PORTLAND, Maine—Sean Sullivan knows a lot about beer. He can easily rattle off a long list of the best breweries in Portland, Maine, but he can also walk you through the malting process that prepares barley for brewing.
It certainly helps that for the last decade Sullivan has served as the executive director of the Maine Brewers’ Guild. As the voice for the Pine Tree State’s burgeoning brewery business, Sullivan has helped lead the charge for a new form of economic and cultural growth in Maine.
But now Sullivan is leaving it all behind for something completely different: computer science.
Sullivan recently stepped down from his role at the guild to pursue a computer science master’s degree at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland.
“I love the industry, and I love what the industry has done for Maine,” Sullivan…
