Bree LaPointe

• contact@blapointe.com
• (336) 701-6159
• blapointe.com
• Provo, UT

Experience

Software Developer II

Qualtrics

Oct 2019 – Present

• Designed cross-team database and service migrations for security, customer, and operational pain relief.
• Lead weekly technical book club and participated in leadership book club and white paper reviews.
• Interviewed and mentored entry level candidates.
• Developed and maintained generic, highly available and reliable data storage solutions, ingestion services, and operations tools.

Software Developer I

Qualtrics

Feb 2018 – Oct 2019

• Deployed the first sharded MongoDB cluster of the company. Acting in-house SME for MongoDB, Couchbase, and Redis operations.
• Built an extensible framework for no-downtime system patching across services and clusters with modules for five databases.

Research

Arabidopsis thaliana computationally-generated next-state gene interaction models

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017

• Implemented an exponentially more efficient solution than previous work with comparable correctness.
• Published September 2018

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, Couchbase, Redis, Linux, AWS, Docker, Rundeck, Jenkins, Hashicorp stack