Patrick Hughes

Resume

Fourteen years, three tracks, one pattern. I've been building and teaching in parallel since I was fifteen — and the two finally became the same job. The three-track timeline is on the front page.

This page is the resume. If you need a PDF, press ⌘P — it's designed for it.

The numbers I own

83
launch-ready appsSupported through Base App GA.
51,654
Quickstart viewsThe docs path I rebuilt.
<10 min
time to first valueDown from more than 20.
50+
customer integrationsAPI solution design at Coinbase.

Roles

  1. 2026–now

    Vercel

    Solutions Architect, Field Engineering

    Helping companies ship faster than they thought they could.

  2. 2024–2026

    Base — Coinbase

    Sr. Developer Advocate

    Turned one-off developer support into systems that scaled past me.

  3. 2022–2024

    Coinbase

    Sr. Solutions Architect

    Designed API integrations for 50+ customers, then turned the repeats into tooling.

  4. 2019–2022

    Google

    Solution Engineer

    Enterprise discovery, and the discovery that a clickable prototype beats a deck.

  5. 2018–2019

    Google

    Cloud Technical Resident

    Three rotations: support, technical account management, sales engineering.

  6. 2017

    Carbon Black

    Analytics Intern

    Dashboards and ETL. Where I learned the chart is the argument.

On Google: I contributed to engagements tied to more than $300M in pipeline. I want to be precise about that — I was one technical person on large teams. What I personally owned were the prototypes, the workshops, and the discovery conversations.

Friction in, systems out

Every job I've had has been the same job wearing a different badge: find where people keep getting stuck, fix it once, then make the fix reusable.

  1. Friction

    Builders needed 20+ minutes to get a Mini App running

    Built

    Rebuilt the Quickstart path

    Under 10 minutes · 51,654 views

    20+ → <10 min

    Base, 2025

  2. Friction

    The same Commerce integration, hand-written 50+ times

    Built

    Commerce and Pay SDKs and CLIs

    Reusable instead of bespoke

    50+ customers

    Coinbase, 2022–24

  3. Friction

    An insurance exec couldn't picture the future state

    Built

    Clickable Figma prototypes

    Aligned the room, advanced the deal

    $40M

    Google, 2019–22

  4. Friction

    83 Mini Apps weren't ready for Base App GA

    Built

    Workshops, office hours, launch support

    All 83 reached launch-ready

    83 apps

    Base, 2025–26

  5. Friction

    Google's field couldn't demo fraud detection

    Built

    Built the demo, then trained the field on it

    Drove customer demand after the training

    400+ SEs · 4.3/5

    Google, 2018–19

  6. Friction

    The same question in Discord every single week

    Built

    10+ tutorials, 17 videos, feedback playbooks

    Support became self-serve

    15+ more assets

    Base, 2024–26

  7. Friction

    University staff couldn't use their own CMS

    Built

    Training videos, and a YouTube channel to host them

    Self-serve. In 2016.

    100+ sites

    Stony Brook, 2016–18

  8. Friction

    Teenagers had nobody to hear it from

    Built

    30+ workshops across New York City

    I wrote the scripts too

    I was 15

    Teens P.A.C.T., 2012–14

Numbers are mine where I owned the work. Where I contributed to something bigger, I say contributed.

Also running

  • BAG Ventures

    2022–now

    Limited partner and angel investor. Early-stage, mostly AI and infrastructure.

  • atxworkshops.com

    Founded June 2026

    Small-group workshops in Austin. Deliberately boring architecture — Stripe is the source of truth, and I can tell you exactly when that stops being a good idea.

  • blackbitcoiner.com

    Founded September 2026

    Built to help Black folks build wealth through bitcoin accumulation.

Stony Brook University

B.S. Information Systems Engineering, concentration in Business & Economics. 2018.

Educational Opportunity Program — first as a student, then as a success coach in my final semester. Resident Assistant. Web developer for Communications & Marketing, two years. Operations assistant at the Student Activities Center. Teaching assistant for ISE 312: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing. Programming chair, then Vice President, National Society of Black Engineers. Vice President, NAACP chapter.

Certifications, earned

  • Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer2020
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect2019
  • Microsoft Data Science Essentials2018

Dated on purpose. Google Cloud certifications expire after two years and I haven't renewed these — but I sat for them, and the years tell you when.