Carter Mauer

I'm Carter!

CS grad from LSU, concentration in Cybersecurity. Most of my coursework sat at the intersection of how systems break and how to build them so they don't. Looking for roles in security engineering, backend development, or anywhere that benefits from thinking like that.

bash — carter@dev

About Skills Projects Journey

01 About

Spent four years at LSU mostly figuring out how software fails. The low end of the stack became a comfort zone, spanning operating systems, memory management, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. But I built real software alongside that, including a mobile app with active users, backend APIs, file servers, and a first-person horror game in Unreal Engine. I tend to enjoy work that requires actually understanding a system before you can meaningfully change it. I always recall one of Albert Einstein's valuable quotes: "If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself."

02 Skills

The tools I reach for most. Python covers scripting and automation. C when I need to think in bytes. Node.js on the backend. SQL whenever there's a database involved. Java from earlier coursework that still shows up.

Python

SQL

Node.js

Java

03 Projects

Most of what I build starts as something I personally needed or something that seemed worth figuring out. A few of them turned into things other people actually use.

Whirl Campus App

A mobile app for LSU students to meet new people, find events, and stay connected with campus life. I handled the backend and authentication, utilizing Supabase for database design to keep things fast and resilient.

Withdrawal

A first-person psychological horror game in Unreal Engine 5. Players are trapped in a looping, shifting room, uncovering what happened through environmental clues, subtle hallucinations, and puzzle-solving. Built with a small team over a semester.

MNIST Image Classification

Trained multiple classifiers on the MNIST handwritten digit dataset, from logistic regression up to a small convolutional network. More of a learning exercise than a product, but it made how these models actually work feel concrete.

Secure File Manager

A client-server file management system featuring secure upload, download, and delete functionalities on a remote server with proper authentication and access controls. Built with Node.js and TypeScript.

04 Journey

Education

2021 — 2026
Louisiana State University

B.S. in Computer Science, concentration in Cybersecurity. Coursework included malware analysis, reverse engineering, AI, and software engineering.
2017 — 2021
High School

Picked up Python and started learning security concepts through CTF challenges. Built small tools, got hooked, decided this was worth doing seriously.

Experience

2025 — Present
IT and Support Work

Campus tech support, helping students and staff with software issues, account problems, and hardware troubleshooting.
2025 — Present
CompTIA Security+ (In Progress)

Studying for Security+ to formalize what I already know: network security, threat analysis, cryptography, and risk management.

Core Areas

Cybersecurity & Analysis

Malware analysis, reverse engineering, and system security.

Backend Development

Building APIs, database design, and working with cloud services like Supabase.

Systems Programming

C, Assembly, operating system internals, and low-level system behavior.

Scripting & Automation

Python-based tools, task automation, and practical scripts.

Certification Goals

CompTIA Security+

In Progress

Covering network security, threat analysis, identity and access management, cryptography, and risk management. Formalizing knowledge built through coursework, projects, and labs into a recognized credential.

Actively Studying

CompTIA Network+

Planned

Networking fundamentals covering protocols, infrastructure, and troubleshooting. On the list after Security+ is done.