CARSON
READER

Software Developer Working On Cool Things

About Me

I'm Carson, a Software Engineer based in the Bay Area with a passion for creating efficient, thoughtful, and memorable software. I focus on solving real world problems with scalable, creative solutions. In my free time I enjoy creating 3D art in Blender and programming video games in Godot. If you you'd like to chat, please reach out.

Experience

B.A. in Computer Science

Lewis & Clark College

Two time 1st place winner of the LC Hackathon. Served as president of the LC ACM chapter my Junior and Senior year where I led workshops on topics including Git, circuitry and game development. Graduated with C.S and Mathematics departmental honors award for 2025.

BCI Programmer

Oregon Health & Science University

At OHSU, I designed and implemented an orchestration module for open source brain-computer interface software in Python. Implemented unit tests, and worked with a team via Git and GitHub to ensure a high code quality standard.

3D Modeler

Lewis & Clark College

Created game-ready 3D assets for use in a behavioral study using Unity Engine and Blender. Advised project leads on rendering techniques and animation.

Teacher's Assistant

Algorithms & Data Structures

Tested and graded student work for the Algorithm Design and Analysis class. Supported students in office hours by providing intuitive explanations for complex data structures and algorithms.

Projects

CGI render of a monkey and reflective sphere sitting in a colorful room.

Path Tracer

A multithreaded CPU path tracer written in C, using only a simple drawing library on top of X11. Supports importing 3D models, camera controls, depth of field, and more.

Screenshot of a video game with a rune floating at the end of a dark hallway.

DarkSeer

Godot

An original puzzle game created in 2 weeks for a game jam. Playable in your browser. Written in GDScript and gdshader.

Screenshot of the top of this webpage, with the text 'Carson Reader' with a subheader that reads 'This is getting kinda meta'

CarsonReader.xyz

Svelte

GLSL

Tailwind

TypeScript

The website you are on right now! Created with Sveltekit, TailwindCSS, and TypeScript. Has custom GLSL shaders running in WebGL to create the background effects.

A screenshot of an app with a transcript on the left and summary of the transcript on the right in bullet points. Large text at the top of the image says 'GIST'

G.I.S.T

React

Sass

Electron

TypeScript

An app for automatically translating, transcribing, and summarizing audio recordings using Whisper and GPT. Written in React with a desktop app via Electron. Placed 1st in Lewis & Clark's Spring 2023 Hackathon.

QuestScraper

Python

HTML

A Python app that scrapes data from reed college websites, providing the Reed newspaper editors with structured crime and event data to print each week. Uses BeautifulSoup, Gooey, and Pyinstaller to provided an intuitive standalone app.

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