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The DOGE employees and allies working on Elon Musk’s government goals

Aug 04, 2026  Twila Rosenbaum  6 views
The DOGE employees and allies working on Elon Musk’s government goals

Weeks into the new administration, the U.S. DOGE Service — the Department of Government Efficiency — remains a largely opaque operation, with many staffers whose exact titles, roles, and agency assignments are still unclear. The service includes about 90 employees, roughly half of whom came from the existing U.S. Digital Service, which was renamed and folded into DOGE. The following list reflects employees added since DOGE was created and will continue to be updated as new information emerges.

Key DOGE officials

Here are DOGE staffers in leadership roles.

Amy Gleason — Administrator

Amy Gleason is administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service, according to a White House official. She is former chief product officer at Russell Street Ventures, founded by health-care entrepreneur Brad Smith, a key DOGE leader. Before that, she worked for the U.S. Digital Service during Trump's first term.

Steve Davis — Leader

Steve Davis is president of Musk's tunneling company, Boring Co. He is one of Musk's most trusted deputies and oversaw cost-cutting at the social media platform Twitter, which Musk bought in 2022 and renamed X.

Brad Smith — Leader

Brad Smith is a health-care entrepreneur and Rhodes Scholar who served in Trump's first administration as head of the office devoted to Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

Katie Miller — DOGE staffer

Katie Miller served as press secretary and communications director for Vice President Mike Pence. She is a former spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and is also the wife of Trump deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Though she previously fielded media requests for DOGE, Miller said in a text in mid-February that she doesn't do communications.

Joe Gebbia — Leader

Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb, spoke with Fox in late March as part of a segment on DOGE. There, he said he is working on digitizing and streamlining the retirement process for federal workers.

DOGE agency advisers

These DOGE staffers have been assigned to work with specific agencies.

Brian Bjelde — Senior adviser at the Office of Personnel Management

Brian Bjelde is a veteran SpaceX human resources executive. Bjelde was one of several leaders at Musk companies sued by former Twitter workers for allegedly neglecting to make severance payments after they were fired when Musk bought the social media company. The lawsuit is ongoing.

Nate Cavanaugh — Adviser at General Services Administration

Nate Cavanaugh, an adviser to acting GSA administrator Thomas Shedd, is an entrepreneur who has founded multiple start-ups. He co-founded the intellectual property management start-up Brainbase at age 19 before dropping out of Indiana University, according to a 2021 Forbes "30 Under 30" profile. His LinkedIn page lists him as co-founder and chairman of FlowFi, an accounting software company.

Stephen Duarte — Expert at OPM

Stephen Duarte has worked in human resources for SpaceX, according to his LinkedIn.

Stephen Ehikian — Acting administrator and deputy administrator at the GSA

Stephen Ehikian previously worked in Silicon Valley, including at Salesforce. He also co-founded a company, Airkit.ai, that used artificial intelligence to create customer service agents for e-commerce companies.

Marko Elez — DOGE staffer at the Treasury Department

Marko Elez was a DOGE staffer at the Treasury Department who gained access to the sensitive BFS payment systems. He resigned in February after the Wall Street Journal linked him to a social media account that had made racist posts. Musk said he would be rehired, and later in February, his email appeared in a DOGE employee directory. He was also listed under a separate email address in a Social Security Administration email directory.

Justin Fulcher — Senior adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Justin Fulcher, adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of RingMD, a digital health-care platform.

Christina Hanna — Expert at OPM

Christina Hanna has worked as a senior manager for human resources at SpaceX for almost nine years, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Tyler Hassen — Senior adviser to secretary of the interior

Tyler Hassen is an oil industry executive who is working for DOGE at the Interior Department. There, he is reviewing "every single" contract and grant, he said in an interview on Fox in March.

Tom Krause — Fiscal assistant secretary at the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service

Tom Krause is a Musk ally and the chief executive of Cloud Software Group, a holding company that resulted from a private-equity transaction combining Citrix and TIBCO, two software companies. He told his employees in early February that he would keep his job at the company even as he works at Treasury, according to an email the company shared with The Post. He oversees Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), replacing veteran civil servant David A. Lebryk, who resigned after a dispute with Musk surrogates, including Krause, over access to sensitive payment systems.

Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski — Expert at OPM

Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski has worked as an HR director at SpaceX, according to her LinkedIn.

