Mark LaPointe

Fort Lauderdale, FL | Dallas, TX | Detroit, MI | Windsor, ON | Toronto, ON · mark@-remove-mark-lapointe.com

Innovative, Inspirational, and Creative Leader

HIGH-PERFORMANCE APPLICATIONS | SOFTWARE & SAAS SOLUTIONS | FULL LIFE CYCLE CONFIGURATION

Engineering leader valued for driving quality and consistency throughout all phases of software development projects. Partner with developers, analysts, QA, and support engineers throughout product life cycle to create cutting-edge engineering solutions, optimizing code and producing user-friendly, scalable, and bug-free software.

Extensive expertise in large system architecture development and administration as well as network design, configuration, and automation. Focus on achieving bottom-line results while formulating and implementing advanced, technologically intricate solutions to meet a wide array of industry problems.

SELECT CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Design cybersecurity systems and services to monitor, detect, simulate, and mitigate threats
  • Create and enrich reporting and monitoring tools
  • Apply cutting-edge technologies to optimize operational responses
  • Integrated a plant-wide factory visualization and monitoring systems
  • Save time and money with process automation – cut manual tasks 40% and slashed support costs 50%

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SKILLS

  • Solutions Engineering, Testing, & Optimization
  • SDLC Strategy & Leadership
  • Mobile & Cloud Solutions
  • Data-Driven Applications
  • Reliability & Scalability, Automation
  • Enterprise Software Development
  • Global Project Management
  • Security & Manufacturing Operations

Technical Proficiencies

Artificial Intelligence
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LangSmith
  • Ollama
  • Amazon Blackrock
  • Google Gemini
  • Stable Diffusion
  • ComfyUI
  • Google MediaPipe
  • RAG Tooling
Architecture
  • IPv4
  • IPv6 (Look for this sites' AAAA)
  • DNS
  • Firewalls
  • VPNs
  • Routers
  • BGP
  • OSPF
  • Load Balancing
  • Microservices
  • RESTful APIs
  • SaaS
  • PaaS
  • IaaS
  • Cisco
  • Palo Alto
  • Mikrotik
  • pfSense
  • Pulse Secure VPN
  • OpenVPN
  • Rabbit AMQP
  • Kafka
Programming Languages
  • Java
  • JEE
  • J2EE
  • Python
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Go
  • Typescript
  • NodeJS
  • JavaScript
  • ECMAScript
  • C
  • C++
  • Visual Basic 6
  • Visual Studio .Net
  • BASIC
  • Turing
  • Pascal
  • Haskell
  • Miranda
  • Bash
  • CSH
  • KORN
  • batch
Tooling
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Subversion
  • ANT
  • Maven
  • Make
  • NPM
  • Jenkins
  • Eclipse
  • Code
  • GCC
  • LLVM
  • Visual Paradigim
  • Bitbucket
  • NGINX
  • Apache HTTPD
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Snort
  • Axis 2
  • Apache Commons
Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • Centos
  • RedHat
  • FreeBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • NetBSD
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Solaris
  • IRIX
  • AIX
Administration
  • Atlassian
  • JIRA
  • Monday
  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • ERD
  • UML
Data Management
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • Neo4j
  • MemSQL
  • ElasticSearch
  • Splunk
  • RedisDB
  • Apache Spark
  • Cassandra
  • Splunk
Containers and Cloud
  • BOSH
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Kubernetes
  • LXC
  • Nexus 3
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • bhyve
  • FreeBSD Jails
  • FreeNAS
  • VMWare
  • VMWare vSphere
  • VMWare ESXi
  • VMWare vCenter
  • Xen
  • XCP-NG
  • Proxmox
  • Terraform
  • Chef
Frameworks and Libraries
  • Tailwind
  • NextJS
  • jQuery
  • jUnit
  • Mocha
  • Spring
  • Angular
  • ActiveX
  • Mozilla Browser Plugin Framework
  • ActivPlant Foundations SDK
Markup Languages, Formatting, and Styling
  • Markdown
  • RAML
  • XML
  • XSLT
  • JSON
  • YML
  • HTML
  • LD JSON
  • CSS
  • Jade
  • Pug

Experience

PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER

ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists)
Miami FL, USA

Kubernetes/Docker: Designed and deployed a multi-node Kubernetes cluster, enabling scalable product offerings to support a growing active user base effectively.

AI APIs: Leveraged large language models (LLMs) and relevant APIs to develop an AI chatbot backend service, incorporating traceability for seamless management of user Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) requests.

Data Processing: Engineered Python scripts to automate key rotation processes and resolve data processing issues, enhancing operational efficiency by X% (insert specific metrics if available).

