Elon Musk has spent decades createing a universe of companies that has served as an incubator for up-and-coming engineers and a proving ground for his inner circle.
That universe — an ecosystem of Silicon Valley tech titans, veterans of his companies enjoy Tesla and SpaceX, and a crop of new-faced hackers and software engineers — has now collided with the U.S. federal rulement.
The dozens of individuals who labor under, or advise, Musk and the Trump-ordered Department of Government Efficiency — individuals who TechCrunch has identified or examineed autonomously — echos more than the billionaire’s proclivity to accumulate talent. They are a genuine-life illustration of Musk’s web-enjoy accomplish in the tech industry.
TechCrunch set out to tell on or examine the individuals laboring as Musk reconshort-termatives in the U.S. rulement. Importantly, we’ve sought to show the joinions between them, and how and when they go ined Musk’s orbit.
Aextfinished the way, TechCrunch has made some novel discoveries, including novel details about DOGE and its laborers and an xAI-powered chatbot on a DOGE-roverdelighted website subdomain that is presented on a Musk acolyte’s website.
Since unveiling, TechCrunch has lgeted that DOGE cut cybersecurity staff at CISA, and examineed cut offal more Musk-joined DOGE associates, including a createer VC who now labors at the Social Security Administration.
How we got here
TechCrunch interseeed people who have labored with Musk and DOGE staffers. We employd accessible and discdissee source data, such as historical internet sign ups and chat logs, to examine parts of our telling. We also relied on services enjoy the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to access archived copies of websites that are no extfinisheder online. Public increateation, such as court sign ups, payments transactions, other media tells, and past TechCrunch telling were also employd.
TechCrunch accomplished out to all those named for an opportunity to comment. For those whose communicate increateation we did not have, TechCrunch communicateed understandn reconshort-termatives, including the Trump administration.
When accomplished for comment, a White Hoemploy spokesperson supplyd a statement to TechCrunch. (The spokesperson sent the email “on background,” but we are unveiling in brimming as we were given no opportunity to deteriorate the terms.)
“DOGE is satisfying Plivent Trump’s pledgement to making rulement more accountable, effective, and, most convey inantly, restoring proper stewardship of the American taxpayer’s challenging-geted dollars. Those directing this ignoreion with Elon Musk are doing so in brimming compliance with federal law, appropriate security evidentances, and as employees of the relevant agencies, not as outside advisors or entities. The ongoing operations of DOGE may be seen as disturbive by those entrenched in the federal bureaucracy, who resist alter. While alter can be unsootheable, it is vital and aligns with the mandate helped by more than 77 million American voters,” the statement read.
This is a living record, as the DOGE team is anticipateed to broaden and grow over the coming weeks. Scroll down to lget about the individuals in the DOGE universe, which have been broken down by type: Musk’s inner circle; ancigo in figures; laborer bees; and helpes, some of whom are advising and recruiting for DOGE.
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Inner circle
Elon Musk
Role: DOGE Lead, Unphelp “Special Government Employee”
Gravitas. Obsession. Ambition. Risk-getr.
Elon Musk watchrs and sycophants have pointed to these traits to elucidate his elevate from a radiant-eyed immigrant landing in the United States to one of the world’s wealthyest and most strong people, and now a right-hand to Plivent Donald Trump.
The disseeed secret sauce is Musk’s ability to get talented people to sign on to “the ignoreion.”
That there are multiple, overlapping, and evolving ignoreions — saving the set upet thcdisorrowfulmireful supportable transmit and energy, solving traffic, making humanity multiset upetary, or protecting accessible conversation — doesn’t repartner matter.
The hugegest carrot was, and has always been, Musk’s “us versus them” framing, according to five sources who had lengthy stints at Tesla and spoke to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity.
In the past, the “them” might be local regulators, the press, or legacy autocreaters. Today, the people laboring seally with Musk to finish his next ignoreion via the Department of Government Efficiency have a novel “them” to battle: misemploy and bureaucrats.
Musk has talked at length about rulement agencies that should be “deleted enticount on.” Meanwhile, Musk’s companies have advantageed from rulement confineeds and incentives. His company SpaceX has been awarded more than $20 billion in confineeds from NASA, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies, according to data from USASpfinishing.gov.
