Nikhil Rajpal

Nikhil Rajpal and Cole Killian start screening all preexisting USDS staff with short interviews, asking them their views of DOGE and to name who they think are underperformers that should be fired.

Nikhil Rajpal starts as Expert at OPM.

Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at OPM

Nikhil Rajpal detailed from OPM to DOGE

Charles Ezell sends an email to OPM IT staff stating that OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) “urgently” need access to several sensitive systems within the agency.

Nikhil Rajpal is granted elevated access to 4 systems at OPM.

OPM grants OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) full administrative access to the systems USAJOBS, USA Staffing, USA Performance, eOPF, and EHRI. This access included “[c]ode read and write permissions.”

Nikhil Rajpal is granted elevated access to GWES at OPM.

Nikhil Rajpal detailed from OPM to NOAA

DOGE staffer Nikhil Rajpal reportedly enters NOAA facilities in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Nikhil Rajpal is granted elevated access to EHRI at OPM.

Nikhil Rajpal is granted elevated access to Google at NOAA.

A DOGE team consisting of Luke Farritor, Jeremy Lewin, Nikhil Rajpal, Gavin Kliger and Chris Young enters the CFPB headquarters and is given equipment and onboarded with a quick session on privacy policies in force at the CFPB.

Nikhil Rajpal detailed from OPM to CFPB

In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.

Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group).

Nikhil Rajpal detailed from OPM to SSA

One more unidentified DOGE staffer, SSA-08 (Nikhil Rajpal), is detailed to SSA from OPM.

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)”

Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA

Nikhil Rajpal ends detailed position at CFPB

Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB, reportedly because his detail has ended. In a later court filing, CFPB reveals that he was not granted any system access nor did he perform any actions during his time at the CFPB.

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 granted through the SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He asserts that DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.

Nikhil Rajpal ends detailed position at DOGE

Nikhil Rajpal leaves role as Expert at OPM (exits govt. service)

Nikhil Rajpal has elevated access revoked for 3 systems at OPM.