Kunal is a senior software engineer at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). He works on improving the security and robustness of SecureDrop to better protect both journalists and whistleblowers. He previously worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he served as a core developer for MediaWiki, among other roles. He's a strong believer in the free knowledge and free software movements, spending his free time editing Wikipedia and contributing to the Debian Project. Kunal's educational background is in journalism, having earned degrees from De Anza College and San José State University.
A new SecureDrop Inbox will be released in the next few weeks, the result of work begun by the team in July 2025 to redesign how journalists process submissions. SecureDrop Workstation users will receive it automatically during a system update.
If the global encyclopedia is going to thrive for the next 25 years, we must maintain and expand First Amendment protections
SecureDrop team member Kunal Mehta demo’d the SecureDrop Workstation at RightsCon 2025 on Feb. 25. You can watch a recording of the talk (also see below); the slides (PDF) are also available.In the demo, Mehta explained the multiyear project to provide better and more streamlined tools for journalists to …
