Aram Moghaddassi

Aram Moghaddassi is an American engineer who worked in the United States Federal Government within the Department of Government Efficiency and as Chief Information Officer of the Social Security Administration. He previously worked at Neuralink, X Corp (formerly Twitter), and XAI (company).

Aram Moghaddassi
Born	February 1999 (age 26)
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Occupation	Engineer
Employers	Neuralink X Corp. xAI (company) Department of Government Efficiency Social Security Administration

Early life and education

Moghaddassi was raised in Syosset, New York and graduated from Syosset High School in 2017. During high school, he competed in the Lincoln–Douglas debate format and was the 2017 New York State varsity champion ^[1].

In 2021, Moghaddassi graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Applied Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley. He was as an undergraduate researcher in Berkeley's Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab under Professor Anne Collins and was a summer research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute where he worked on the Hopfield Network^[2][3].

Career

Elon Musk companies

In January 2021, Moghaddassi began working at Neuralink. He is listed as an inventor on a 2022 patent for "Neural Signal Compression for Brain-Machine Interface" filed by Neuralink ^[4].

In December 2022, Moghaddassi joined Twitter following the Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk ^[5]. During this period, Twitter underwent a major restructure, performing an 80% reduction in force, decommissioning one of three data centers, open sourcing "the algorithm", and changing major policy positions on content moderation ^[6][7][8]. In March 2025, it was reported he was in the xAI (company) org chart as an "xAI Partner" ^[9].

Federal Government

In February 2025, it was reported that Moghaddassi was part of a four person team that the Department of Government Efficiency planned to install at the Treasury Department ^[10]. This team used payment systems at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service to block foreign aid payments issued by USAID, claiming these payments violated an executive order to pause all US foreign assistance despite push back from career officials ^[11]. During this period, DOGE broadly dismantled USAID: 83% of programs and nearly all employees were terminated with remaining functions moved into the Department of State ^[12][13].

In March 2025, Moghaddassi was interviewed by Bret Baier on Fox News alongside Elon Musk and six other DOGE staffers (including Steve Davis (executive), Joe Gebbia, and Tom Krause (business executive)). He spoke about modernizing IT systems, reducing fraud, and improving customer experience at the Social Security Administration ^[14].

In April 2025, it was reported Moghaddassi was working at the Department of Homeland Security on the "DOGE Immigration Task Force" lead by Antonio Gracias ^[15]. Trump administration officials said the team worked on revoking parole and reengineering the asylum adjudication process. Moghaddassi had access to sensitive IT systems at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services where DOGE worked on the SAVE service for verifying benefit and voter eligibility ^[16][17]. DOGE was credited in several criminal fraud investigations and indictments from the US Department of Justice ^[18][19]. Moghaddassi was specifically linked to terminating the Social Security Numbers of ~6,300 parolees who either have criminal records or are on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist ^[20][21]. During this period, SSA also paused issuing new SSNs through the Enumeration Beyond Entry system amid claims from Gracias that the system was being abused by large numbers of parolees and asylum seekers ^[22][23]. This likely caused delays to SSN issuance and more traffic to field offices ^[24].

Moghaddassi also held roles at the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Small Business Administration with access to sensitive IT systems for labor visas, unemployment insurance, Medicare/Medicaid, SBA loans, and grants/contracts management ^{[25][26][27][28][29]}. Moghaddassi and Antonio Gracias were named (along with eight other unnamed DOGE employees) in a lawsuit from labor unions (including AFL-CIO) regarding DOGE's access to IT systems at the Social Security Administration. In March 2025, the plaintiffs were granted a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE's access, but this decision was overturned in June by the Supreme Court of the United States and DOGE was granted full access to SSA systems ^[30][31][32].

In June 2025, Moghaddassi was formally appointed to be Chief Information Officer at the Social Security Administration ^[33][34]. Following his appointment, he was seen at SSA's headquarters with Edward Coristine, who had also taken a position with SSA ^[35]. In August 2025, Moghaddassi was included in a whistleblower complaint which alleges DOGE uploaded the Numident database to an insecure cloud server ^[36]. SSA commissioner Frank Bisignano denied these allegations in a public letter to the chair of Senate Finance Committee Mike Crapo ^[37]. In a separate letter sent to the whistleblower's lawyers, SSA's General Counsel also denied their allegations and further complained that unredacted exhibits from the whistleblower complaint were irresponsibly uploaded on the internet ^[38].

See also

• Network of the Department of Government Efficiency
• Elon Musk
• Antonio Gracias
• Tom Krause (business executive)
• Joe Gebbia
• Steve Davis (executive)
• Edward Coristine