Andi Roddy, Chief of the Nuclear Command and Control Systems Cybersecurity Group at the National Security Agency (NSA), has spent her entire professional career with the agency. Her interest was sparked after hearing stories from her grandfather who had worked for the precursor agency to the NSA during World War II. Though he never actually talked about the specifics of what he did there, he was proud of his work and encouraged her to consider joining the agency after she graduated college with her biomedical engineering degree.
“He was so proud of his work and the role NSA had in winning World War II, and he thought it was a great place for a technical person like me. Once I got here, I discovered he was really right,” she says.