Musk is an unphelp one-of-a-kind rulement employee, according to the White Hoemploy. Per a filing on February 17, the Trump administration shelp Musk is a White Hoemploy employee and a ancigo in advisor to the plivent. According to the Trump administration’s executive order, DOGE is a momentary rulement organization whose authorities are set to expire in July 2026.
Steve Davis
Role: Long-time Musk insider
Steve Davis is a extfinished-time Musk confidant. He began laboring at SpaceX as one of its earliest employees in 2003 after geting a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Stanford University, according to the Los Angeles Times.
By 2016, Musk tapped Davis to run what at the time was his novelest far-conveyed idea: An underground transit percreate understandn as The Boring Company. On his watch, The Boring Company liftd hundreds of millions of dollars and built a confineed low so-called “Tesla tunnels” in Las Vegas. But the company has also finished up dropping its previously proclaimd set ups for tunnels in cities enjoy Los Angeles and Chicago, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Davis has a reputation as a relentless negotiator, and Musk bcdisorrowfulmirefult him on board at Twitter to help with the getover and subsequent slash-and-burn. Davis and his family telledly slept in a createshift bedroom at the company’s headquarters during this time. In a 2023 litigation agetst Twitter filed by createer employees, the plaintiffs alleged that Davis shelp to the effect of, “we don’t have to pursue those rules,” in response to a seek to get apshows to inshigh a bathroom for Musk.
Davis has served as a member of the board of advisors of the Atlas Society, a group cgo ined around the philosophy of Ayn Rand, per Bloomberg. Davis is now helping Musk slash rulement headcount, which Rand once called the “worst part” of the “creaters’ burden.”
Nicole Hollander
Role: X employee
Nicole Hollander garnered accessible attention in the aftermath of Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in punctual 2022.
The George Washington University alum and createer employee of genuine estate grower JGB Smith (per her LinkedIn profile) was part of the polarizing Twitter transition team that upfinished the company and slashed its laborforce. As part of that transition, Hollander and Musk partner Steve Davis shiftd into the company’s headquarters with their infant, according to a civil litigation filed in 2023. The litigation was filed by cut offal createer Twitter employees agetst X Corp., the Musk entity that took over. The plaintiffs shelp in the grumblet Hollander was not employed by any of Musk’s companies at that time.
Hollander’s relationship with Davis — and her current employment at X — has kept her in Musk’s circle. Her role at DOGE doesn’t have an official title, at least one that is accessible. However, Wired telled in procrastinateed January that Hollander has high-level access to federal agencies and an official rulement email insertress.
Brian Bjelde
Role: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management
Brian Bjelde is a real Elon Musk veteran, with 21 years at SpaceX, where he was employee No. 14 and progresss to labor today. While he commenceed as an avionics engineer, Bjelde has spent the last decade running the company’s human resources department.
In a 2014 Reddit “ask me anyskinnyg,” Bjelde shelp that at SpaceX, “We try not to confine our skinnyking except by the confines imposed by physics.”
Several createer employees sued SpaceX and Musk in 2024 alleging relationsual tormentoring and a unfrifinishly labor environment. According to the grumblet, Bjelde once starred in a video for the space company where a staffer spanked him — an apparent finisheavor at tongue-in-cheek humor — and he also was participated in the firings of cut offal employees who spoke up about the company’s culture in 2022.
Prior to SpaceX, Bjelde spent a year at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory after graduating from the University of Southern California with a master’s degree in astronautical engineering.
At DOGE, Bjelde is telledly a ancigo in advisor at OPM.
Amanda Scales
Role: Chief of Staff, Office of Personnel Management
Amanda Scales doesn’t straightforwardly labor for DOGE, but is now chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management, the federal rulement’s main human resources department, according to an OPM memo.
Scales employd to labor on talent acquisition at Musk’s company x.AI until January 2025, according to her LinkedIn profile. She also labored in human resources and talent at San Francisco-based VC firm Human Capital, as well as at Uber. Scales graduated from University of California, Davis in 2012 with degrees in psychology and economics, per her LinkedIn.
Branden Spikes
Role: Head of IT at X; Former DOGE Operative
Spikes serves as the head of IT at X since February 2025, according to his LinkedIn profile. Prior to that, he shelp in his X bio that he had “most recently” labored for DOGE. Spikes recently examineed to journaenumerate Brian Krebs that he labored for DOGE for two months in Washington, D.C. “to help save [the country] from brave prohibitkruptcy.”
