# Sehmon Burnam > Creative Technologist | Product Engineer | Ex-Google Deepmind PM Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sehmon Creative Technologist | Product Engineer | Ex-Google Deepmind PM | MA in Interactive Media Arts from NYU | Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow ## Work Experience ### Visiting Scholar / Resident Fellow @ New York University Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Research Resident for NYU's IMA Low Res master's program, supporting MA students with thesis projects focusing on Software Development, Digital Fabrication, and Artistic Conceptual Direction. ### Product Engineer + Technical Lead @ Nota Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States Cofounded Nota (formerly Dial Up Digital), a digital studio creating unique experiences at the intersection of music, technology, and culture. Selected clients include Google Arts & Culture, Lyrical Lemonade, Atelier Jolie, and more. ### Google Arts & Culture [Creative Technologist] @ Nota Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Creative Technologist working with Google Arts & Culture + XL Records ### The Summer Smash [Product Engineer] @ Nota Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Designed and developed the digital package for the annual Summer Smash music festival, the largest independent hip-hop festival, including a cross-platform React Native app which has amassed over 150,000 total downloads and reached #14 on the US music app charts. ### Atelier Jolie (Angelina Jolie) x Fairchain [Engineering Lead] @ Nota Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Product Lead and Engineer for Fairchain’s title management platform. Designed and Developed infrastructure to support a new asset type (collectibles) in preparation for onboarding Atelier Jolie, Angelina Jolie’s latest fashion venture. ### Lead Studio Manager @ Art Studio Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States Studio Manager for Gallery-Represented artist in New York City, focusing on Digital Fabrication R&D (CNC, Laser, 3D Modeling, Woodworking, Material Finish, Painting, Sculpture), Supply Chain Management, and General Studio Operations. ### AI Product Manager @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Art, Music, Creativity, and AI research ### Associate Product Manager @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Associate Product Manager working on COVID-19 Exposure Notifications and Google Brain's Project Magenta, exploring research and applications of machine learning in art and music. ### Teaching Assistant @ Northwestern University Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area ### Student Fellow @ Northwestern University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area The Northwestern University Knight Lab is a team of technologists, journalists, designers and educators working to advance news media innovation through exploration and experimentation. The Knight Lab develops prototypes, projects and services that help make information meaningful, promoting quality journalism, storytelling and content on the Internet. Student Fellows help write and maintain software used by over 300,000 journalists and publications around the world. ### APM Intern @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area APM intern on Android TV, bringing Google's principles of Digital Wellbeing to TV ### Engineering Fellow - 2017 @ Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Fellowship Program offers top U.S. college and graduate students a chance to work inside innovative Silicon Valley startups. KPCB Engineering Fellows join our portfolio companies, where they develop their technical skills and are mentored by an executive within the company. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Zumper Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed and developed: (1) new in-house analytics platform to help understand aggregate behavior of our 5+ million users per month. (2) new web crawler to manage real-time updates of 1,000+ apartments in key markets. (3) http request replay machine to test server integrity and ensure software stability between web deployments. Wrote accompanying product requirement documents for each project. ### Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area Worked with Google's Infrastructure Networking team designing and developing software solutions for Google's data centers. Through software-defined networking, we are able to build real-time, low- latency software models of Google's network. Developed a tool in Python to verify links within a large-scale, globally diverse network by deriving models of paths through the network. ### STA Technology Intern @ Union County Vocational-Technical Schools Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Scotch Plains, NJ The UCVTS STA Internship is a selective program at UCVTS meant to teach students about how large-scale technology departments are managed, organized, and maintained. A combination of technology grades from Freshmen through Junior years, teacher recommendations, attendance and an interview process, help determine the new Student Technology Assistants. During the school year students will spend a portion of their day working as interns for the technology department. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Northwestern University Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Master of Arts - MA in Interactive Media Arts New York University Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Creative Computing in Computer Science Goldsmiths, University of London Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sehmon - GitHub: https://github.com/sehmon - Website: https://sehmon.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/sehmon JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sehmon/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23