Messaging Architecture: Developed custom containers for a message-driven service-oriented architecture, utilizing PAXOS and RAFT algorithms to efficiently manage scheduled tasks and user requests for reports.

Product Support: Proactively maintained, updated, and expanded existing product offerings, ensuring alignment with user needs and market trends.

Security Enhancements: Implemented a dictionary-based validation solution using regular expressions, successfully mitigating over 90% of security vulnerabilities identified in third-party testing by Booz Allen.

2020 - Present

PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER

REDWOLF SECURITY
Toronto ON, Canada

A next-generation platform trusted by hundreds of Fortune 2000 companies to:

  • Validate defense performance
  • Improve alerting and detection of events
  • Calibrate mitigation systems
  • Optimize operational responses
  • Confirm SLAs and controls.
Improve Clients’ Cyber Defenses By:
  • Designing systems and services to simulate threats
  • Monitoring customer sites for security and performance concerns
  • Recommending improvements to management
Design and integrate new core framework features used for:
  • Scanning
  • Monitoring
  • Reporting on customer systems
    • Features could include:
      • New testing capabilities
      • New methods to extend the framework to be integrated into projects
      • Expanding the capability to discover to report new issues and events.
  • Create systems and services in the form of virtual machines and docker containers that generate attack traffic with the goal of reporting on what has been discovered.

2019 - 2020

SENIOR APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE ENGINEER

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC. ( Prolexic Technoligies, Acquired in 2014 )
Fort Lauderdale FL, USA

A global content delivery network, cybersecurity, and cloud service company

  • Providing web and internet security services for some of the world’s largest corporations (Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc.). On dozens of projects served as :
    • Project Manager
    • Lead software engineer and/or team member

Adhered to high-quality development standards while delivering technology solutions on-time and on-budget

Employed cutting-edge technologies to collaborate on the following projects:

HTTP Anomaly Detection
  • Statistically analyzed web traffic to find patterns that do not conform to expected behavior to identify malicious actors.
Real Browser Verification
  • Designed a system to analyze web client traffic to determine if a client was using a real web browser and to block the client if it did not pass validation.
Cluster Commander
  • Maintained a system to manage customers and their configurations on the network.
Statistical Graphing System
  • Generated graphs to identify issues on the network, anticipate attacks, and start investigations when appropriate.
Customer Portals
  • Enabled customers to view their network, services, contact information, etc.
Namespace / Network Object Mapping and Keyspace Validation
  • Created standardized descriptions of all objects utilized to have built in validation based on an attribute and class dictionary.
FBM - Flow Based Monitoring
  • Statistically analyzed the traffic flowing through enterprise routers to detect malicious patterns.
Talaria - Dynamic Scrubbing Center Routing
  • Designed systems to dynamically redirect traffic flow to alternate data centers to manage traffic.

2007 - 2019

SENIOR SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST

DATAREALM INC.
Windsor ON, Canada

A solution provider to manufacturers in North America. Solves a wide range of complex client issues including controls engineering, automation of information systems, and software development.

  • Devised and integrated solutions to resolve production problems, resulting in increased efficiency and productivity, working independently and collaboratively with team of 12.
  • Successfully trained clients and employees and implemented software solutions.
  • Developed and implemented a real-time production system solution for Ford Motor Company to replace a VAX based system known as MMS for 700+ machines.
  • Integrated a plant-wide factory visualization and monitoring system.
  • Promoted lean manufacturing methodologies and increased efficiency by creating applications that allow OPC services to communicate with PLCs’ and read values, to capture events in order to present in a report or visually in real time.
  • Assisted in modernizing antiquated VAX based processes known as POSMON and MMS by developing conversion tools for each system to extract essential information to automatically configure the replacement system.
  • Provided extensive support on a project to monitor tool life called TOOLMON.
  • Created an API interface for Flow International, a DLL that acts as an OPC client to a PLC and feeds information to control water-jet-based CNC machines.
  • Created a web-based reporting package for Activplant using XML transformation to produce the reports.

2004 - 2007

Education

University of Windsor

Bachelor of Computer Science
1999 - 2004

Hurricane Electric

IPv6 Certification - Sage
2019

Erion

Implementing and Securing IPv6 for Developers
2013

BlackHat Training

The Shellcode Lab
2013

BlackHat Training

Mitigating DDoS Attacks by Cisco Systems
2010

BlackHat Training

Tactical VoIP
2008

Activplant Training

Activplant Foundation SDK
2005
Nifty tech tag lists from Wouter Beeftink