Thirty year old Nikhil Rajpal has found place in billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which has access to the US’ sensitive information at agencies like the Treasury Department.
The Indian-origin engineer Nikhil reportedly has key government access by representing DOGE’s task force at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Weeks after US president Donald Trump took office, Elon Musk has taken a deep dive into the federal administrative apparatus.. And this guy is a key part of it. According to multiple reports, the 40-member team of DOGE consists of another Indian-origin techie Akash Bobba apart from him.
Who Is Nikhil Rajpal?
According to a report by WIRED, Rajpal has working email addresses with both DOGE and the NOAA. He also appears in the NOAA’s public-facing employee directory, it said. He was reportedly given editor access to all NOAA Google sites on instructions of the acting commerce secretary, Jeremy Pelter.
Rajpal who refers to himself as ‘Nik’ has studied computer science and history at UC Berkeley, the report said. As an undergraduate, Rajpal was reportedly the leader of a libertarian-aligned student group advocating for “minimal government, free markets, sound money, non-intervention, and maximum individual liberty.”
