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Two Engineers Build a Platform Opening Government Careers to Students

PublicPath helps students and early-career candidates discover, navigate, and land roles from city hall to Capitol Hill. Anees Amjad co-founded it and worked on its API ingestion and data-quality workflows.

PublicPath · Co-founder, Engineering and Data

PublicPath is a nonprofit platform with a simple aim: helping students and early-career candidates discover, navigate, and land roles in government, from city hall to Capitol Hill.

Anees Amjad, co-founder for engineering and data, built the platform as one of its two engineers, working on API ingestion and data-quality workflows.

In brief

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About the editor

I’m Anees Amjad, a graduate student in Computational Analysis and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. My work spans AI workflows, public-sector software, and applied machine learning.