Bree LaPointe Download as PDF Senior Software Engineer hello@breel.dev Provo, UT linkedin.com/in/breeldev Work Experience Render Senior Software Engineer May 2025 - Present • Stabilized automated management, performance tuning, and point-in-time-recovery infrastructure of tens of thousands of PostgreSQL databases. Software Engineer Dec 2023 - May 2025 • Crafted PostgreSQL low-downtime migrations and in-place major version upgrades. Qualtrics Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead May 2022 - Dec 2023 • Optimized a Go application to increase consumption rate from Kafka by 340%, costing half the engineering effort of the proposed rewrite. • 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. Software Engineer II Oct 2019 - May 2022 • Automated infrastructure patching for 30 microservices and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and testable Bash script framework. Software Engineer I Feb 2018 - Oct 2019 • 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. Education Wake Forest University Master of Science in Computer Science - 3.88/4.00 GPA Skills • Languages: Go (Golang), Bash, Python3 • Platforms: Kubernetes, Temporal, Hashicorp, Linux/Unix, AWS, REST, Microservices • Datastores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, S3, Couchbase, DynamoDB