DOGE Track

Samuel Berry

Coder

He was named as a member of the DOGE team at USDA in response to a FOIA request from American Oversight. Based on a name and image match from the USDA Flickr account of him being sworn in, he seems to be a software developer and founder of a small web company Ten Five Engineering.

Positions

Position Notes
USDA
Sources
USDA 3/XX/25 Special Advisor
USDA 5/19/25-9/12/25 converted to permanent position Senior Advisor on Government Efficiency
USDA 9/12/25 promoted to Chief Information Officer

Events

Date Event
4/10/25
Source
In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time.
 Daniel Abrahamson, Gavin Kliger, Jeremy Lichtman, Jordan Wick, Michael Cole, Samuel Berry, Timothy Ronan
9/12/25
Source
In an email to all staff, USDA announces that the existing Chief Information Officer for the agency will now be moved to a new role named Chief Innovation Officer and that DOGE team member Samuel Berry will be the next CIO for the agency.