Luke is a graduate of Swarthmore College, where he studied Engineering and Peace & Conflict Studies. At Swarthmore, Luke was selected as a Lang Opportunity Scholar and worked with the Foundation for Delaware County to build a database focusing on racial inequity. He also played soccer and served as an admissions fellow.

Prior to the Digital Corps, Luke was a research programmer with the Delphi Research Group, which runs a machine learning research lab at Carnegie Mellon University focused on developing the theory and practice of epidemiological tracking and forecasting.