Sehmon Burnam
Visiting Scholar Resident Fellow at Nota
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSehmon Burnam is a creative technologist and product engineer with 12 years of experience bridging AI research, interactive media, and commercial products across Google, startups, and academia. As an ex-Google DeepMind/AI product manager, they led art, music and creativity-focused ML initiatives and shipped consumer-facing experiences like a React Native festival app with 150k+ downloads. As co-founder of Nota they build cultural-tech experiences for clients including Google Arts & Culture and Lyrical Lemonade, and led engineering for Atelier Jolie’s Fairchain collectibles platform. Their open-source front-end work includes UI and social metadata improvements to widely used storytelling tools like JuxtaposeJS and TimelineJS, reflecting an attention to UX and web sharing. Based in New York and currently a Visiting Scholar/Resident Fellow at NYU, Sehmon blends hands-on engineering, digital fabrication, and artistic direction to mentor MA students and ship hybrid art-tech products. A futurist at heart, they combine product rigor with creative R&D to turn experimental ideas into polished, scalable experiences.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Interactive Media Arts, Master of Arts - MA Interactive Media Arts at New York UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityCreative Computing Computer Science, Creative Computing Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London
English
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
uid10
javascript10
social-media10
metadata-management10
integrate10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
integrations10
twitter-card9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NUKnightLab/juxtapose
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
JuxtaposeJS is a JavaScript library for making before/after image sliders
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 pushes, 2 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sehmon primarily contributed to the front-end of the JuxtaposeJS project. Their commits focused on updating the website's templates and metadata, including adding and updating Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags. They also incorporated dynamic copyright year to the footer and extracted and updated example sections. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user interface, website information, and maintainability.
javascript-libraryimageslidersjavascriptbefore-after
NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
TimelineJS v3: A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript. http://timeline.knightlab.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sehmon focused on enhancing the user interface and social media integration for the TimelineJS3 project. They implemented dynamic copyright information in the footer. Furthermore, the user added and updated metadata for Facebook and Twitter cards to improve the timeline's presentation on social media platforms. They also modified the image and title used in these social media cards.
timelinejavascripttimelinejsstorytellingbuilt-in
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