# Bree LaPointe

Bree LaPointe, Senior Software Engineer
contact@blapointe.com | (336) 701-6159 | Provo, UT
https://blapointe.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lapoba16
EXPERIENCE
Qualtrics, Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead May 2022 — Present
https://www.qualtrics.com

- 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.

Qualtrics, Software Engineer II 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.
- 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.

Qualtrics, Software Engineer I 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 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.

PUBLICATIONS
Arabidopsis thaliana computationally-generated next-state gene interaction models Jun 2018

- Refactored to correct bugs and improve efficiency by orders of magnitude

EDUCATION
Wake Forest University Jan 2016 — Dec 2017
Master of Science - Computer Science, GPA: 3.88/4.00
High Point University Aug 2013 — Dec 2015
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science, GPA: 3.91/4.00
SKILLS
Languages: Go (expert), Bash (expert), Python3 (proficient)
Platforms: Docker (expert), Hashicorp (expert), Linux/Unix (expert), AWS (proficient), Jenkins (proficient), REST (proficient), Microservice Architecture (proficient), Git (proficient)
Datastores: MongoDB (expert), Redis (expert), S3 (expert), Couchbase (proficient), DynamoDB (proficient)
LANGUAGES
English (Native speaker)