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Who is Akash Bobba on Elon Musk's DOGE team?

The Indian-origin techie is among the six young engineers who have been roped in for Donald Trump's ambitious project in the US
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Indian-origin techie Akash Bobba is among the six young engineers who have been roped in for an ambitious project in the US, DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), which is headed by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

United States President Donald Trump had tapped Musk to lead this project to "modernise federal technology and software to maximise governmental efficiency and productivity".

Apart from 22-year-old Bobba – who is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley -- Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger and Ethan Shaotran are also part of the team.

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Bobba was an investment engineering intern at the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund as of last spring and was previously an intern at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Thiel’s Palantir Technologies, according to a report by WIRED.

These six young engineers are said to be playing critical roles in DOGE. As they have little to no government experience, they are also facing social media trolling.

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As a photo of four of these young engineers went viral on social media, people questioned their capabilities and experience in handling government affairs.

Replying to one such comment on X, Charis Zhang, who also studied at UC, Berkeley, praised Bobba saying, he “trusted him with everything I own". Zhang said he accidentally deleted their codebase two days before a deadline at the university, but Akash “just stared at the screen, shrugged, and rewrote everything from scratch in one night." Another user said Bobba was “one of the smartest dudes I have met".

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