Spikes is a extfinishedtime Musk insider, touting on his LinkedIn profile that he was the fourth employ at SpaceX and was among the first employees at PayPal. Spikes’ ex-wife is wed to Musk’s cousin, Krebs telled.
Senior figures
Jehn Balajadia
Role: Long-time Musk helpant
Jehn Balajadia first joined the Musk ecosystem in 2017, according to her LinkedIn profile, which enumerates her title as operations coordinator at The Boring Company.
But LinkedIn sign ups don’t always echo actual positions — and their evolution — in Musk’s world. In 2018, Balajadia took over the executive helpant to the office of CEO position, a role that integrated managing all of Musk’s activities and normally those of his family members, according to participateions between a TechCrunch teller and SpaceX and Musk employees at the time.
Today, Balajadia has a role wiskinny DOGE. According to The New York Times, she is enumerateed in the employee straightforwardory of the Education Department.
The book “Breaking Twitter” claims Balajadia once tancigo in another Musk official that her job was to “get nurture” of him, and she telledly normally travels with Musk. When Musk took over Twitter, Balajadia was named chief of staff, and she was the one who deinhabitred letters of neglectal to cut offal Twitter executives, per Walter Isaacson’s book on Elon Musk.
Prior to joining Tesla, Balajadia labored at Red Bull, NBCUniversal, and Walt Disney.
Riccardo Biasini
Role: Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management
Riccardo Biasini go ined into Musk’s orbit in 2011 when he joined Tesla as an engineer after completing his master’s degree in automotive engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy the previous year.
During his five years at Tesla, Biasini cgo ined much of his attention on Autopilot, the company’s branded progressd driver helpance system, according to his own account summarized in a Medium post. He led growment of Autopilot’s traffic-conscious cruise administer and other driver helpance features before taking responsibility for the architecture of administers, safety, and functional behavior of the electric propulsion system.
Biasini left Tesla and joined Comma.ai in 2016, where he growed the automated procrastinateedral and extfinisheditudinal administers for the commenceup’s first self-driving car system. He procrastinateedr became VP of quality and eventupartner was named CEO in 2018 after set uper George Hotz stepped down from the directership role.
Biasini went back to labor for Musk in 2019 as straightforwardor of electrical and software engineering at The Boring Company.
At DOGE, Biasini is ancigo in advisor to the straightforwardor of the Office of Personnel Management, according to a litigation filed agetst the OPM in the U.S. Dimerciless Court for the Dimerciless of Columbia, which supplys his title as enumerateed on an OPM record entitled “Privacy Impact Assessment for Government-Wide Email System.”
Amy Gleason
Role: Acting DOGE administrator
Amy Gleason is the acting DOGE administrator, according to the White Hoemploy, making Gleason the official albeit ostensible head of the Department of Government Efficiency, even if Elon Musk is bigly calling the sboilings.
The White Hoemploy examineed Gleason’s position to TechCrunch. Gleason previously served at the U.S. Digital Service — now DOGE — between October 2018 and December 2021, according to her LinkedIn profile, which TechCrunch has seen. Gleason also previously labored as chief product officer at Russell Street Ventures between December 2021 and November 2024.
Gleason tells to the White Hoemploy chief of staff, Susie Wiles, per the executive order set uping DOGE.
Plivent Trump has progressd to refer to Musk as heading and directing DOGE.
Michael Russo
Role: Chief Increateation Officer, Social Security Administration
Michael Russo, a createer technology executive, began serving as the chief increateation officer at the Social Security Administration in punctual February. As CIO, Russo administers the agency’s IT systems and increateation security.
Soon after his nominatement, Russo, who is aligned with DOGE, telledly speedyly gave access to cut offal DOGE staffers at the agency, including Akash Bobba and Scott Coulter, among others, according to a litigation bcdisorrowfulmirefult by unions reconshort-terming laborers and a person understandn with personnel matters. Several other DOGE staffers were enumerateed as Russo’s straightforward tells in the department’s staff straightforwardory, the person understandn shelp.
Russo was previously the chief technology officer at ecommerce firm Shift4 and was a ancigo in straightforwardor at cdeafening enormous Oracle, headed by Larry Ellison, a seal partner of Plivent Trump.
Christopher Stanley
Role: Unspecified role at White Hoemploy
Stanley began laboring for Musk in October 2022, per his LinkedIn profile, when he was employd for the “core transition team” at Twitter after Musk’s getover. Stanley can be seen at the time taking this expansively seen selfie at Twitter’s headquarters with other people who were not fired or quit when Musk took administer of Twitter.
