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# Bree LaPointe
- <contact@blapointe.com>
- 336-701-6159
- [blapointe.com](https://blapointe.com)
- Provo, UT
## Experience
### <div><div>Senior Software Engineer, <i>Qualtrics</i></div></div> <div>May 2022 -- Present</div>
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### <div><div>Software Engineer II, <i>Qualtrics</i></div></div> <div>Oct 2019 -- May 2022</div>
- 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.
### <div><div>Software Engineer I, <i>Qualtrics</i></div></div> <div>Feb 2018 -- Oct 2019</div>
- 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.
## Projects
### <div>Disaster Recovery Champion</div> <div>Dec 2020 -- Present</div>
- Supported training runs with documentation, tools, and live support for all teams.
- Enforced continuous compliance for 17 database clusters with monitoring and alerting.
### <div>Software Engineering Book Club and White Paper Club Lead</div> <div>Jan 2019 -- Present</div>
### <div>MongoDB Virtual Team Member</div> <div>Jul 2018 -- Present</div>
- 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.
### <div>Publication: Arabidopsis thaliana computationally-generated next-state gene interaction models</div> <div>Jan 2017 -- Dec 2017</div>
- Improved research implementation efficiency by orders of magnitude by refactoring.
## Education
### <div><div>Master of Science, Computer Science, <i>Wake Forest University</i></div></div> <div>Jan 2016 -- Dec 2017</div>
- 3.88/4.00 GPA
### <div><div>Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, <i>High Point University</i></div></div> <div>Aug 2013 -- Dec 2015</div>
- 3.91/4.00 GPA
## Skills
- **Languages**: Golang, Python3, bash
- **Platforms**: MongoDB, Redis, Linux, AWS, Docker, Rundeck, Jenkins, Hashicorp stack