Jeff Steward
Director Of Digital Infrastructure And Emerging Technology at What is Jeff baking?
Montpelier, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Steward is a director-level technology leader who has spent 13+ years designing and running digital infrastructure for major art museums, currently leading a 10-person team at the Harvard Art Museums. He builds systems that make cultural collections accessible—launching open APIs used by thousands, a public R&D Lightbox Gallery, and the museum’s first technology fellowship—while overseeing a ~$1M operating budget. His work bridges production infrastructure (collections databases, image pipelines, APIs) and experimental research in computer vision, data visualization, and interoperability, including a reference dataset of over 70 million AI-generated art descriptions. A trained artist and persistent tinkerer, he also prototypes playful web bots, game engines, and baking-fueled web projects that explore new modes of storytelling and audience engagement. Based in Vermont, he combines systems-based thinking with practical engineering and museum practice to advance sustainable, open cultural data. Not obvious from his title: he founded experimental institutions such as the Museum of the Modern Snowglobe and runs a long-running personal baking site that doubles as a software project.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Painting and Print Making, BA, Painting and Print Making at Temple University
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Github Skills (21)
iiif10
api-documentation10
api10
metadata7
django7
computer-vision7
python6
elasticsearch5
visualizations4
lightbox4
artificial-intelligence3
machine-vision3
analytics2
dashboard2
twitter2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jeffsteward/dm-scraper
Jan 2018 - Apr 2025
Song lyrics scraper
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 years 4 months
songpythonlyricssong-lyricsscraper
harvardartmuseums/data-grinder
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Processes an image through several computer vision services
Contributions:64 commits, 74 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years
computer-vision
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