Summary
Samuel Bowler is a mission-driven technology leader and founder with a decade of experience building shared digital infrastructure that connects State and Local Arts Agencies, artists, and cultural organizations. As Director and founder of Culturalyst, he has moved an early prototype to product-market fit while forging sustainable partnerships across the public arts sector and scaling a national community of agency leaders. His background spans hands-on product and team leadership—from leading a 14-person engineering team at GE to teaching coding to high school students—giving him a rare mix of technical execution, education, and nonprofit experience. Based in New Orleans, he pairs civic-minded strategy with startup rigor and a knack for translating siloed legacy processes into collaborative, long-lived platforms.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Hack Reactor
Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government (Honors), Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government (Honors) at Duke University