Bree LaPointe
Experience
Software Developer II, Qualtrics
Oct 2019 – Present
- Developed and owned highly available and reliable data storage and operational tooling.
- Designed a platform to unify data consistency services behind a simplified, asynchronous API.
- Mentored across teams on operational tools, software development, and career development via formal and impromptu connections with four new hires.
Software Developer 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
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
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, High Point University
Aug 2013 – Dec 2015
Skills
- Languages: Golang, Python3, bash
- Platforms: MongoDB, Redis, Linux, AWS, Docker, Rundeck, Jenkins, Hashicorp stack