Sam Ford
Founding Partner And Chief Connection Officer at CREATE: Central Region Ecosystem for Arts, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
Bowling Green Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSam Ford is a founding partner and Chief Connection Officer at InnoEngine who turns stalled initiatives into repeatable innovation engines for organizations across sectors. With over a decade of hands-on experience and two decades of practice in innovation, audience engagement, cultural intelligence, and storytelling, he blends academic rigor from MIT with practical leadership at companies like Univision, Simon & Schuster, and Peppercomm. He is a prolific researcher and author—co‑author of the influential Spreadable Media—and has applied that scholarship to real-world projects for Microsoft, Coca‑Cola, WNYC and the U.S. State Department. Sam is also an active open-source contributor and Homebrew maintainer, improving package livecheck and streamlining server dependencies to shrink build size and boost reliability. Based in Bowling Green, KY, he pairs regional ecosystem building—through roles at AccelerateKY and the Metals Innovation Initiative—with a persistent curiosity that surfaces cultural patterns others overlook. The result is a practice that combines storytelling, systems thinking, and hands-on engineering to move ideas from concept to impact.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ohio County High SchoolSM Comparative Media Studies, SM Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.A. English (writing) news/editorial journalism communication studies mass comm film studies, B.A. English (writing) news/editorial journalism communication studies mass comm film studies at Western Kentucky University
English
Github Skills (33)
git10
develop10
package-management10
scripting10
static-site-generator10
testing10
homebrew-cask10
actix-web10
ruby10
homebrew10
hyper10
regular-expression10
script10
version-control10
management10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-drivers
May 2021 - Oct 2022
💀 Casks of Drivers (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 15 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the `homebrew-cask-drivers` repository by adding and modifying Casks, which define how software packages are installed and managed on macOS. Their work included adding livecheck functionality to automatically detect the latest versions of drivers and applications. They also updated existing Casks to reflect new versions, removed outdated livecheck strategies, and handled dependencies. Their contributions indicate a focus on maintaining the software package repository and ensuring the availability of drivers through Homebrew.
casksdriverscaskhomebrew
Homebrew/brew
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:498 reviews, 237 commits, 215 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the Homebrew/brew repository by implementing and modifying various aspects of the package manager, including the `livecheck` functionality. Their work involved adding features to the `livecheck` DSL, modifying existing strategies, enhancing test coverage, and improving documentation. The user also worked on fixing comparison issues related to versions and incorporating changes to improve security by skipping certain URLs.
brewpackage-managerlinuxrubymissing
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