resume:
  name:
  - Bree
  - LaPointe
  title: 'Senior Software Engineer'
  contact:
   links:
   - text: contact@blapointe.com
     link: mailto:contact@blapointe.com
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   - text: (336) 701 - 6159
     link: tel:3367016159
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   - text: Provo, UT
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   - text: linkedin.com/in/lapoba16
     link: https://linkedin.com/in/lapoba16
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  headings:
  - title: Skills
    what:
    - 'Languages: Golang, Bash, Python3'
    - 'Platforms: Docker, Hashicorp, Linux/Unix, AWS, Jenkins, REST, Microservices, Git'
    - 'Datastores: MongoDB, Redis, S3, Couchbase, DynamoDB'
  - title: Work Experience
    headings:
    - title: Qualtrics
      headings:
      - title: Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
        when: May 2022 - Present
        what:
        - Mentored entry and mid-level engineers on stability, clean code, and distributed systems.
        - Hosted engineering book and white paper clubs for continuous improvement and cross-team experience sharing for 2 years.
        - Recovered 98% of data lost in critical incident via coordinating cross team efforts and dissecting native database operation logs.
      - title: Software Engineer II
        when: Oct 2019 - May 2022
        what:
        - 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.
        - Genericized AWS asset management tooling ahead of company-wide mass migration initiative.
        - Championed disaster recovery by supporting training runs with documentation, tools, and live support across teams and enforced continuous compliance for 17 database clusters with monitoring and alerting.
        - Lent expertise owning MongoDB across teams by advising on configuration and data models and genericizing disaster recovery tooling for 21 teams.
      - title: Software Engineer I
        when: Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
        what:
        - Automated no-downtime system patching for 30 services and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and testable scripting framework.
        - Raised backend service's availability to 99.99% and reduced hardware costs by 40% by selecting, training team on, and live migrating to a different datastore.
  - title: Education
    headings:
    - title: Wake Forest University
      when: Dec 2017
      what:
      - Master of Science in Computer Science - 3.88/4.00
    - title: High Point University
      when: Dec 2015
      what:
      - Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science - 3.91/4.00
  - title: Publications
    headings:
    - title: Arabidopsis thaliana computationally-generated next-state gene interaction models
      when: Jun 2018
      what:
      - Refactored to correct bugs and improve efficiency by orders of magnitude