DOGE Track

Christopher Stanley

Coder, age 33
Tech Industry Links: Twitter, SpaceX
Exited govt: 6/XX/25 (reported)
Christopher Stanley had been a long-time aide of Elon Musk with positions as a Security Engineer at both SpaceX and X.com before his arrival at DOGE. He kicked off his involvement by greeting jailed January 6th protestors who had been pardoned by Trump. Since then, he has had a varierty of other erratic appearances on the timeline. He briefly launched a custom AI chatbot on the DOGE website before it was noticed and taken down. On March 17th, he was appointed to the board of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, only to resign immediately the next day. More recently, he has been embedded in the Department of Justice as part of the DOGE team building a surveillance system to use against immigrants.

Positions

Appointed:
1/28/25-2/16/25 [as OPM-13] Expert ED-00, excepted, volunteer «Start date guessed from system access.»
Offboarding:
resigned from agency 2/16/25
Source: Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26
Source: OPM New Hires Directory Document Cloud, 5/02/25
Appointed:
1/31/25 Senior Advisor of Technology and Efficiency «Seems to have been hired at DOGE instead of detailed there from OPM»
Offboarding:
Left govt 6/XX/25 (reported)
Source: AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, doc 211-5 Court Document, 4/15/26
Source: The Authors Guild/American Council of Learned Societies v. National Endowment for the Humanities, doc 122-2 Court Document, 2/17/26
Appointed:
3/17/25-3/18/25 Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac «resigned abruptly the day after being appointed»
Offboarding:
resigned from agency 3/18/25
Source: Fannie Mae board member with DOGE ties leaves one day after being appointed Housing Wire, 3/20/25
Detailed To:
c.4/02/25 likely detailed from OPM Senior Advisor
Source: Exclusive: DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software Reuters, 4/02/25

Events

1/28/25
Appointed:
Christopher Stanley starts as Expert at OPM.
Appointed: Christopher Stanley 1/28/25-2/16/25
Position Title: Expert, Office of the Director
Salary: Volunteer
Source: Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26
Source: OPM New Hires Directory Document Cloud, 5/02/25
Note: Start date guessed from system access.
Onboarding:
Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteers with the job title of Expert.
Person: Christopher Stanley, Justin Monroe
Source: Here Are the Job Titles and Salary Ranges of Some DOGE Staffers Bloomberg, 5/02/25
Agency: OPM
1/31/25
Appointed:
Christopher Stanley starts as Senior Advisor of Technology and Efficiency at DOGE.
Appointed: Christopher Stanley 1/31/25
Position Title: Senior Advisor of Technology and Efficiency
Source: AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, doc 211-5 Court Document, 4/15/26
Source: The Authors Guild/American Council of Learned Societies v. National Endowment for the Humanities, doc 122-2 Court Document, 2/17/26
Note: Seems to have been hired at DOGE instead of detailed there from OPM
:
Christopher Stanley is granted basic access to USA Performance at OPM.
System Access: USA Performance
: unknown, 1/31/25 Christopher Stanley
Note: System tracking job performance of federal employees
DOGE Project: Anti-Personnel
2/16/25
Offboarding:
Christopher Stanley leaves role as Expert at OPM
Appointed: Christopher Stanley 1/28/25-2/16/25
Position Title: Expert, Office of the Director
Salary: Volunteer
Source: Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26
Source: OPM New Hires Directory Document Cloud, 5/02/25
Note: Start date guessed from system access.
2/18/25
Report:
A custom AI chatbot based on xAI’s Grok model was discovered hosted on subdomain on the doge.gov site. It is linked to Christopher Stanley.
Person: Christopher Stanley
Source: Elon Musk staffer created a DOGE AI assistant for making government ‘less dumb’ Techcrunch, 2/18/25
Agency: DOGE
DOGE Project: IT Modernization
3/17/25
Appointed:
Christopher Stanley starts as Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac at FHFA.
Appointed: Christopher Stanley 3/17/25-3/18/25
Position Title: Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
Source: Fannie Mae board member with DOGE ties leaves one day after being appointed Housing Wire, 3/20/25
Note: resigned abruptly the day after being appointed
3/18/25
Offboarding:
Christopher Stanley leaves role as Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac at FHFA
Appointed: Christopher Stanley 3/17/25-3/18/25
Position Title: Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
Source: Fannie Mae board member with DOGE ties leaves one day after being appointed Housing Wire, 3/20/25
Note: resigned abruptly the day after being appointed
4/01/25
Sighting:
DOGE member Christopher Stanley is listed as a Senior Advisor in the Deputy Attorney General’s Office and he reportedly holds a security clearance.
Person: Christopher Stanley
Source: Exclusive: DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software Reuters, 4/02/25
Agency: DOJ
c.4/02/25
Detailed To:
Christopher Stanley detailed from OPM to DOJ
OPM? Detailed To: DOJ Christopher Stanley c.4/02/25
Position Title: Senior Advisor, Deputy Attorney General
Source: Exclusive: DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software Reuters, 4/02/25
6/24/25
Identification:
In a status report for AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, the government reports that multiple DOGE staff at OPM have left the government by this date. Of course, their actual departure dates might be earlier, but it’s a direct acknowledgment of multiple staff departures in the preceding months.
Person: Anthony Armstrong, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Chris Young, Christina Hanna, Christopher Stanley, Jacob Altik, Justin Monroe, Stephen Duarte
Source: AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, doc 138 Court Document, 6/27/25
Agency: OPM

Open Questions

  • Christopher Stanley has reportedly left DOGE in the wake of Musk's departure. Are there more details?