Brian Bjelde
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX, Twitter
Exited govt: 5/16/25 (inferred)
A SpaceX veteran who has spent 20 years at the company, Brian Bjelde also helped Elon Musk to drastically cut staff after his takeover of Twitter. It seems like Brian ia happy being a hatchet man, and he likely has been involved in the efforts to cut government staff, including a plan to eliminate 70% of the positions at OPM. He has been keeping a low profile, but the government recently reported that OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde) left working for the agency on 2025-05-16, so he’s presumably no longer in government service.
Likely aliases: OPM-07
Positions
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Systems
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website
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This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
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github
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A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder. unknown access «Github Enterprise» |
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github
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A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder. unknown access «Github Enterprise» |
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USA Performance
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System tracking job performance of federal employees unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”» |
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USA Staffing
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A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees. admin access «for the govt-wide hiring freeze» |
Events
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1/17/25
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Action
Noah Peters recalls that he met with Amanda Scales and Brian Bjelde on this day to plan for their upcoming first day at OPM.
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1/20/25
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Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
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1/20/25
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Access
IT staff at OPM are pulled into a “911-esque call” requesting that “a political team” of 6 individuals must be given access to OPM systems. These include Charles Ezell, Greg Hogan, and Amanda Scales, as well as unidentified employees OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger) and OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde). These DOGE staffers are granted administrative access to USAJOBS, USA Staffing, and USA Performance systems.
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2/03/25
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Report
Brian Bjelde holds a meeting with senior staff at OPM, directing them to prepare plans to eliminate 70% of the agency’s workforce at some unspecified point in the future. They are also told to identify 30% of staff that could be eliminated in the near term.
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2/12/25
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Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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5/06/25
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Offboard
OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde) departs from working at the Office of Personnel Management.
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