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Bree LaPointe

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

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

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