Bree LaPointeSenior Software Engineercontact@blapointe.com(336) 701-6159Provo, UTlinkedin.com/in/lapoba16WORK EXPERIENCEQualtricsSenior Software Engineer, Team LeadMay 2022 - Present - Mentored entry to mid-level engineers on stability, clean code, and distributed systems as team lead. - Hosted engineering book and white paper clubs for continuous approvement and cross-team experience sharing for 2 years. - Recovered 98% of data lost in critical incident via coordinating cross team efforts and disecting native database operation logs.Software Engineer IIOct 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. - 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.Software Engineer IFeb 2018 - Oct 2019 - Automated no-downtime system patching for 30 services and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and testable scripting framework. - Increased backend service's availability 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.EDUCATIONWake Forest UniversityMaster of Science in Computer Science - 3.88/4.00Dec 2017High Point UniversityBachelor of Arts in Computer Science - 3.91/4.00Dec 2015PUBLICATIONSArabidopsis thaliana computationally-generated next-state gene interaction modelsJune 2018 - Refactored to correct bugs and improve efficiency by orders of magnitudeSKILLS - Languages: Golang, Bash, Python3 - Platforms: Docker, Hashicorp, Linux/Unix, AWS, Jenkins, REST, Microservices, Git - Datastores: MongoDB, Redis, S3, Couchbase, DynamoDB