Luke Pastore at CWRU podium

Luke Pastore

CWRU Computer Science, Psychology | Minor in AI

Graduating August '25

Projects

Outfit Recommendation Mobile App

React Native app recommending outfits using CSP rules for weather, color, formality, and layering.

CSPReact NativeFirebase

8-Puzzle AI Solver

AI solver for the 8-puzzle using A*, UCS, and heuristics with focus on efficiency and memory use.

AISearch AlgorithmsA*

Racket-Based Language Interpreter

Interpreter with variables, closures, control flow, and tail recursion in pure Racket style.

InterpretersRacketFunctional Programming

De-identification Tool for Research Data

Flask/Docker tool using NLP and AI tagging to anonymize text data for IRB compliance.

NLPFlaskDocker

Tax Policy Comparison Engine

Dashboards comparing flat, regressive, and progressive tax impacts on income and inequality.

Data AnalysisTax PolicyInequality

City Livability Comparison Tool

Tool ranking cities by income, taxes, jobs, and cost of living, with customizable factors.

Data ScienceCity RankingsLivability

Domo Dashboard & ETL Automation System

Interactive Domo dashboards with automated ETL for pricing, performance, and reporting.

DomoETL AutomationData Visualization

Mac Mini Laptop Conversion

Converted a Mac Mini into a portable laptop with custom wiring, LCD, battery, and cooling.

Hardware EngineeringMac MiniElectronics

Food Tracking App

SwiftUI app for logging food with photos or text, tracking macros, progress, and insights.

SwiftUIMobile AppHealth Tracking

Storage Unit Finder App

React Native app browsing self-storage units with filters, promotions, and sales-oriented UI.

React NativeWeb ScrapingAPIs

Custom Email Client

SwiftUI email client with multi-account support, threading, HTML rendering, and tagging.

SwiftUIEmail ClientsiOS

Automated Job Posting Finder

Python scraper aggregating jobs, filtering by skills and location, with alerts and logs.

PythonWeb ScrapingAutomation

Apartment Finder Tool

Scraper with geofencing, NLP parking detection, and email alerts for rental listings.

PythonNLPRental Listings

Cleveland Housing Analytics Project

React + MapLibre frontend with Flask APIs to analyze Cleveland housing vacancy and trends.

ReactMapLibreFlask

Personal Finance & Spending Flow Dashboard

React-based finance dashboard with custom Sankey visualizations for income, spending, and savings flows.

ReactTypeScriptPlotly
Outfit Recommendation Mobile App

Outfit Recommendation Mobile App

React Native app recommending outfits using CSP rules for weather, color, formality, and layering.

Developed a mobile app to recommend daily outfits tailored to each user. Used a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) approach to enforce rules like color matching, layering order, and weather-appropriate clothing. Integrated a Firebase backend for secure photo storage and retrieval of clothing items. Built a Flask API to handle CSP solving logic and serve outfit combinations. React Native was used for the front-end to ensure cross-platform deployment. Added filters for formality and activity context to make results practical for everyday use. Focused on intuitive user experience and the ability to extend rules easily. The system balanced personalization with flexibility, encouraging exploration of new outfit choices.

CSPReact NativeFirebaseFlaskRecommendation Systems

Work & Experience

Assistant Vice President (KCIS)

KeyBankOverland Park, KS

August 2026 – Present

Leading AI strategy and implementation across Key Commercial Investor Services, a commercial loan servicing platform with $720B in assets under management

Identifying and prioritizing high-value AI opportunities across servicing, surveillance, investor reporting, and other operational workflows

Translating business process inefficiencies into scalable AI solutions focused on reducing manual effort, improving turnaround time, and increasing data quality

Project managing AI initiatives across business, technology, risk, and data teams while tracking productivity, efficiency, and quality improvements

Establishing repeatable AI usage patterns and evaluating emerging capabilities for commercial real estate servicing and investor reporting

Senior Consultant

AsycndentRemote

2026 – August 2026

Led evaluation of SLM and LLM-based intelligent document processing applications across real estate lending and institutional banking

Developed strategic recommendations for AI adoption covering technical architecture, build requirements, risk, and governance considerations

Prototyped document extraction and quality control workflows using SLM and LLM technologies

Conducted buy-vs-build analyses and evaluated third-party AI and document processing vendors

Project Manager – AI & Data Systems Analyst

Weatherhead School of ManagementCleveland, OH

September 2024 – 2026

Analyzed team dynamics and communication inefficiencies on a $3B hospital construction project

Built custom parsers to tokenize and extract speaker-state transitions to identify systemic communication bottlenecks

Designed algorithms to trace cross-team dependency chains and identify organizational failure points

Developed RAG models and data extraction pipelines to analyze more than nine years of data across construction projects

Developed tools to de-identify research data in accordance with Institutional Review Board requirements

Business Intelligence Developer

Pastore Solutions LLCRemote (Boston, MA)

June 2024 – 2026

Consulted for a self-storage company operating 18 facilities across four states

Developed executive dashboards to identify operational issues, analyze pricing, and evaluate facility performance

Designed backend systems including schedulers, HTTP clients, and stateful parsers to collect competitor pricing data

Automated pricing workflows using RPA and Domo, saving more than 100 hours of manual work per month

Developed and integrated RAG models into customer-facing experiences

Built a native customer representative and sales portal integrating tools including Zapier, Streak, and Hiver

Digital Analyst Intern

KeyBankCleveland, OH

May 2024 – August 2024

Analyzed digital banking operations including request/response times, latency distributions, and user journeys to identify design inefficiencies

Built ROI models and Tableau dashboards to evaluate transitioning from ported web code to native mobile applications

Developed a business case for native mobile development incorporating cost-benefit analysis, customer benchmarking, and cross-team collaboration

Conducted competitive analysis of financial institutions across digital features, user experience, customer engagement, and market positioning

Education

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Case Western Reserve University

August 2021 – August 2025

Bachelor's in Computer Science & Psychology (Double Major)

Minor in Artificial Intelligence

University of Auckland Logo

University of Auckland

Feburary 2023 - June 2023

Study Abroad Semester

St. John's Preparatory School Logo

St. John's Preparatory School

September 2018 – May 2021

Classes of Interest

Computer Science

Intro to Artificial Intelligence

Programming Language Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Senior Capstone

Business / Psychology

Leading Organizations

Leading People

High-Functioning Teams

Managing Negotiations

Consumer Psychology