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Achievement

One of the things I'm most proud of is the long-term impact I had while working at the NSA -- organizationally, culturally, and pedagogically. When I arrived there and began working as an analyst, the civilian software engineers would build tools for analysts, and those active-duty analysts would use those tools to do their work. Because of cultural differences between federal civilians and military personnel and the way the engineering and analytics are treated as orthogonal to one-another organizationally, there was very little communication between the two teams.

Once I started working as part of the engineering team, I helped bridge that gap in communication between engineering and analysts. In fact, that collaboration was so successful, NSA Hawaii made it a point to create a new role within engineering specifically for a military analyst to work as a software developer and began creating a training pipeline for the role as I was leaving.

Recent book and why one should read it

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async def configure_graphql(app):
    """
    Since our resolvers depend on the app's db connection, this
    co-routine must execute after that part of the application
    is configured
    """
    connection = app['connection']


    class Query(g.ObjectType):

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import graphene as g
from graphql.execution.executors.asyncio import AsyncioExecutor



class Author(g.ObjectType):
    """This is a human being."""
    id = g.Int(description='The primary key in the database')
    first_name = g.String()
    last_name = g.String()

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{
  authors(limit: 3) {
    id
    first_name
    last_name
    age
  }
}

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[
    {
        "age": 26,
        "first_name": "Willene",
        "id": 1,
        "last_name": "Whitaker"
    },
    {
        "age": 52,
        "first_name": "Cedric",

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async def authors(request):
    """Return json response of authors based on query params."""
    connection = request.app['connection']

    with log_request(request):

        # parse values from query params

        first_name = request.query.get('first_name')
        last_name = request.query.get('last_name')

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async def author(request):
    """Return a single author for a given id."""

    connection = request.app['connection']

    with log_request(request):
        try:
            
            # when using co-routines, it's important that each co-routine be non-blocking
            # meaning no individual action will take a long amount of time, preventing

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[
    {
        "first_name": "Amy",
        "last_name: "Jones",
        "age": 34,
    } ...
]

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[
    {
        "first_name": "Amy",
        "last_name: "Jones",
        "age": 34,
        "books": [{...}]
    } ...
]