Meet Team DOGE

Steve Davis
DOGE Chief Operating Officer (COO). Working at the Executive Office of the President, General Services Administration for DOGE.

CEO and President of Elon Musk’s The Boring Company. Steve Davis has a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Stanford and a doctorate in economics from George Mason University.  According to The New York Times, Davis was one of the first people involved in setting up DOGE with Musk and has been involved in staff recruitment.


Joe Gebbia
Working in the IRS for DOGE.
Billionaire co-founder of Airbnb Joe Gebbia, an investor in the San Antonio Spurs. Gebbia, a longtime Democratic donor, supported Donald Trump in the November presidential election after what he described as a political reawakening. Joe Gebbia is running DOGE’s Digital Retirement Project. He said he has been working to digitize millions of retirement documents housed in a mine in Pennsylvania. 


Brad Smith
Working at HHS (Dept. of Health and Human Services) for DOGE.
Health care entrepreneur who served in President Trump’s first administration. Brad Smith, a healthcare entrepreneur says they are committed to making sure we continue to have the best biomedical research in the world. He also served with the first Trump administration and was involved with Operation Warp Speed, the federal government’s coronavirus vaccine development program.

According to The New York Times, which first reported Smith’s involvement in DOGE, he is a friend of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.


Anthony Armstrong
Working at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for DOGE.
Morgan Stanley banker and was involved in Musk’s 2022 purchase of Twitter. He argued there are numerous “duplicative functions” in the government and suggested money is “sloshing out the door.”

“This is not about the employees,” he said. “There’s many, many, hardworking, well-meaning people who took these jobs. … It’s just that they’re duplicating the effort of 40 offices.”  Since Trump took office, OPM has spearheaded the new administration’s efforts to dramatically reduce the federal workforce and roll back telework and remote work policies.


Amanda Scales
Working at the Office of Personnel Management for DOGE.

Scales’ name came to light in the first week of the Trump administration as federal employees received a memo putting them on notice that diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives in the federal government were now barred through an executive order — and to report efforts to conceal them. The message listed Scales as the point of contact for questions. Scales worked in the human resources department at xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, prior to OPM. Before that, she worked in recruiting at ridesharing company Uber.


Tyler Hassen
Working at the Interior Department for DOGE.

President of Basin Industries/Basin Energy Company.  Tyler Hassen is the president of an energy company and is working with DOGE at the Department of the Interior. Tyler Hassen, a former oil executive, is working at the Interior Department for DOGE. Politico’s E&E News reported earlier this month that he was promoted to acting assistant secretary of policy, management and budget at the agency. 

He alleged Thursday there was no departmental oversight at the Interior Department “whatsoever” under the Biden administration. 


Tom Krause
Working at the Treasury Department for DOGE.

Krause is a Treasury Department employee who is also affiliated with DOGE. “As an ex-CFO of a big public tech company, really what we’re doing is, we’re applying public company standards to the federal government, and it is alarming how the financial operations and financial management is set up today,” he said.


Christopher Stanley
Working at the Executive Office of the President, Office of Personnel Management, Department of Justice for DOGE.

Stanley is an experienced information security professional who has worked at multiple Musk-related companies. He is reportedly an aide to Musk at DOGE, according to The New York Times, and has a role at the White House. Stanley was part of the team Musk used to take over Twitter.


Stephanie Holmes
Working at the Executive Office of the President, Department of the Interior for DOGE.

Holmes is running human resources at DOGE, according to government workers who have been in meetings with her. A former lawyer with Jones Day, a firm that frequently represents Trump, she was previously the chief people officer at Oklo, a nuclear energy company chaired by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.


Brian Bjelde
Working at the Office of Personnel Management for DOGE.

Bjelde is a longtime SpaceX employee who’s spent more than 20 years at the company, according to his LinkedIn profile, where he’s had a variety of jobs, including as managing director of the “food services group.” He previously worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He’s been referred to in press reports as a “top DOGE Lieutenant,” working at OPM to slash head count. 


Keenan D. Kmiec
Working at the Executive Office of the President
for DOGE.

Keenan Kmiec’s career veered from elite law to, more recently, crypto. After clerking for then-Judge Samuel Alito on a federal circuit court, he clerked on the Supreme Court for Chief Justice John Roberts in the 2006-2007 term, according to his LinkedIn. 


Jacob Altik
Working at the Executive Office of the President, U.S. African Development Foundation, Inter-American Foundation, U.S. Institute of Peace for DOGE.

Altik is a lawyer and a 2021 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. He clerked for D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee known for critiquing the administrative state.


Ethan Shaotran
Working at the General Services Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Social Security Administration, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. African Development Foundation, Inter-American Foundation for DOGE.

Shaotran recently attended Harvard University and studied computer science. He founded Spark, a scheduling assistant startup, for which he said he received a $100,000 grant from OpenAI. He was a member of a team that was a finalist in a hackathon organized by xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company.


Marko Elez
Working at the Department of the Treasury, Social Security Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State
for DOGE.

Elez works at the Treasury Department, a staffer at the office of the Secretary of Treasury. Elez, who graduated from Rutgers in 2021 and studied computer science. He was most recently an engineer at X in New York for roughly a year and an engineer at SpaceX in the Los Angeles area for around three years before that.


Justin Monroe
Working at the Federal Bureau of Investigation
for DOGE.

Monroe was the Senior director for security at SpaceX. Monroe is working as an adviser within the office of the director of the FBI, according to three people familiar with the matter. NBC News previously reported that an unnamed SpaceX employee has been placed in the FBI director’s office but said it could not confirm the individual’s identity. Monroe is a seasoned information security professional who previously served in the U.S. Navy as an information warfare officer.


Rachel Riley
Working at the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
for DOGE.

Riley works as a senior adviser at HHS, according to agency data. She previously worked for consultancy firm McKinsey & Company for about eight years, most recently as a partner leading teams advising the company’s state and federal government clients. She has been working closely with Brad Smith, a former health official in Trump’s first administration who ran DOGE during the transition period, according to media reports.


Michael Russo
Working at the Social Security Administration
for DOGE.

Russo is a top-ranking technology official at the SSA, which disburses over $1.5 trillion in benefits annually. Russo spent over seven years as an executive and senior adviser with Shift4 Payments, a payment processing company that is both an investor in SpaceX and a payment processor for StarLink, according to his LinkedIn. The CEO of Shift4 Payments, Jared Isaacman, has been nominated by Trump to lead NASA and is a friend of Musk’s who has purchased multiple spacewalks with Musk’s SpaceX company. Russo’s office will oversee the SSA’s over $2 billion IT budget.


Katie Miller
Working at the Executive Office of the President
for DOGE.

Trump named Miller, who served in the first administration as a press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence, as one of the first members of DOGE. She is the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. After reports that DOGE personnel accessed internal USAID data, Katie Miller defended the group, saying that “no classified material was accessed without proper security clearances.”


Kendall M. Lindemann
Working at the Executive Office of the President
for DOGE.

Lindemann is an official member of the DOGE team, according to federal records viewed by ProPublica. According to her LinkedIn page, she most recently worked as an associate at Russell Street Ventures, a health care firm founded by fellow DOGE associate Brad Smith. She also previously worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company.


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