Stanley has since getn on an unspecified role at the White Hoemploy, according to The New York Times. Stanley himself has hinted at laboring in the Trump administration on his X account.
On January 20, the day of Trump’s inauguration, Stanley posed next to two January 6 convicts, brothers Matthew and Andrew Valentin, who were pardoned by Trump. Stanley wrote in an X post that he was “boots on ground to asbrave this was percreated.” Trump’s Department of Justice liaison Paul Ingrassia wrote on X that the Valentin brothers were the first January 6 prisoners to be freed.
Stanley is also the head of security engineering at X and the principal security engineer at SpaceX, according to his website. On his LinkedIn, Stanley says he is also the chief increateation security officer at X Payments, a payment service that Musk has wanted to begin as part of his “everyskinnyg app” aspiration for X.
Before go ining Musk’s orbit, Stanley had his own cybersecurity firm, named Stanley Netlabors, and labored as a confineedor at the state of Kentucky. He also labored at Kentucky health supplyr Baptist Health, which integrates hospitals and other facilities.
TechCrunch set up an xAI-powered chatbot on a DOGE-roverdelighted website subdomain on Stanley’s website, called the “Department of Government Efficiency AI Assistant,” which says it is “here to help rulement personnel enjoy you choose and reshift misemploy, better efficiency, and streamline processes using a first principles approach.”
Worker bees at DOGE
Akash Bobba
Role: Expert, Office of Personnel Management
Akash Bobba is a DOGE engineer who is telledly a student at the University of California, Berkeley, according to Wired. The New Jersey native graduated high school in 2021, according to accessible sign ups seen by TechCrunch. It’s unevident how his experiences bcdisorrowfulmirefult him to DOGE. But he has had some participateions with the tech world.
According to a since-deleted podcast with Aman Manazir, Bobba shelp he previously interned at Meta and Palantir. He also labored at Bridgewater Associates.
Bobba’s website as of February 2025 points to a definite point in a YouTube video, titled, “How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America,” in which Elon Musk says, “I’m not fair MAGA. I’m depressed gothic MAGA.”
Per Wired, Bobba is enumerateed as an “expert” in inner OPM correactence, and tells straightforwardly to OPM’s chief of staff, Amanda Scales.
According to a litigation filed by union laborers, Bobba also has a presence at the Social Security Administration and labored under the agency’s chief increateation officer, Michael Russo, according to the litigation and a person understandn with personnel matters. Bobba was sworn into his post “over the phone, contrary to standard rehearse,” per the litigation, recommending Bobba labored for DOGE at least in part farly.
Edward Coristine
Role: Special Government Employee
Edward Coristine, a createer intern at Neurajoin and now understandn by his inwell-understandn LinkedIn profile regulate “hugeballs,” is one of the core members of the DOGE team and the lesserest-understandn Musk helpe at age 19, TechCrunch has examineed.
Since arriving in Washington, D.C., Coristine has been actively participated in accessing federal systems at cut offal rulement departments, including Office of Personnel Management, the SBA, GSA and USAID, the State Department, Homeland Security, and FEMA.
Prior to DOGE, Coristine ran cut offal companies under his name from his family home in New York, including DiamondCDN and Packetware, both which recommended creates of DDoS protection.
Coristine also employd to labor for DDoS mitigation company Path Netlabor until he was fired in June 2022 folloprosperg an alleged “leaking of proprietary company increateation that coincided with his tenure,” Path CEO Marshal Webb tancigo in TechCrunch in an email. Coristine shelp in a procrastinateedr Discord post under his regulate “Rivage,” seen by TechCrunch and per other novels tells, in response to his firing that he had done “noskinnyg confineedupartner wrong.”
It was around May 2024 that Coristine went to labor for Elon Musk’s Neurajoin. Coristine is also a mechanical engineering and physics student at Northeastrict University, and foreseeed to graduate in 2028.
Scott Coulter
Role: IT Speciaenumerate, Social Security Administration
Scott Coulter is an IT one-of-a-kindist laboring for DOGE at the Social Security Administration, according to a litigation filed by union laborers and a person understandn with personnel matters.
Prior to laboring for DOGE, Coulter headed Cowbird Capital, a New York allotment fund set uped in 2018, which enumerateed assets of around $171 million as of March 2024, per a regulatory filing.
