“I thrive in ambiguity - building strategy from research, shaping design principles and systems, and shipping products that create measurable outcomes for users and businesses.”
Anew Smartphone Operating System
Founded and led research, design, and development of a smartphone product that reduced chronic anxiety by 49% in research trials.
Anew.so
2020 - 2025
Pilot Product & User Study
The first version of Anew was tested at Carnegie Mellon in a 30 day study, yielding the initial average 49% anxiety reduction findings.
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Commercializing Product
Based on the significant amount of findings on the pilot's successes and shortcomings, a commercial product was designed and developed.
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Hosting Master's Internships
During design and engineering of the commercial product, Anew hosted 6 Masters internships from recent CMU MIIPS graduates, and one undergraduate internship.
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“Ridiculously efficient… scrappy when needed, rigorous in research, and made a dramatic difference in productivity and user trust.”
— Senior Engineering Manager, Uber
Uber Mapping
Suite
Led as sole designer on the Map Maker internal application, improving usability, expanding features, and increasing overall output efficiency by 27%.
Uber
2018 - 2020
Reusable Geometries
Drawing efficiency improved by up to 60% across polyline map features.
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Improved Visualization and Annotation
Creation efficiency of mission-critical map annotation increased by 70%.
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Drastically Improved Ease-Of-Use
Redesigned and unified input schema increased overall output efficiency by 27%.
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Finance
Applications
Led research and design on: an internal forex hedging application for traders, an insurance shopping platform, and a backend service monitoring system for engineers.
John Hancock Financial
2016 - 2018
Carnegie Mellon University
Led capstone HCII team to create an application that would later be used to raise $1.5M. Then cofounded a startup which raised a $125k angel round.
Carnegie Mellon University
2011 - 2015
Testimonials
Managers & Stakeholders
Jared Fagan
Senior Program Manager
Amazon, Ex-Uber
Luke was a motivated, forward thinking and intelligent designer with lots of knowledge in his field. He understands complex issues even when outside of his direct area of expertise.
For Luke the user is one of the most important parts of the solution. Thanks to his awesome interpersonal skills he had great relationships with all the team members. Always the energetic and broad-minded designer and a detail orientated team player. On account of his mature approach to his responsibilities, I often thought of Luke as a professional I could always rely upon to get the job done. Experiencing his fast and sharp mind at work was most impressive.
Vanitha Sengal Rao
Senior Engineering Manager
Aurora, Ex-Uber
“Ridiculously efficient” is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Luke. Luke expertly filled the role of a designer for my team for over a year.
Luke's ability to be initially scrappy as we discover and learn more about product requirements and then perform more thoughtful user research to come up with a UX design that made a dramatic difference in the productivity level of my team and uplifted the user's trust.
Unlike any I've seen before and no matter how tense a day is, Luke brings forward his honest empathy and makes each one on the team feel important and good.
Direct Reports
Taru Jain
Technical Product Manager
Inpleo, Ex-Anew
Luke is a great manager. He sets realistic goals and sets reasonable deadlines for achieving those goals. But he always pays attention to details, his understanding of people's needs is outstanding, and he makes everyone who works under him feel comfortable and heard.
As a leader, Luke deserves my highest recommendation.
Yee Kit Chan
Software Engineer
Ebay, Ex-Anew
Luke's thoroughness across all areas—product development, design, ethics, and mentorship—was truly inspiring. He was incredibly responsive and understanding of my level of experience, always treating my questions as valid and important.
Luke also provided me with unique opportunities to grow in any area I expressed interest in, whether it was research, decision-making, design, or implementation. His leadership style and dedication to fostering a growth-oriented environment during the internship period and beyond make him an exceptional CEO and mentor.
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Additional contributions
Wake Forest Guest Speaker On Leadership & Communication
Luke has been invited several times by professors at Wake Forest to give talks on how to present ideas to leadership, and sell them on strategy.
Ongoing Mentorship
Luke continues to mentor prior interns, in addition to CMU students.