Kenneth Seals-nutt
Associate Director, Software Engineering
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Seals-Nutt is an associate director of software engineering and tech entrepreneur with nine years of experience building high-growth product teams and research-grade software across industry and academia. He leads AI-powered conversational commerce work while co-founding Science Stories, a semantic-web driven platform that raises visibility for underrepresented STEM pioneers and has been recognized by institutions like the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. A Yale computer science prizewinner and interdisciplinary researcher, Kenneth publishes on linked open data, digital preservation, and methods that enrich machine learning with culturally reflective metadata. His background spans full-stack engineering, data-driven ad tech, and knowledge-graph tooling (Python, TypeScript, SPARQL, Wikibase) applied to real products and grant-funded public health research. Beyond engineering leadership, he’s an active investor, advisor, and speaker who translates cultural-heritage scholarship into production systems that scale. Notably, he pairs startup velocity with scholarly rigor—bringing FAIR data principles into commercial AI and media products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Yale UniversityHigh School Diploma College Prep, High School Diploma College Prep at Hickory Grove Christian SchoolSummer Research Program - Carolina Scholars, Summer Research Program - Carolina Scholars at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
web-application9
portal9
openseadragon8
viewer8
javascript8
rotate7
pan7
api7
wikidata7
react6
mirador6
iiif6
annotations6
madlibs5
react-components4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ScienceStories/application
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
This repo holds the source code for the web application
Contributions:7 reviews, 314 commits, 69 PRs in 3 years 11 months
javascriptweb-application
WikiDP/wikidp-portal
Apr 2017 - Mar 2021
Prototype wikidata portal project.
Contributions:22 reviews, 143 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 11 months
wikidatawikiprototypeportal
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