resume:
  pdf_file_name: BreeLaPointeResume.pdf
  name:
  - Bree
  - LaPointe
  title: 'Senior Software Engineer'
  contact:
   links:
   - text: 'hello@breel.dev'
     link: 'mailto:hello@breel.dev'
     svg: '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512" style="width: 13pt; height: 13pt; fill: rgb(82, 82, 82);"><path d="M64 112c-8.8 0-16 7.2-16 16v22.1L220.5 291.7c20.7 17 50.4 17 71.1 0L464 150.1V128c0-8.8-7.2-16-16-16H64zM48 212.2V384c0 8.8 7.2 16 16 16H448c8.8 0 16-7.2 16-16V212.2L322 328.8c-38.4 31.5-93.7 31.5-132 0L48 212.2zM0 128C0 92.7 28.7 64 64 64H448c35.3 0 64 28.7 64 64V384c0 35.3-28.7 64-64 64H64c-35.3 0-64-28.7-64-64V128z"></path></svg>'
   #- text: (336) 701-6159
   #  link: 'tel:3367016159'
   #  svg: '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512" style="width: 13pt; height: 13pt; fill: rgb(82, 82, 82);"><path d="M164.9 24.6c-7.7-18.6-28-28.5-47.4-23.2l-88 24C12.1 30.2 0 46 0 64C0 311.4 200.6 512 448 512c18 0 33.8-12.1 38.6-29.5l24-88c5.3-19.4-4.6-39.7-23.2-47.4l-96-40c-16.3-6.8-35.2-2.1-46.3 11.6L304.7 368C234.3 334.7 177.3 277.7 144 207.3L193.3 167c13.7-11.2 18.4-30 11.6-46.3l-40-96z"></path></svg>'
   - text: Provo, UT
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   - text: linkedin.com/in/breeldev
     link: https://linkedin.com/in/breeldev
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  headings:
  - title: Work Experience
    headings:
    - title: Render
      headings:
      - title: Senior Software Engineer
        when: May 2025 - Present
        what:
        - Stabilized automated management, performance tuning, and point-in-time-recovery infrastructure of tens of thousands of PostgreSQL databases.
      - title: Software Engineer
        when: Dec 2023 - May 2025
        what:
        - Crafted PostgreSQL low-downtime migrations and in-place major version upgrades.
    - title: Qualtrics
      headings:
      - title: Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
        when: May 2022 - Dec 2023
        what:
        - Optimized a Go application to increase consumption rate from Kafka by 340%, costing half the engineering effort of the proposed rewrite.
        #- Devised a MongoDB live indexing strategy, which supported both current and future use cases, and saved the computing and filling of a new 99% unused native database index.
        - Spearheaded AWS asset replication tooling, sparing 9 teams from duplicating work relocating up to 7 AWS technologies each.
        - Mentored 2 intern, 2 new grad, and 4 mid-level engineers on operational tools, best practices for maintainable software, and career development.
        - Founded the in-house standard system to continuously verify 16 teams' compliance with disaster recovery requirements.
        - Created automated release test suites for 11 services, which catches 10 would-be customer facing bugs per month on average.
      - title: Software Engineer II
        when: Oct 2019 - May 2022
        what:
        #- "Scripted no-downtime database reconfiguration, which was leveraged by 3 teams to update 168 instances."
        - Automated infrastructure patching for 30 microservices and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and testable Bash script framework.
        #- Administered on-call training, including 6 chaos tests gamedays across 5 systems.
      - title: Software Engineer I
        when: Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
        what:
        - Founded Python tookit for full and incremental MongoDB backups, supporting partitioned deployments. The in-house standard for 21 teams.
        - Decreased internal service's annual outages by 91% and hardware costs by 40% via database migration. Scoped alternatives, projected costs, and designed cutover.
  - title: Education
    headings:
    - title: Wake Forest University
      not-when: Dec 2017
      what:
      - Master of Science in Computer Science - 3.88/4.00 GPA
    #- title: High Point University
    #  not-when: Dec 2015
    #  what:
    #  - Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science - 3.91/4.00 GPA
  #- title: PUBLICATIONS
  #  headings:
  #  - title: Arabidopsis thaliana computationally-generated next-state gene interaction models
  #    when: Jun 2018
  #    what:
  #    - Refactored to correct bugs and improve efficiency by orders of magnitude
  - title: Skills
    what:
    - 'Languages: Go (Golang), Bash, Python3'
    - 'Platforms: Kubernetes, Temporal, Hashicorp, Linux/Unix, AWS, REST, Microservices'
    - 'Datastores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, S3, Couchbase, DynamoDB'