Summary
Luke Early is a Chief Electrical Engineer and third-year Columbia Engineering student specializing in electrical engineering with a strong foundation in physics, systems programming, and information security. With nine years of hands-on experience, he has progressed through leadership roles at Columbia University Formula Racing from Low Voltage member to Software Lead and now Chief Electrical Engineer, where he focuses on motor drive design, simulation, and control. He has practical industry exposure as a firmware engineer intern at Tesla working on PIL development for next-generation Supercharger cabinets and pursued research in relational verification of software patches at Columbia CS. Luke blends hardware prototyping skills—CNC, metalworking, and 3D printing learned during a P&G R&D collaboration—with low-level software and security-minded systems thinking. Based in New York, he is comfortable bridging multidisciplinary teams to deliver electromechanical systems and safety-critical firmware. An uncommon strength is his combined fluency in control electronics and formal software verification, enabling pragmatic yet rigorous designs.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Walnut Hills High School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at Columbia University