Riley Sennott

Coder, age 26

Positions

Appointed:
2/10/25 $167,603 «start inferred from signing in visitor in GSA logs»
Source: Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26
Source: How to Cover DOGE When It’s Family Columbia Journalism Review, 3/25/25
Source: FOIA response by GSA for visitor logs in 2025 Document Cloud, 4/10/26
Detailed To:
c.3/14/25 likely detailed from GSA Senior Advisor
Source: A veteran Tesla engineering manager has joined DOGE, and he's set to attend a NASA layoffs meeting Business Insider, 3/14/25
Detailed To:
date unknown likely detailed from GSA Senior Advisor «identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed»
Source: SBA Response to American Oversight FOIA Request Document Cloud, 7/15/25

Events

1/06/25
Identification:
Future DOGE recruit Riley Sennott’s public calendar lists a 15-minute DOGE recruiting meeting on this day.
1/17/25
Sighting:
The public calendar of Riley Sennott mentions a 30-minute “SGE Ethics Discussion” meeting with other new DOGE members Derek Geissler, Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy included on the invitation. SGE stands for Special Government Employee.
1/27/25
Action:
Riley Sennott and Brooks Morgan arrive to a meeting/work at GSA before they are officially hired in DOGE. They are signed in and possibly meet with Derek Geissler and Adam Ramada
2/02/25
Interagency Coordination:
Aram Moghaddassi, Marko Elez and Riley Sennott arrive at GSA to work with unspecified GSA staff on a Sunday. They are signed in by Thomas Shedd and Luke Farritor. Riley Sennott is still not an official employee of GSA at the time of the meeting.
2/06/25
Interagency Coordination:
A large contingent of DOGE staff from multiple agencies meet at GSA HQ. It is unclear if they are representing their specific agencies or if this is a DOGE all-hands gathering. It is also unclear how many DOGE staffers in GSA are in attendance.
2/08/25
Sighting:
Luke Farritor hosts a contingent of other DOGE staffers – Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi and Riley Sennott – to work at GSA on a Saturday. Notably, this is a day after Marko Elez had resigned his position (but was secretly hired at DOGE) and Riley Sennott had not formally started his role at GSA yet.
2/09/25
Sighting:
DOGE members Baris Akis, Katrine Trampe, Jordan Wick and Riley Sennott are signed in to work at GSA headquarters on a Sunday. It’s unclear if they are there for a meeting or just to use the DOGE working space inside of GSA. They are hosted at the building by Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Ethan Shaotran.
2/10/25
Appointed:
Riley Sennott starts at GSA.
Appointed: Riley Sennott 2/10/25
Salary: $167,603
Source: Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26
Source: How to Cover DOGE When It’s Family Columbia Journalism Review, 3/25/25
Source: FOIA response by GSA for visitor logs in 2025 Document Cloud, 4/10/26
Note: start inferred from signing in visitor in GSA logs
3/14/25
Identification:
A Business Insider article reports that Alexander Simonpour has shown up at NASA and also has a GSA address (meaning he was likely detailed from the GSA). Riley Sennott and Scott Coulter also are listed in the NASA online directory.
c.3/14/25
Detailed To:
Riley Sennott detailed from GSA to NASA
GSA? Detailed To: NASA Riley Sennott c.3/14/25
Position Title: Senior Advisor
Source: A veteran Tesla engineering manager has joined DOGE, and he's set to attend a NASA layoffs meeting Business Insider, 3/14/25
3/20/25
Identification:
Wired Magazine list DOGE staff stationed within GSA, all of whom were listed on GSA payroll on March 20, the same day Stephen Ehikian claimed there were no DOGE staff in the agency.
4/08/25
Oversight:
A letter from Democrats on the House Committee of Science, Space, and Technology expresses specific concern about the lack of qualifications of DOGE staff at the agency. It explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour as the DOGE team at the agency.
Person: Alexander Simonpour, Riley Sennott, Scott Coulter
Source: Letter to the Acting Administrator of NASA Democrats on the House Committee for Science, Space and Technology, 4/08/25
Agency: NASA
5/16/25
Identification:
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov