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Bree LaPointe
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Experience
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Senior Software Engineer, Qualtrics
May 2022 – Present
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Software Engineer II, Qualtrics
Oct 2019 – May 2022
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+- 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.
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Software Engineer I, Qualtrics
Feb 2018 – Oct 2019
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+- 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.
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Projects
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Disaster Recovery Champion
Dec 2020 – Present
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+- Supported training runs with documentation, tools, and live support for all teams.
+- Enforced continuous compliance for 17 database clusters with monitoring and alerting.
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Software Engineering Book Club and White Paper Club Lead
Jan 2019 – Present
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MongoDB Virtual Team Member
Jul 2018 – Present
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+- 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.
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Publication: Arabidopsis thaliana computationally-generated next-state gene interaction models
Jan 2017 – Dec 2017
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+- Improved research implementation efficiency by orders of magnitude by refactoring.
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Education
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Master of Science, Computer Science, Wake Forest University
Jan 2016 – Dec 2017
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Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, High Point University
Aug 2013 – Dec 2015
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Skills
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+- Languages: Golang, Python3, bash
+- Platforms: MongoDB, Redis, Linux, AWS, Docker, Rundeck, Jenkins, Hashicorp stack
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