# Luke Sanborn

> Princeton ’28 | Founding Software Engineer @ GPTZero | Co-Founded Percent Human (Acquired ’23)

Location: Shelton, Connecticut, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lukesanborn

I've spent the past three years building at GPTZero, joining as one of the earliest employees and growing with the company from pre-product-market-fit to $24M in annual revenue. Most recently I led the redesign of our Chrome extension, which scaled from 100K to 400K users in six months. Before that, I co-founded Percent Human, a Chrome extension for AI detection used by 10,000+ educators weekly, which was acquired by GPTZero in 2023. I'm studying computer science at Princeton, where I also build apps used by hundreds of students for course planning and campus dining.

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ GPTZero
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, NY
- Joined as a founding software engineer; contributed to company growth from ~$50K to $24M ARR over three years. Most recently led the redesign of GPTZero's Chrome extension across a team of engineers, scaling from 100K to 400K users within six months.
 - Built a rendering engine to replay Google Docs edits with a pre-rendering strategy for long documents. Created Amplitude funnels and GrowthBook feature flags to A/B test UI changes, driving +8–12% feature engagement and ~30K new MAU.
- Shipped a white-label enterprise deployment with multi-tenant configuration, and led development of Google Classroom and Google Workspace integrations connecting GPTZero's AI detection with LMS and email workflows

### Technical Operations Lead @ TigerLaunch
Jan 2024 – Present | Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Led the technical operations for the world’s largest student-run entrepreneurship competition, managing the application system for 500+ startups annually and the judging platform for 70+ VC judges across 6 regional competitions.
- Developed and maintained the judging interface, streamlining the evaluation process for startups that have collectively raised $1.4B+ in venture funding.
- Led data analysis to optimize the distribution of applicants and judges across global competitions and events.

### Project Manager @ Hoagie Club
Jan 2024 – Present | Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Managed a team of 15 developers. Worked on a web app on AWS for Princeton’s McGraw Tutoring Center for students to find study groups (frontend and backend).  Created an algorithm to recommend study groups based on open slots to students in that class. Used by 600 Princeton students over 30 study groups so far.

### Software Engineer @ The Daily Princetonian
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Developer @ TigerApps
Jan 2024 – Present | Princeton, New Jersey, United States
I worked with a team of student developers to add new features and squash bugs for Princeton’s course planning app, Tiger Plan. I individually added a feature to import students’ transcripts from TigerHub into Tiger Plan’s course scheduler through OCR and a backend script.

### Co-Founder, Full Stack Software Engineer @ Percent Human
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Developed a Google Chrome Extension to detect AI-generated content for use among teachers and students, with a 98% accuracy rate.
- Utilized a machine learning model and GPT-3 data for the detection of AI-generated text in essays & assignments.
- Successfully deployed software to the English and Social Studies department, enabling proactive plagiarism prevention from AI sources and increasing student accountability by 30%.
- Used by over 7k educators weekly and impacted over 20,000 teachers and students in less than 5 months.


## Education
### Computer Science
Princeton University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2028

### Shelton High School
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/luke-sanborn
- Website: https://lukesanborn.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-01