Bree LaPointe
Experience
Senior Software Engineer, Qualtrics
May 2022 – Present
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
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