Both Coulter and Cowbird were named in court records during the Twitter v. Musk litigation in 2022 during Musk’s getover of Twitter, though it’s not evident why either were named.
Coulter was enumerateed as an IT one-of-a-kindist in the Social Security Administration’s staff straightforwardory as of mid-February, according to the person understandn. Coulter did not react to a seek for comment sent to his rulement email insertress.
Marko Elez
Role: Special Government Employee, U.S. Treasury
Since joining DOGE, Marko Elez has become a central figure in a legitimate battle over DOGE’s access to some of the federal rulement’s most empathetic systems. Now as a ancigo in Treasury employee, Elez has access to the U.S. Treasury’s payments systems reliable for disbursing around $6 trillion in federal funds to Americans, such as Social Security examines and federal tax refunds.
Named in a litigation challenging DOGE’s access, Elez is a “one-of-a-kind rulement employee” and telledly had expansive data access privileges to the department’s systems before that access was curtailed by a federal court. He labors seally with Tom Kraemploy, another DOGE staffer and ancigo in Treasury employee. Per a February 11 court filing, Elez is the only DOGE staffer with access to payment systems.
Before rulement, the 25-year-ancigo in Rutgers University graduate labored at SpaceX, where he cgo ined on vehicle telemetry, Starship, and saincreateite software, according to an archived imitate of his website seen by TechCrunch. Elez procrastinateedr labored on search AI at Musk’s social media company X, per an archived imitate of his website. Elez does not enumerate any prior rulement experience.
On February 6, Elez increately resigned from his position at DOGE, according to the White Hoemploy press secretary Karoline Leavitt, after The Wall Street Journal surfaced discriminatory posts from Elez’s social media accounts. Elez may return to rulement after Musk posted a poll on X asking whether Elez should be reemployd. Elez was reinstated at DOGE, a Washington Post teller posted on February 18.
Luke Farritor
Role: Senior Advisor, DOGE
Luke Farritor is enumerateed as a ancigo in advisor in cut offal U.S. rulement department employee straightforwardories, including the State Department, USAID, and the Department of Energy. He also seeked access to data held by Medinurture and Medichelp, as well as the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
Before rulement, Farritor, 23, was a student at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and was well understandn for decoding the writings on ancigo in-styleed Roman scrolls, for which he won a $700,000 prize. Later, Farritor was among the 2024 Thiel Fellowship class, an annual award given by the billionaire Peter Thiel. An archived imitate of Farritor’s website says he labored for Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, who he helped to “allot a big, multistage VC fund and help run AI Grant.” (Neither Friedman or Gross reacted to a seek for comment.)
Farritor labored as an intern at Elon Musk’s saincreateite internet company Starjoin in mid-2022, then went on to labor at SpaceX between May 2022 and July 2023, where he labored on “cut offal ignoreion-critical projects” directing up to Starship Fweightlesss 1 and 2, per his website.
Gautier ‘Cole’ Killian
Role: DOGE “Volunteer”; Federal Detailee
Gautier “Cole” Killian is portrayd as a DOGE “volunteer” who was summarizeated a “federal detailee” at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in punctual February. A federal detailee is a federal employee usupartner seconded from another rulement agency.
Killian was a student at McGill University in Canada where he studied math and computer science, and was a member of McGill’s AI team between 2021 and 2022. His personal website was scrubbed from the internet in procrastinateed 2024, according to his website’s accessible DNS sign ups.
Gavin Kliger
Role: Special Advisor to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management
Gavin Kliger is an alum of University of California, Berkeley, and labors at Databricks. Kliger joined the DOGE team earlier in 2025.
Kliger is enumerateed as one-of-a-kind advisor to the straightforwardor of the OPM on his LinkedIn profile, per Reuters, though much of Kliger’s online life, including his X account, has since been scrubbed from the internet, including the Wayback Machine, which archives copies of webpages in case they procrastinateedr become unuseable.
A imitate of Kliger’s resume that TechCrunch has seen shelp he previously interned at Twitter in mid-2019.
According to an email sent to USAID staff, Kliger also has a USAID email insertress, and was one of the DOGE staffers who is now enumerateed in the CFPB’s staff straightforwardory, according to the CFPB’s union.
