diff --git a/pages/account/onboarding/index.js b/pages/account/onboarding/index.js
index 3c5542cd941..c6727d19a91 100644
--- a/pages/account/onboarding/index.js
+++ b/pages/account/onboarding/index.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { authOptions } from "../../api/auth/[...nextauth]";
 import { getServerSession } from "next-auth/next";
 import { useRouter } from "next/router";
 import { useSession } from "next-auth/react";
+import { useState } from "react";
 import {
   FaGithub,
   FaLink,
@@ -10,8 +11,10 @@ import {
   FaTent,
   FaCertificate,
   FaArrowUpRightFromSquare,
+  FaTriangleExclamation,
 } from "react-icons/fa6";
 
+import { clientEnv } from "@config/schemas/clientSchema";
 import logger from "@config/logger";
 import PageHead from "@components/PageHead";
 import Page from "@components/Page";
@@ -19,6 +22,7 @@ import { getUserApi } from "pages/api/profiles/[username]";
 import { PROJECT_NAME } from "@constants/index";
 import Card from "@components/Card";
 import Button from "@components/Button";
+import Modal from "@components/Modal";
 import Navigation from "@components/account/manage/Navigation";
 import ProgressBar from "@components/statistics/ProgressBar";
 import Alert from "@components/Alert";
@@ -46,6 +50,7 @@ export async function getServerSideProps(context) {
     "testimonials",
     "events",
     "repos",
+    "delete"
   ];
   let progress = {
     percentage: 0,
@@ -62,11 +67,11 @@ export async function getServerSideProps(context) {
   ).toFixed(0);
 
   return {
-    props: { profile, progress },
+    props: { profile, progress, BASE_URL: clientEnv.NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL },
   };
 }
 
-export default function Onboarding({ profile, progress }) {
+export default function Onboarding({ profile, progress, BASE_URL }) {
   const router = useRouter();
   const { data: session } = useSession();
   if (typeof window !== "undefined" && window.localStorage) {
@@ -82,6 +87,7 @@ export default function Onboarding({ profile, progress }) {
       router.push("/api/stripe");
     }
   }
+  const [showModal, setShowModal] = useState(false);
 
   const cards = [
     {
@@ -144,12 +150,32 @@ export default function Onboarding({ profile, progress }) {
       },
       isEdit: profile.milestones && profile.milestones.length > 0,
     },
+    {
+      icon: FaTriangleExclamation,
+      title: "Delete Account",
+      description: "Delete your account",
+      button: {
+        name: "Delete Account",
+      },
+      click: true,
+    },
   ];
 
   const alerts = {
     premium: "You are now a premium user!",
     cancel: "You cancelled your subscription.",
   };
+
+  //TODO move this?
+  const deleteLinks = async () => {
+    await fetch(`${BASE_URL}/api/account/manage/delete/${profile.username}`, {
+      method: "DELETE",
+      headers: {
+        "Content-Type": "application/json",
+      },
+    });
+  }
+    
   return (
     <>
       <PageHead
@@ -198,17 +224,42 @@ export default function Onboarding({ profile, progress }) {
         >
           {cards.map((card) => (
             <li key={card.title}>
+              {card.click ?
+              <div className="flex flex-col items-center border-2 h-[14rem] overflow-hidden rounded-lg shadow-lg transition duration-350 p-4 gap-3  duration-500 ease-in-out hover:border-tertiary-medium border-tertiary-medium">
+              <div className="flex gap-4 content-center items-center justify-items-start grow">
+                  <card.icon className="h-16 w-16" />
+                  <h2 className="text-xl font-bold">{card.title}</h2>
+                </div>
+                <p>{card.description}</p>
+                <Button onClick={() => setShowModal(true)}>Delete Account</Button>
+                
+            <Modal
+            show={showModal}
+            setShow={setShowModal}
+          >
+            {/* TODO: on click, show a indicator deltion is happening - success message after */}
+            <div className="mt-10 flex flex-col sm:flex-row items-center justify-center gap-6 sm:mx-24">
+              <Button onClick={() => deleteLinks()}>
+                Delete my Account
+              </Button>
+              <Button onClick={() => setShowModal(false)}>Go Back</Button>
+            </div>
+            <p className="mx-auto mt-6 max-w-xl text-lg leading-8 text-center text-primary-medium dark:text-primary-low mb-4">Warning! This cannot be reversed once you click Delete.</p>
+          </Modal>
+        
+                </div>
+                :
               <Card href={card.button.href} active={!card.isEdit}>
                 <div className="flex gap-4 content-center items-center justify-items-start grow">
                   <card.icon className="h-16 w-16" />
                   <h2 className="text-xl font-bold">{card.title}</h2>
                 </div>
                 <p>{card.description}</p>
-                {card.isEdit && <Button>Edit</Button>}
-                {!card.isEdit && (
-                  <Button primary={true}>+ {card.button.name}</Button>
-                )}
+                {card.isEdit ? <Button>Edit</Button>
+                : <Button primary={true}>+ {card.button.name}</Button>
+                }
               </Card>
+}
             </li>
           ))}
         </ul>
diff --git a/pages/api/account/manage/delete/[[...data]].js b/pages/api/account/manage/delete/[[...data]].js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..75779fb6175
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pages/api/account/manage/delete/[[...data]].js
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import { authOptions } from "../../../auth/[...nextauth]";
+import { getServerSession } from "next-auth/next";
+
+import connectMongo from "@config/mongo";
+//import logger from "@config/logger";
+import { Link } from "@models/index";
+import fs from 'fs';
+
+export default async function handler(req, res) {
+  const session = await getServerSession(req, res, authOptions);
+  const username = session.username;
+
+  if (!["DELETE"].includes(req.method)) {
+    return res.status(400).json({
+      error: "Invalid request: DELETE required",
+    });
+  }
+
+  const { data } = req.query;
+  const context = { req, res };
+
+  let link = {};
+  
+  if (req.method === "DELETE") {
+    link = await deleteLinkApi(context, username, data[0]);
+  }
+  
+  if (link.error) {
+    return res.status(400).json({ message: link.error });
+  }
+
+  return res.status(200).json(link);
+}
+
+
+  export async function deleteLinkApi(context, username) {
+    await connectMongo();
+   // const log = logger.child({ username });
+  
+    // delete link
+    try {
+      await Link.deleteMany({ username: username });
+    } catch (e) {
+      const error = `failed to delete links from profile for username: ${username}`;
+      //log.error(e, error);
+      return { error };
+    }
+    checkJsonProfile(username)
+    return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify({}));
+  }
+
+  //check for json version, delete if exists
+  async function checkJsonProfile(username){
+    if(fs.existsSync(`./data/${username}.json`)){
+    try {
+      
+        console.log("found file" + username)
+        fs.unlinkSync(`./data/${username}.json`)
+    
+    } catch (e) {
+      const error = `failed to delete json profile for username: ${username}`;
+      //log.error(e, error);
+      return { error };
+    }
+
+    return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify({}));
+  }else{
+    console.log(`no json profile`)
+    return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify({}));
+  }
+  }
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