Akash Bobba
Wrecker
, coder, age 21
Tech Industry Links: Palantir
Identified early in media reports as one of six engineers picked on Elon Musk’s team, Akash Bobba was a prolific wrecker from the start, including an unusual detailing document where we as assigned to OPM, Education and Social Security simultaneously. Initially, he served as a volunteer, but he been on the payroll at the Social Security Administration since early February, where has been a trusted lieutenant of Mike Russo.
Positions
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1/20
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[as OPM-03] appointed Expert, Office of the Director (NTE 2025-07-18, ED-00, excepted, volunteer) | |
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2/03
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[as ED-01] detail (NTE 2026-02-12) | |
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2/03
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[as OPM-03] detail | |
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2/09
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[as SSA-01] appointed Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer (NTE 2026-02-08, ED-00, $90,025) |
Systems
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website
1/20
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1/20 | Agency Website
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using (OPM) unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» court doc |
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USA Performance
1/20
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1/20 | USA Performance
System tracking job performance of federal employees (OPM) unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”» |
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website
1/28
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1/28 | Agency Website
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using (OPM) unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» court doc |
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NUMIDENT
2/10
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2/10 | Numerical Identification System
NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody (SSA) read access granted by CIO Mike Russo court doc |
Events
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1/20
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1/20
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1/28
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Directory:
Wired Magazine provides an early listing of which Musk-affiliated DOGE staff now have positions at OPM
(fuzz: didn’t name Coristine or Bobba bc of their ages, but later confirmed as them)
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2/03
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Onboard:
Unidentified employee SSA-01 (Akash Bobba) starts working at the SSA with the title of Expert and an annual salary of $90,025.
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2/03
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Onboard:
Mike Russo officially joins the agency as its new CIO, requests Akash Bobba to join the agency (but he has issues with his background check)
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2/08
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Access:
NBC News reports that Akash Bobba and Ethan Shaotran have admin access to email and had also accessed the backend admin for the Department of Education website.
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2/10
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Report:
Mike Russo summons Leland Dudek to his office and asks him to explain discrepancies cited by Musk. Leland convened a team of dozens of SSA engineers who reviewed data from the Treasury department. They carefully documented fallacies in DOGE’s reasoning in a memo presented to Russo. Mike Russo reportedly declared that DOGE would not trust career civil servants and demanded that Akash Bobba do his own analysis.
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2/10
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Disruption:
Mike Russo, DOGE chief of staff Steve Davis both demand that Akash Bobba be onboarded before midnight.
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2/12
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Directory:
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time in their list of officials to FOIA communications for
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2/15
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Disruption:
Frustrated with the questions and concerns about technical issues with the sandbox NUMIDENT data, Mike Russo goes to complain to the chief CIO in the office of the OMB
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2/15
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3/12
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Directory:
In a sworn declaration, Florence Felix-Lawson notes “the SSA DOGE Team currently consists of ten SSA employees: four SSA special government employees (Employees 1, 4, 6, and 9) and six detailees to SSA from other government agencies and offices (Employees 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10)”
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3/13
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Directory:
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/27
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Access:
In a sworn declaration, Leland Dudek justifies access to PII in SSA records for SSA-01 (Akash Bobba), SSA-05 (Cole Killian), SSA-08 (Nikhil Rajpal) and SSA-09 (Payton Rehling) on the DOGE team. This access is through the SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He claims DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.
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4/08
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Directory:
A partial copy of the GSA’s A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel listed as based in GSA
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