Luke Schavel | Full-stack developer

Projects

IdeoRate

Assessment framework for open-source ideologies

A Python and Flask web app that analyzes GitHub-style commits, issues, pull requests, and comments to evaluate the themes of open-source software projects.

32 built-in analysis themes, each its own modular Flask Blueprint
JSON upload workflows for GitHub-style data
Utilities that normalize and validate incoming data
Interactive Plotly.js visualizations
Optional LLM insight summaries through Anthropic, OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock

Built with Python, Flask, REST APIs, Plotly.js, JSON, LLM integration

Presented at the CSUSM Summer Scholars Conference in 2026, where I won the Golden Hands award.

IdeoRate's Autonomy view for apache/cassandra, showing 31,845 commits analyzed, a Wednesday 4 PM peak, and a heatmap of commits by day and hour. — The Autonomy view maps 31,845 apache/cassandra commits by day and hour.

ClockedIn

Social event planning Android app

An Android app where people create events, RSVP, add friends, and join group chats. Built with a team on an Agile project.

Local data persistence with SQLite
Responsive UI updates with LiveData
Password security with jBCrypt

Built with Java, Android SDK, SQLite, LiveData, jBCrypt

A walkthrough of ClockedIn in Demo Mode with sample data.

Valken Connect

Bluetooth lighting control app

A Flutter app for the Valken brand that controls an RGBW daytime running light controller from your phone over Bluetooth Low Energy.

Device scanning, auto-connect, and handling for dropped connections
Command packets that set colors and the dedicated white channel
A custom color wheel with switchable Street and Show scenes
Saved color presets that persist between launches

Built with Flutter, Dart, Bluetooth Low Energy, flutter_blue_plus, shared_preferences

Animations and scheduling are planned next.

Valken Connect's color screen, showing a color wheel, brightness slider, quick colors, and saved presets. — The color screen, with a wheel, brightness slider, and saved presets.

Luke standing beside his research poster and a live dashboard demo at the 2026 Summer Scholars Poster Showcase. — Demoing IdeoRate next to my poster at the 2026 Summer Scholars Poster Showcase.

Luke holding his Summer Scholars Program Golden Hands Award certificate, standing beside a man in a patterned shirt. — With my Golden Hands Award from the Summer Scholars Program.

Experience

Summer Scholars Research Fellowship
June 2026 to present
- Developed a full-stack analytics platform in Python and Flask to process and analyze large software collaboration datasets.
- Designed modular pipelines that collect, validate, normalize, and report on project activity metrics.
- Integrated LLMs for sentiment analysis, automated categorization, and insight generation.
- Worked with faculty researchers and presented findings and demos to academic and research audiences.
- Won the Golden Hands award at the 2026 Summer Scholars showcase.
Founder, Valken Performance
August 2026 to present
- Founded an e-commerce brand for aftermarket performance parts for Toyota sports cars.
- Built and manage the Shopify storefront, including listings, pricing, merchandising, and customer-facing content.
- Oversee brand development and day-to-day operations.
ACM Hackathon Team Lead
2024 to 2025
- Led a team of 4 students designing and implementing solutions to competitive computing problems.

Skills

Languages: C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Assembly
Tools: Flask, REST APIs, SQLite, Android SDK, Git, GitHub, Unix/Linux
Focus areas: Full-stack development, LLM integration, data analysis, software engineering

Education

California State University San Marcos

BS in Computer Science, expected Fall 2027

GPA 3.48
Dean's List in 2023, 2024, and 2025
Coursework in data structures and algorithms, software engineering, and operating systems

Say hello

I'm looking for a computer science internship and have full availability.

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