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Luke Farritor (born 2001/2002)[1] is an American software engineer who is currently serving at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).[2][3]

Early life and education

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Luke is the son of Shane Farritor, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln professor from Ravenna.[4] Luke interned at SpaceX in 2023.[5] That year, he won a $250,000 prize from the Vesuvius Challenge for using artificial intelligence to decipher one of the Herculaneum Papyri scrolls.[6][7][8] Farritor's AI program segmented images of the scroll into 100 pixels by 100 pixels to determine the characters written in ink.[5][9][10]

Farritor studied computer science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, before dropping out to become a Thiel Fellow in 2024.[11][12]

Career

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See also: Department of Government Efficiency § DOGE workforce

Farritor was appointed to the Department of Government Efficiency in 2025, and is among a group of 19–24 year olds at the agency.[13] Farritor currently holds a General Services Administration (GSA) email and A-suite level clearance, with access to all GSA physical spaces and IT systems, according to Wired.[13] He is also an executive engineer in the office of the secretary of Health and Human Services.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Swan, Jonathan; Schleifer, Theodore; Haberman, Maggie; Conger, Kate; Mac, Ryan; Ngo, Madeleine (February 3, 2025). "Inside Musk's Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government". The New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2025.
  2. ^ "Farritor named co-winner of $700,000 prize for ID'ing scroll passages | Nebraska Today". news.unl.edu. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  3. ^ "Musk visits and asserts growing influence at GSA". Nextgov.com. January 30, 2025. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  4. ^ Nebraska tech prodigy reportedly joins Elon Musk's DOGE project
  5. ^ a b Steinberg, Julia. "The 22-Year-Old Who Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Rome". www.thefp.com. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  6. ^ "How AI is revealing lost secrets of the Roman Empire". Science. February 3, 2025. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  7. ^ Henshall, Will (October 21, 2023). "Inside the AI-Powered Race to Decode Ancient Roman Scrolls". TIME. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  8. ^ Wade, Nicholas (October 12, 2023). "Scrolls That Survived Vesuvius Divulge Their First Word". The New York Times. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  9. ^ "First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student". scrollprize.org. Vesuvius Challenge. October 12, 2023. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  10. ^ Sample, Ian (October 12, 2023). "Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius". The Guardian. Retrieved October 13, 2023.
  11. ^ Dunker, Chris (February 5, 2024). "UNL student shares grand prize for translating scroll buried at Pompeii". JournalStar.com. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  12. ^ "Thiel Foundation Announces Next Thiel Fellow Class". Archived from the original on November 29, 2024. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
  13. ^ a b Elliott, Vittoria. "The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved February 3, 2025.
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