Rob Ashcom
Faculty Lecturer at San José State University
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolRob Ashcom is a User Experience and Product Design leader with 11 years of experience crafting developer and admin tools, currently teaching as a Faculty Lecturer in San José State University's Computer Science Department. He has led UX teams and end-to-end product work at companies from startups to Couchbase, where he prototyped and shipped an AI assistant for SQL++ query writing and rebuilt on-prem database UIs with a pragmatic Material-influenced design system. Rob pairs hands-on design, front-end coding, and quantitative research—often stepping into marketing, documentation, and cross-vertical coordination—to ensure consistent, test-driven experiences. His background spans HCI, creative writing, and music production, which surfaces in clear technical storytelling and an unusual ability to translate complex data tools into approachable user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MS Human Computer Interaction, MS Human Computer Interaction at Iowa State UniversityBM Music Production & Engineering, BM Music Production & Engineering at Berklee College of MusicMA Creative Writing, MA Creative Writing at Sonoma State University
Github Skills (13)
h210
citrix10
couchbase10
server10
database9
react6
antora5
asciidoc4
couchdb4
eventing3
documentation3
file-format2
json1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
robashcom/cbui
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Couchbase UI
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
reactcouchbase
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