Summary
Claire Luikart is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of diverse experience spanning embedded systems, game development, education, and defense software. She pairs a Master's in Computer Science from UIUC with hands-on leadership as a founding lead engineer at an indie game studio and as a current developer at Raytheon, delivering integrated codebases and debugging complex systems. Her background as a STEM lab director and instructor informs a pragmatic, mentorship-driven approach to engineering and tooling. Comfortable with electronics, CAD, and maker technologies as well as full software lifecycles, she excels at bridging hardware and software teams to ship polished products. Colleagues rely on her curiosity and broad skill set to solve unconventional problems and streamline cross-disciplinary workflows.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Jyväskylän yliopisto
LSU
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Hendrix College
English