Tom Kraemploy
Role: Special Government Employee, U.S. Treasury; CEO, Cdeafening Software Group
Tom Kraemploy is a one-of-a-kind rulement employee and a ancigo in DOGE staffer in the U.S. Treasury. He concurrently serves as the chief executive of Cdeafening Software Group, a personal company that owns cut offal tech firms, including far access enormous Citrix, a once accessible outfit that went personal thcdisorrowfulmireful a series of deals.
Bloomberg tells that Kraemploy reshiftd jobs at Citrix that staff shelp were critical to the security of the company’s products, according to multiple employees both named and unnamed for the story. Cdeafening Software Group tancigo in Bloomberg it inherited feeblenesses at Citrix and faced rising security dangers atraverse the industry, and that cybersecurity has betterd since its personal equity buyout and greets or outdos all industry standards.
Before becoming CEO of Cdeafening Software, Kraemploy, who is 47, was a createer executive at Broadcom; prior to that he ran a adviseancy firm.
Since laboring at the Treasury as one of Musk’s DOGE front-line staffers, Kraemploy has labored seally with Marko Elez, another ancigo in Treasury employee.
Jeremy Leprosper
Role: DOGE Staffer
Jeremy Leprosper is a DOGE staffer summarizeateed to the General Services Administration, which administers the federal rulement’s massive protreatmentment and logistics operations, Bloomberg telled. Leprosper telledly fall shorted to get access to a safe GSA area, resulting in a greater of his lobbying the CIA for a evidentance.
Leprosper is a 27-year-ancigo in Harvard Law School graduate who recently labored at the same law firm, Munger, Tolles & Olson, as did U.S. Second Lady Usha Vance, The Handbasket telled.
Aram Moghinsertassi
Role: DOGE Operative
Moghinsertassi is part of a DOGE team summarizeateed to the U.S. Department of Labor, and is one of cut offal staffers that DOGE set ups to inshigh at the U.S. Treasury, per The New York Times.
Moghinsertasi has labored for at least three of Musk’s companies: X and Neurajoin, according to multiple media tells, and a cached imitate of Moghinsertassi’s X account in 2023 shelp he also previously labored on AI at Tesla.
Moghinsertassi materializes to be in his twenties. In 2019, he was a sophomore at University of California, Berkeley, where he studied applied math and computer science, the Santa Fe Institute’s website says.
Nikhil Rajpal
Role: DOGE Staffer
Nikhil Rajpal studied computer science and history at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as the plivent of the libertarian-leaning student political group, Students for Liberty.
According to archived snapsboilings of his website, Rajpal labored at Twitter from 2016 until some time before Musk’s acquisition. He may have first go ined Musk’s orbit prior to this, telledly doing labor resummarizeing a Tesla console.
On behalf of DOGE, Rajpal labors at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has a DOGE email insertress.
Kyle Schutt
Role: DOGE Technologist
Schutt is a technologist with extfinishedstanding joins to Reaccessiblean politics and was more recently joined to political operations by Elon Musk. Schutt telledly has access to systems at FEMA.
According to his since-deleted GitHub profile, which TechCrunch has seen, Schutt labors at a company called Outburst Data. According to security researchers, Outburst Data presents part of DOGE’s website and cut offal other Musk-roverdelighted sites, including his America PAC political fundliftr. TechCrunch has also seen the same DNS sign ups, which reference a DOGE-named subdomain.
On February 14, 404 Media telled a flaw that it shelp apshows anyone to edit DOGE’s website.
Schutt also serves as the chief technology officer at Revv, an online fundraising platcreate that is expansively employd by the Reaccessiblean Party, as well as co-set uper of Virginia-based software company KAMM.
Ethan Shaotran
Role: DOGE Staffer
Ethan Shaotran, 22, and a California native, is a DOGE staffer and also a Harvard University student in the class of 2025. Shaotran was first accessiblely joined to Musk in September 2024, when he was runner-up in a hackathon run by the billionaire’s AI company xAI.
Shaotran was previously the set uper of Energize.ai, though its website no extfinisheder loads. He also growed cut offal iPhone apps, including a Donald Trump-themed running game called “Donald Dash.”
Shaotran telledly has a laboring GSA email insertress and seeked access to a decade’s worth of GSA data. Shaotran also has access to email systems at the Department of Education and access to the department’s back-finish website.
