Cybersecurity · Computer Science @ Baylor University · Class of 2027
Noah Mathew
I'm a computer science student at Baylor concentrating in cybersecurity. I spend my time on security competitions, an infrastructure security internship, and side projects across offensive security, defense, and digital forensics.
01 / Competitions
Cyber competitions,
a few seasons in
National Cyber League, Spring 2026 Individual Game
7,010 competitors nationwide · nine skill domains · one weekend
accuracy & national rank by category (rank of 7,010)
CCDC · 2026
Southwest Regionals
Qualified for the Southwest Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition regionals with the Baylor team. In CCDC you keep a small business network running while a red team tries to break in, so it's as much sysadmin work as it is security.
announcement ↗NCL · Fall 2024
Team Captain, Top 50
Captained Baylor's second team to a Top 50 finish out of 4,500+ teams. Individually I placed 420th of 8,487 that season, and 23rd of 7,010 by Spring 2026.
Hivestorm · 2024
39th of 413 teams
Four-person cyber defense simulation: hardening Windows and Linux systems, vulnerability scanning, and patch management against the clock. We finished as Baylor's top team on our first try.
02 / Projects
Things I've built
Python · BeautifulSoup · automation
CTF-Tools
Custom wordlist generators I wrote during a competition when the standard dictionaries weren't cutting it. They scrape structured sources like Wikipedia tables and Goodreads lists and turn them into targeted cracking wordlists in seconds.
It started in an NCL password-cracking round. I'm growing it into a broader kit, with log-analysis and web-exploitation helpers next.
github.com/Dysous/CTF-Tools ↗C++ · SDL · data structures
Red-Black Tree Visualizer
A C++/SDL program that animates every insert, delete, and lookup in a red-black tree. It shows the recolorings and all four rotation cases step by step as the tree rebalances, and the layout reflows so nodes don't overlap.
Came with a written report and presentation on the balancing rules.
github.com/Dysous/DataStructuresFinalProject ↗hardware · reverse engineering · firmware
Consumer devices, custom firmware
Jailbroke a Nintendo Switch, Kindle, and a few Android devices using bootloader exploits, custom payloads, and replacement firmware to get low-level access past the vendor restrictions. All my own hardware, mostly done for fun and to understand how the protections work.
C++ · SDL · algorithms
Tiger Game
Group project implementing an asymmetric board-game with algorithmic strategy and an SDL front end.
repo ↗C++ · SDL · physics
Falling Balls
A small physics playground with gravity, collisions, and forces on interactive falling objects.
repo ↗bash · networking · teaching
Mini FTP Server
Bash file-sharing server written as teaching material for a Cyber at Baylor hands-on workshop I ran.
repo ↗03 / Leadership & Experience
Experience and leadership
Infrastructure & Network Cybersecurity Intern · Fannie Mae
June 2026 to present · Reston, VA · hybrid
I work on the infrastructure security team at Fannie Mae. Day to day that's endpoint protection with CrowdStrike Falcon, firewall compliance audits, and change management through the enterprise CAB process.
I wrote a Python script that automates firewall drift detection, and built another Python tool against the Palo Alto Panorama API to speed up diagnostics. I also work across ZScaler access policy and some SOAR automation.
2026 to present
President · Cyber at Baylor
I run Baylor's cybersecurity club, after a year as Events Chair where we grew active membership about 40% and Instagram about 32%. I plan the semester, line up speakers and sponsors, put together competition teams, and run hands-on workshops.
@cyberatbaylor ↗
2026 to present
President · Upsilon Pi Epsilon
I lead Baylor's chapter of UPE, the international honor society for the computing sciences, handling membership, inductions, and chapter events.
July 2024
Secure Development Workshop · Paycom
A weeklong program on secure software development: SDLC, hands-on XSS and SQL injection labs, and tools like Acunetix, sqlmap, OWASP ZAP, and Burp Suite.
ongoing
Workshops & Mentoring
A workshop series I run for club members covering Linux, networking, scripting, and CTF basics, built around live exercises instead of slides.
04 / Skills & Credentials
The toolbox
CompTIA Security+ ce
Certified August 2024 · security architecture, operations, and risk management
Baylor University
B.S. Computer Science, Cybersecurity concentration · GPA 3.75 · Dean's List ×4 · May 2027
offense
- Nmap
- Metasploit
- Burp Suite
- Hashcat
- John the Ripper
- Hydra
- sqlmap
- OWASP ZAP
defense & forensics
- Wireshark
- Volatility
- Ghidra
- Graylog
- pfSense
- Windows AD
- Binwalk
languages
- Python
- C / C++
- Java
- C#
- Bash
- PowerShell
- x86 ASM
- JavaScript
systems & dev
- Kali / Ubuntu
- Windows
- Docker
- Git
- Spring Boot
- React
- MySQL / MariaDB
- MongoDB
05 / Contact
Get in touch
I'm looking for information security internship and new-grad roles for 2027. Happy to talk through any of the competitions or projects here.