Akash Bobba

Wrecker, age 21

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.

Likely aliases: ED-01, OPM-03, SSA-01

Positions

Position Notes
1/20-
[as OPM-03] appointed Expert, Office of the Director (NTE 2025-07-18, ED-00, excepted, volunteer) docs: directory, onboard
2/03-
[as ED-01] detail (NTE 2026-02-12) docs: MOU
2/03-
[as OPM-03] detail docs: MOU
2/09-
[as SSA-01] appointed Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer (NTE 2026-02-08, ED-00, $90,025) docs: onboard

Systems

System Details
website
1/20-
Agency Website
unknown access [listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12]
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using court doc
USA Perf
1/20-
USA Performance
unknown access [system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”]
System tracking job performance of federal employees
website
1/28-
Agency Website
unknown access [listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12]
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using court doc
NUMIDENT
2/10-
NUMIDENT files
read access granted by CIO Mike Russo
NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody court doc

Events

Date Event
1/20
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM within the Director's office
1/28
Wired Magazine provides an early listing of which Musk-affiliated DOGE staff now have positions at OPM  [didn’t name Coristine or Bobba bc of their ages, but later confirmed as them]
2/03
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)
2/08
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.
2/10
Mike Russo, DOGE chief of staff Steve Davis both demand that Akash Bobba be onboarded before midnight.
2/12
2/15
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
2/15
SSA Staff express concern to Acting Commissioner King that Bobba is accessing information remotely and in an insecure location (the OPM)
3/12
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)"
3/13
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
3/27
In a sworn declaration, Leland Dudek justifies access to PII in SSA records for Employee 1, Employee 5, Employee 8 and Employee 9 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.
4/08
A partial copy of the GSA's A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel listed as based in GSA