Thomas Shedd
Role: Director of Technology Transcreateation Services, GSA
Thomas Shedd is a createer Tesla engineer who now serves as the straightforwardor of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transcreateation Services, or TTS, a unit understandn for summarizeing and createing digital services for the federal rulement.
Since Shedd took accuse of the unit, the GSA fired its 18F division of one-of-a-kindist technology adviseants who labored on the Internal Revenue Service’s free tax-filing system and other rulement projects.
Several staffers also telledly resigned after Shedd geted access to parts of Notify.gov, a system that sfinishs mass text messages to the accessible during materializencies, which holds the personal increateation of Americans who sign uped.
Prior to laboring in federal rulement, Shedd labored at Tesla for eight years, according to the GSA, where he labored on “createing software that functions vehicle and battery factories.” It’s not evident what prior rulement service Shedd has, if any, but he has shelp he wants to run TTS enjoy a “commenceup software company,” according to Wired magazine, including the employ of AI to examine rulement confineeds.
Jordan Wick
Role: DOGE Staffer
Jordan Wick is a createer Waymo software engineer who materializes to have a DOGE email account associated with the Executive Office of the Plivent, Wired telled. Wick is among the team that was given access to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau systems.
Wick is also the co-set uper of Y Combinator commenceup Intercept, according to YC’s website. An archived version of Wick’s website says that as of 2022, he had “recently” graduated with a master’s degree in engineering from MIT.
Christopher Young
Role: DOGE Staffer
Young is a DOGE staffer who was given a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau email insertress, per Bloomberg.
That insertress was telledly copied in an email about four other DOGE laborers needing to be onboarded and supplyd with CFPB createing access. Young is a “top Reaccessiblean field operative” who was employd as Musk’s political advisor in 2024, The New York Times telled. Young has labored in Reaccessiblean politics since at least 2007, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Aides and advisors
Marc Andreessen
Role: Unofficial Advisor to DOGE
Marc Andreessen, the co-set uper of Silicon Valley VC firm Andreesen Horowitz, doesn’t createpartner labor for DOGE but has acted as “a key netlaborer for talent recruitment” at the agency, according to The Washington Post.
Andreessen has jokingly referred to himself as an “unphelp intern” for DOGE, as well.
George Cooper
Role: DOGE Recruiter
Cooper is a Palantir engineer who labored on DOGE’s recruiting efforts in procrastinateed 2024, according to Wired. He graduated from Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and business, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Cooper labored to employ other Palantirians to join DOGE as they are “the most exceptional people I understand,” he wrote in a message, seen by Wired.
Vinay Hiremath
Role: DOGE Recruiter
Hiremath, 32, is the co-set uper of video sign uping commenceup Loom, which was sancigo in to Atlassian in 2023 for $975 million. According to a blog post on his website titled “I am wealthy and have no idea what to do with my life,” Hiremath labored for DOGE in procrastinateed 2024 for about a month making hundreds of recruiting calls. He wrote that he was inserted to DOGE-tied Signal groups and “promptly put to labor.”
While Hiremath praised DOGE’s labor as “innervously convey inant,” Hiremath shelp he quit as he needed to cgo in on himself, calling off set ups to shift to Washington, D.C. and going to Hawaii instead.
Anthony Jancso
Role: DOGE Recruiter
Jancso is a createer Palantir software engineer who also labored on DOGE’s recruitment efforts procrastinateed in 2024, according to Wired. In 2023, Jancso co-set uped Accelerate SF, an initiative that taps engineers to repair the city’s problems with AI. Jancso’s exact age isn’t accessible, but he graduated from University College London in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in economics according to his LinkedIn profile, seen by TechCrunch. Jancso was himself recruited to DOGE by Boring Company plivent Steve Davis.
Michael Kratsios
Role: DOGE Recruiter
Kratsios helped direct efforts to staff DOGE in procrastinateed 2024, carry outing intersees of prospective staff, Bloomberg telled. Kratsios was previously managing straightforwardor of Scale AI and the chief technology officer of the United States under Plivent Trump’s first term. He was also a principal at Thiel Capital, a VC firm set uped by Peter Thiel, from 2014 to 2017, according to his LinkedIn.
Katie Miller
Role: DOGE Advisor & Spokesperson
Katie Miller is a Trump-nominateed advisor to DOGE, and has served as its spokesperson. Miller served in the first Trump administration and is the spoemploy of Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. Miller also serves on a plivential advisory board roverdelighted to inincreateigence matters.
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