Bree LaPointe
Experience
Software Developer II
Qualtrics
Oct 2019 – Present
- Developed and maintained generic, highly available, and highly reliable data storage solutions, ingestion services, and operational tooling.
- Designed a platform to unify existing and upcoming services behind a simplified, asynchronous API. # 2do identify health or somethin
Software Developer I
Qualtrics
Feb 2018 – Oct 2019
- Automated no-downtime system patching for X services and Y database clusters by creating a modular, testable scripting framework.
- Increased availability of a service from 98% to 99.99% and reduced hardware costs by 40% by selecting, training team on, and migrating to a different database.
Projects
Disaster Recovery Organization Representative
Dec 2020 – Present
- Supported during training runs with documentation, tools, and live support for all teams.
- Enforced continuous compliance for 17 database clusters with monitoring and alerting.
Technical Book Club and White Paper Club Lead
Jan 2019 – Present
MongoDB Virtual Team Member
Jul 2018 – Present
- Encouraged performant and reliable deployments by advising on configuration and data models.
- Reduced resolution windows for outages as on call subject matter expert.
- Genericized disaster recovery for 21 teams by building backup, restore, and monitoring tools.
Publication: Arabidopsis thaliana computationally-generated next-state gene interaction models
Jan 2017 – Dec 2017
- Improved research implementation efficiency by orders of magnitude with an iteration of evolutionary algorithm. # 2do an iteration
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science
Wake Forest University
Jan 2016 – Dec 2017
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science
High Point University
Aug 2013 – Dec 2015
Skills
- Languages: Golang, Python3, bash
- Platforms: MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis, Linux, AWS, Docker, Rundeck, Jenkins, Hashicorp stack