Amanda Scales — Chief of staff at OPM

Amanda Scales came from Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, where she worked for a few months in recruiting. Previously, she worked in talent acquisition at Uber, according to her LinkedIn profile, and the venture capital firm Human Capital, which was co-founded by Musk ally Baris Akis, a Turkish-born venture capitalist.

Thomas Shedd — FAS Deputy Commissioner, Director of Technology Transformation Services

Shedd spent eight years working at Tesla and is now leading a once-obscure IT unit nestled within the General Services Administration.

Other DOGE staffers

DOGE has recruited lawyers, engineers and finance professionals to be part of its staff.

Anthony Armstrong — Finance

Anthony Armstrong has worked as vice chairman for investment banking at Morgan Stanley and is the former director of the U.S. Ski Mountaineering Association. Armstrong helped Musk with his acquisition of Twitter, now renamed X.

Austin Raynor — Lawyer

Austin Raynor is a lawyer who previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to Business Insider, and served as an assistant to the solicitor general at the Justice Department. He was a member of the Federalist Society while in law school at the University of Virginia. According to a recent bio online, he worked at the Pacific Legal Foundation, which "defends Americans' liberty pro bono against government overreach and abuse."

Justin Aimonetti — Lawyer

Justin Aimonetti, 31, worked at Dechert, a major law firm, until February, according to his LinkedIn profile. Prior to Dechert, he worked as a law clerk at the district court and circuit court levels.

Jacob Altik — Lawyer

Jacob Altik has a DOGE email address. ProPublica identified him as a lawyer who recently worked at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges as an associate. His LinkedIn profile shows he graduated from the University of Michigan's law school in 2021 and clerked for two federal judges. Altik has been selected to serve as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch starting later this year, according to an announcement from his law school.

Jennifer Balajadia — Operations

Jennifer Balajadia works closely with Musk as a top assistant and has been a manager at his tunneling company, Boring Co.

Alexandra Beynon — Engineer

Alexandra "Aly" Beynon is a former Goldman Sachs engineer who recently worked at Mindbloom, her husband's start-up for at-home ketamine therapy.

Riccardo Biasini — Engineer

Riccardo Biasini has worked as an engineering director at the Boring Co.

Akash Bobba — Engineer

Akash Bobba, in his 20s, is an engineer who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, according to CNN and Wired, and interned at Meta and Palantir. A former classmate, recounting a blunder in which he deleted crucial computer code during a project, said Bobba stepped in and "rewrote everything from scratch in one night — better than before." "I trust him with everything I own," he wrote on X.

Ashley Boizelle — Lawyer

Ashley Boizelle, 43, is a former attorney for Amazon and the Federal Communications Commission. She also previously worked as a legal fellow for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and a law clerk at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, according to her LinkedIn.

James Burnham — Lawyer

James Burnham is a former Jones Day attorney who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. More recently, Burnham founded a firm that invests in litigation, called Vallecito Capital. During the first Trump administration, Burnham was a deputy assistant attorney general in the civil division of the Justice Department.

Edward Coristine — Engineer

Edward Coristine, 19, worked briefly for Musk's brain chip start-up Neuralink and is now posted to agencies including the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Known online as "Big Balls," Coristine has attracted widespread attention, including for his reported firing from a job at a cybersecurity firm for allegedly leaking company information to a competitor, detailed in a Bloomberg News story.

Luke Farritor — Engineer

Luke Farritor, in his 20s, attended the University of Nebraska and was the cowinner of a prestigious $700,000 prize for decoding a Roman scroll. He also was an intern for SpaceX.

Joshua Hanley — Attorney

Joshua A. Hanley is a recent University of Virginia law graduate who previously worked at the law firm Williams & Connolly. His name has appeared in DOGE email lists, but it is unclear if he was detailed to a particular department.

Stephanie Holmes — Human Resources

Stephanie Holmes started her own consulting firm, BrighterSideHR, according to 404 Media, which identified her as a DOGE staffer. She is an attorney who has represented employers in labor cases. Holmes has worked with Philanthropy Roundtable on its True Diversity initiative, including writing a paper stating that "DEI may be creating legal liability for companies and having a counterproductive impact on work environments."

Erica Jehling — Environmental Protection Agency

Erica Jehling has worked at SpaceX and is now working at the EPA, according to a person with knowledge of the appointment.

