Zachary Luscher
Graduate Metallurgist Operations
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Luscher is a hands-on metallurgist and process engineer with eight years of cross-industry experience spanning gold extraction, neurodevice fabrication, and consumer product manufacturing. Currently operating in high-throughput gold refining at Northern Star Resources, he combines frontline operations (10,000+ oz/week, 200 t/hr) with data-driven process optimization developed during internships and research roles. His background includes device-level fabrication and electrochemical testing for neural interfaces, PCB design and patent-focused documentation, alongside Python-driven process automation and machine learning for mining yield improvements. Comfortable in field PPE or a lab cleanroom, he bridges practical troubleshooting, SOP creation, and production-scale quality assurance. Notably, he has implemented embedded monitoring solutions (Raspberry Pi) and automated analytics that translated lab data into operational control strategies. Trained at the University of Utah in materials engineering, he brings a rare blend of metallurgy, electronics, and software tooling to industrial process challenges.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)r, Material Science Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)r, Material Science Engineering at University of Utah College of Engineering
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Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zluscher/zluscher.github.io
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:76 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
zluscher/Machine-Learning
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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