Summary
Patrick Cushing is the founder of WorkHands and a product-minded operator with a decade of experience building tools to simplify apprenticeship and workforce development. Trained in biomedical engineering at Columbia and sharpened as a developer at Dev Bootcamp, he blends technical fluency with product leadership honed managing mobile and support teams at SigFig and Wikinvest. His early public-sector work streamlining small business interactions with New York City informs a pragmatic, policy-aware approach to marketplace design. Based in San Francisco, he combines startup grit with hands-on delivery, focusing on making credentialing and on-the-job learning easier to access and manage. An uncommon thread in his background is the mix of HR systems, creative content strategy, and direct technical training—useful when translating employer needs into usable apprenticeship platforms.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
St. John's Prep
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, B.S., Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York
Ruby, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and more, Ruby, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and more at Dev Bootcamp