Gautier 'Cole' Killian — Engineer

Gautier "Cole" Killian, in his 20s, studied math and computer science at McGill University and recently worked at Jump Trading, an algorithmic financial trading firm.

Gavin Kliger — Engineer

Gavin Kliger, in his 20s, is a software engineer and one of the DOGE employees involved in shutting down USAID. Kliger is now working at the IRS on behalf of DOGE, with the title of "senior adviser to the acting IRS commissioner," according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details. His LinkedIn previously stated that until January he worked as a senior software engineer at Databricks, an AI-focused data software firm. He worked briefly at Twitter in 2019, before Musk bought the platform. Kliger also said on his LinkedIn profile that he is now "senior adviser to the director for technology and delivery" at the Office of Personnel Management. His LinkedIn profile appears to have been recently taken offline.

Keenan Kmiec — Lawyer

Keenan Kmiec is a lawyer who clerked for Samuel A. Alito Jr. when the Supreme Court justice was a federal judge. He also clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Kmiec ran his own law firm for 10 years with a partner, working on insider-trading litigation. Afterward, he worked with crypto and non-fungible tokens, serving as chief executive of a now-shuttered NFT start-up.

Jeremy P. Lewin — Lawyer

Jeremy P. Lewin is an attorney who has worked in California and previously clerked for a judge on the D.C. Circuit, according to an online biography. At one point, he advised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the biography. An internal directory seen by The Post shows that he is working at the National Institutes of Health.

Kendall Lindemann — Finance

Kendall Lindemann, in her 20s, is a former college swimmer at the University of Tennessee who has worked as a McKinsey analyst and as an associate at Russell Street Ventures, a firm founded by another DOGE member, Brad Smith.

Kathryn Loving — Environmental Protection Agency

Kathryn Loving is the sister of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, according to ProPublica. According to her LinkedIn, she has worked as director at Ginkgo Bioworks, a biotechnology company. She is working at the EPA, according to a person with knowledge of the appointment.

Aram Moghaddassi — Engineer

Aram Moghaddassi is a former employee of X and Neuralink who appeared on Fox with Musk and other DOGE staffers in March. Moghaddassi discussed what he described as attempted fraud at the Social Security Administration.

Noah Peters — Lawyer

Noah Peters is an attorney who worked at the Federal Labor Relations Authority. It says on his LinkedIn profile that he has worked since January as a senior adviser at OPM.

Nikhil Rajpal — Engineer

Nikhil Rajpal has focused on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to Wired. Before joining the DOGE effort, he worked for Twitter (before Musk's acquisition) and did design work for Tesla, the publication said. "As an undergraduate, Rajpal was the leader of a libertarian-aligned student group advocating for 'minimal government, free markets, sound money, nonintervention, and maximum individual liberty,'" Wired reported.

Adam Ramada — Finance

Adam Ramada has been identified as a Miami venture capital investor by Business Insider.

Rachel Riley — Department of Health and Human Services

Rachel Riley previously worked at McKinsey and is now working at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to eight current and former officials. An internal directory seen by The Post in March showed that she was working at the National Institutes of Health, which is under HHS.

Kyle Schutt — Engineering

Kyle Schutt, a software engineer, has been listed as a senior adviser at both the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is part of DHS, according to a person familiar with his roles. Wired reported he also is on the staff of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Ethan Shaotran — Engineer

Ethan Shaotran, in his 20s, attended Harvard University and was a runner-up in a hackathon run by xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence company.

Christopher Stanley — Engineering

Christopher Stanley has worked at both X and SpaceX in security engineering, according to his LinkedIn profile. In a past role, he worked on technical infrastructure for the state of Kentucky. On his X account, Stanley has posted about helping to release the pardoned Jan. 6 rioters. And he recently wrote: "We should do a 'Daily DOGE' of all the insane stuff being cut. Would be epic."

Jordan Wick — Engineering

Jordan Wick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then worked as a software engineer at Waymo, a self-driving-car company.

Chris Young — Politics

Chris Young is described by the New York Times as a political strategist who recently worked at the trade organization PhRMA and previously worked for the Republican National Committee. The National Treasury Employees Union said in a court filing that he was recently added to the staff directory of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


Source: The Washington Post News


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