# Bree LaPointe - - 336-701-6159 - [blapointe.com](https://blapointe.com) - Provo, UT ## Experience ###
Senior Software Engineer, Qualtrics
May 2022 -- Present
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Software Engineer II, Qualtrics
Oct 2019 -- May 2022
- Developed and owned highly available and reliable data storage and operational tooling. - Mentored 2 interns, 2 new hires, and 3 mid-level cross team engineers on operational tools, maintainable software, and career development. - Led genericized AWS asset management tooling ahead of company-wide mass migration initiative. ###
Software Engineer I, Qualtrics
Feb 2018 -- Oct 2019
- Automated no-downtime system patching for 30 services and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and 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 without service interruption to a different database. ## Projects ###
Disaster Recovery Champion
Dec 2020 -- Present
- Supported training runs with documentation, tools, and live support for all teams. - Enforced continuous compliance for 17 database clusters with monitoring and alerting. ###
Software Engineering Book Club and White Paper Club Lead
Jan 2019 -- Present
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MongoDB Virtual Team Member
Jul 2018 -- Present
- Encouraged performant and reliable deployments by advising on configuration and data models. - 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 by refactoring. ## Education ###
Master of Science, Computer Science, Wake Forest University
Jan 2016 -- Dec 2017
- 3.88/4.00 GPA ###
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, High Point University
Aug 2013 -- Dec 2015
- 3.91/4.00 GPA ## Skills - **Languages**: Golang, Python3, bash - **Platforms**: MongoDB, Redis, Linux, AWS, Docker, Rundeck, Jenkins, Hashicorp stack