B LaPointe

Profession Software Developer
Location Provo, UT
Web blapointe.com
LinkedIn lapoba16
Email contact@blapointe.com

Work Experience

Software Engineer I
Feb 2018 - Present
Qualtrics
  • Created use-case agnostic interfaces for low-latency, highly available data stores.
  • Implemented concurrency-safe message queue SDK for internal use.
  • Evaluated, proposed, and load tested alternative data stores.
Research Assistant
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Wake Forest University
  • Incorporated knowledge from biological literature into a genetic algorithm.
  • Improved runtime exponentially from prior approaches with comparable results.
  • Collaborated across departments and perspectives.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Wake Forest University

3.88/4.00 GPA, Upsilon Pi Epsilon member

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Aug 2013 - Dec 2015
High Point University

3.91/4.00 GPA, Summa Cum Laude, University Fellowship, Dean's List, Honor's List

Projects

RSS Monitor
May 2018 - Aug 2018

RSS feed aggregator with item and content filtering managed via a RESTful API.

"A BCHC genetic algorithm model of cotemporal hierarchical Arabidopsis thaliana gene interactions"
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

Published in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.

Knapsack Problem Genetic Algorithm
Jan 2017 - May 2017

Finds near optimal solutions to knapsack problems in polynomial time and space. Includes tabu search and result analysis. Solution written in C with analysis in Python3.

Skills and Tools

Go
1 yr
Python
2 yrs
C
3 yrs
C++
3 yrs
Others
Java, HTML5, CSS3, Rundeck, Jenkins, Couchbase, MongoDB, OpenGL, Javascript, PThreads, MPI, OpenMP, AWS, GCP

About Me

I have the pleasure of professionally working with my favorite languages (Go and Python3) as I tackle problems with data availability, redundancy, and sovereignty. Concurrency and reusability are my two favorite aspects of writing code, and I look forward to every opportunity to extend and refine my skill set.
When I'm not working, you'll find me cycling, programming, or fiddling with my flavor-of-the-week web technology or data store.