founder at Yotobi Mezcal
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Ashenden is a design-led founder and product strategist with 13+ years shaping digital experiences and brands for startups and enterprises from Grooveshark to Mesosphere. He combines hands-on UX/UI craft with team leadership—having built and led design organizations that delivered consumer-scale products and complex enterprise platforms used by companies like Uber, JPMorgan Chase, and Verizon. John’s work spans brand, product, and service design, and he’s repeatedly translated thorny technical problems into elegant, usable interfaces (notably helping define the UX for Mesosphere’s DC/OS). As a serial founder and adviser he also launches consumer ventures such as Yotobi Mezcal while mentoring startups through First Round Fast Track. Based in San Francisco, he pairs a software engineering background with a designer’s sensibility, making him fluent at the intersection of product, engineering, and business. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic creative who favors simplicity and design thinking to drive market-defining outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Software Engineering, BSE Software Engineering at University of Florida
Stackoverflow
23reputation
4kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (29)
hugo10
mesosphere10
python10
universe10
effort10
dcos10
package10
interaction10
operating-system10
javascript9
user-interface9
canvas9
package-repository9
consistency9
react9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ashenden/canvas
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:158 commits, 1 PR, 132 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dcos/dcos-website
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
Source for the official DC/OS website
Contributions:266 commits, 153 PRs, 235 pushes in 1 year 10 months
dcos-testing-guildhugodcos
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