DOGE Track

Nikhil Rajpal

Coder, age 30

An arrival to DOGE from Twitter, Nikhil Rajpal was a visible member in early Wrecker raids (including a foray into NOAA’s headquarter just outside of DC). Since mid-February, he has been exclusively based within the DOGE team at the Social Security Administration, which might explain the recent radio silence about his activities.

Likely aliases: OPM-06, SSA-08

Positions

Position Notes
OPM
Sources
OPM 1/24/25-7/02/25 [as OPM-06] Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
resigned from agency 7/02/25
DOGE
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OPM DOGE 1/27/25-6/09/25 detailed
6/09/25
NOAA
Source
OPM? NOAA 2/04/25 likely detailed
CFPB
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OPM CFPB 2/07/25-3/21/25 detailed
detail ended 3/21/25
SSA
Sources
OPM SSA 2/26/25 [as SSA-08] detailed (NTE 2/26/26)

Systems

System Notes
website
Source
Agency Website 1/28/25
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using
unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12»
Databricks
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Databricks 1/28/25
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data
admin access «listed as “OPM Data Azure Databricks Admin + NP / PRD Azure Subscriptions”»
USA Performance
Source
USA Performance 1/28/25-7/21/25
System tracking job performance of federal employees
admin access (never accessed) «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”»
USA Staffing
Source
USA Staffing 1/28/25
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees.
admin access «USA Staffing Core + Admin Portal - DEV/TST/STG/TRN/PRD»
eOPF
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eOPF 1/28/25-2/06/25
An system for government employees to access their personnel files electronically. These are updated when staff receive changes in salary or duty station or title, or receive performance reviews.
unknown access (never accessed)
GWES
Source
Government-Wide Email System 1/30/25-7/21/25
A new system developed by DOGE for sending out email to all federal employees and collecting responses. It was most famously used for the Fork in The Road email.
admin access (never accessed)
EHRI
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Enterprise Human Resources Integration 2/05/25-7/21/25
The Enterprise Human Resources Integration Data Warehouse (“EHRI”) collects human resources, payroll, and training data from several dozen sources outside of OPM, including other federal agencies.
admin access (last access 6/26/25) (never accessed)
Google
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Google Drive 2/05/25

read-write access granted by Agency Director

Events

Date Event
1/21/25
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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.
1/24/25
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Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at OPM
1/27/25
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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.
1/28/25
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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.”
2/04/25
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DOGE staffer Nikhil Rajpal reportedly enters NOAA facilities in Silver Spring, Maryland.
2/06/25
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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.
2/12/25
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In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
 Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
2/20/25
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Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group).
 Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Leland Dudek, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal
2/26/25
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One more unidentified DOGE staffer, SSA-08 (Nikhil Rajpal), is detailed to SSA from OPM.
3/12/25
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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)”
 Akash Bobba, Antonio Gracias, Aram Moghaddassi, Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Jon Koval, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling, Scott Coulter
3/13/25
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Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
 Akash Bobba, Antonio Gracias, Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Jon Koval, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling, Scott Coulter
3/21/25
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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.
3/27/25
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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.