Saikat Chakrabarti

Saikat Chakrabarti (born January 12, 1986) is a political advisor and software engineer. He was formerly chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the U.S. representative from New York's 14th congressional district representing portions of The Bronx and Queens in New York City. On August 2, 2019, he left Ocasio-Cortez's office to run New Consensus, a group promoting the Green New Deal. Early life and education Chakrabarti was born in 1986 and raised in an Indian Bengali Hindu family in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended Harvard University, graduating in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in computer science. Career After college, Chakrabarti worked on Wall Street followed by six years in Silicon Valley at a number of startups. Chakrabarti co-founded a web design company called Mockingbird and served as a founding engineer at the payments processing company Stripe.