resume:
name:
- Bree
- LaPointe
title: 'Senior Software Engineer'
contact:
links:
- text: contact@blapointe.com
link: mailto:contact@blapointe.com
svg: ''
- text: (336) 701 - 6159
link: tel:3367016159
svg: ''
- text: Provo, UT
svg: ''
- text: linkedin.com/in/lapoba16
link: https://linkedin.com/in/lapoba16
svg: ''
headings:
- title: Skills
what:
- 'Languages: Golang, Bash, Python3'
- 'Platforms: Docker, Hashicorp, Linux/Unix, AWS, Jenkins, REST, Microservices, Git'
- 'Datastores: MongoDB, Redis, S3, Couchbase, DynamoDB'
- title: Work Experience
headings:
- title: Qualtrics
headings:
- title: Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
when: May 2022 - Present
what:
- Mentored entry and mid-level engineers on stability, clean code, and distributed systems.
- Hosted engineering book and white paper clubs for continuous improvement and cross-team experience sharing for 2 years.
- Recovered 98% of data lost in critical incident via coordinating cross team efforts and dissecting native database operation logs.
- title: Software Engineer II
when: Oct 2019 - May 2022
what:
- 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.
- 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.
- title: Software Engineer I
when: Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
what:
- Automated no-downtime system patching for 30 services and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and testable scripting framework.
- Raised backend service's availability to 99.99% and reduced hardware costs by 40% by selecting, training team on, and live migrating to a different datastore.
- title: Education
headings:
- title: Wake Forest University
when: Dec 2017
what:
- Master of Science in Computer Science - 3.88/4.00
- title: High Point University
when: Dec 2015
what:
- Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science - 3.91/4.00
- 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