Other Wreckers

He is the president of Homelight, which makes software for the real estate industry. Prior to that, he founded SnapSaves, a startup that was later acquired.

Not much is known about Alexandra Beynon’s work on behalf of DOGE at the Department of Education. Prior to that, she worked as the head of engineering at her husband’s startup company which sold guided ketamine therapy for use in the home. Although she hasn’t been publicly linked to DOGE work at other agencies, Alexandra was one of the recipients cc’ed in an email organizing mass layoffs at the CFPB sent by Gavin Kliger. It’s unclear if she has a similar role in the staffing reducations at the Department of Education.

Before working for DOGE, Miles Collins worked for a financial firm and also ran a fertility clinic in Los Angeles. This might be his connection to Musk, who has had stridently pro-natalist politics. His focus at the Department of Labor has reportedly been on spending and obligations. Unlike other members of DOGE hired at the DOL – Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi – he does not seem to have been detailed to other agencies, and it’s unclear what he has been doing recently. In April, he was given access to multiple sensitive databases focused on immigrant populations, likely in support of DOGE’s anti-immigrant surveillance project.

Justin Fulcher is a programmer and entrepeneur, whose last project was a telehealth startup called RingMD (although there are some questions about its success and his life story). Justin started his work for DOGE as an employee working within the VA and keeping a low profile. More recently, he has moved over to the Department of Defense, where he is a Special Advisor in Pete Hegseth’s office.

Joe Gebbia is very much a known person – he is a co-founder of AirBnB and has appeared among the DOGE staff on several television interviews. He started in February at OPM, where he has worked to accelerate a Biden-era project to modernize retirement claims processing. More recently, he has been part of an inter-agency collaboration between DHS, State and USCIS to develop a $5 Million “Gold Card” immigration visa.

Patrick George is reportedly the DOGE lead in the US Navy, where he has been involved in reviewing contracts. He comes from a venture capital background, and was also a Marine. Pete Hegseth has claimed that all of the DOGE staff within the Department of Defense will be veterans.

One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That term was extended, only to be forcibly ended on June 2nd.

Identified by ProPublica as one of the DOGE crew who have secretly been working at the Department of Defense, Jim Hickey was formerly a director at MITRE and before that a senior advisor for the Air Force

A former staffer at the Griffin’s Citadel hedge fund, he joined DOGE sometime in April and was assigned to a team that is using DOJ databases to assemble information on immigrants.

Stephanie Holmes is an employment attorney and consultant who previously offered courses on “non-woke” HR and redefining DEI to be more “Christian,” in a conventional conservative evangelical sense. After being an HR head at DOGE, she was detailed to the Department of the Interior, where she was named the acting Chief Human Capital Officer. At DOI, she had the CIO and other senior staff sidelined so she could be granted admin powers over a shared service that handles payroll for approximately half of the federal government. I’m sure it’s fine.

She is another SpaceX alumna; her most recent role before DOGE was as a purchasing director. She has been part of the EPA team and has also been linked to the GSA.

One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That short term was extended until June 4th, when it was revoked suddenly in the wake of Musk’s departure.

Jon Koval is a vice president at Valor Equity Partners, the private-equity firm operated by Antonio Gracias. He has been working alongside Gracias at the SSA, but recently he was detailed to the DOJ to help build up DOGE’s immigrant-tracking panopticon.

According to his LinkedIn, Scott Langmack is also continuing to serve as the CEO of Kukun, a real estate technology company, while he is also heading the DOGE team at HUD. At HUD, he seems to be focused mostly on searching for fraud they’re convinced is in the system and figuring out how to delete grants from HUD. It’s no coincidence that both of these missions will impact the poor and vulnerable the most.

A tech founder who created the site Gumroad, Sahil Lavingia showed up late to DOGE, with the goal of helping veterans at the VA. Despite displaying a remarkable and sometimes frankly infuriating naivete about both DOGE’s real mission and how civic technology operated before, his blog post about his experiences has given us the best view of how DOGE actually operated. Sadly, it’s also what got him fired from the “most transparent organization in government”

There aren’t many details about Loving’s work for DOGE, apart from a brief sighting at the EPA, where she was reviewing contracts. She is a coder who has spent a decade or so working in biotech. She is also the sister of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who recently offered to hire any DOGE alumni, no questions asked.

A childhood friend and chief of staff for Vivek Ramaswamy, he has apparently stayed involved in DOGE even as Vivek departed. He is linked to DOGE in January 2025 and was spotted at the Department of the Interior in April, but it’s unclear what he was doing in the interim for DOGE (or Vivek).

One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. It seems like that term was extended however, only to be revoked in the wake of Elon Musk’s departure. Ted was also named in several reports where he promised to steamroll any federal staff who got in his way.

Previously a financial analyst at SpaceX, he apparently has been detailed from GSA to the VA in recent months.

According to ProPublica, he previously worked for Palantir and Theorem, a financial services startup. They report he has met with officials from the TSA and CISA

Justin Monroe started at the OPM about a week after the Inauguration and was dispatched to the FBI the following day as a Senior Advisor to the Director. It’s unclear what role he might be playing in the Attorney General’s own “JUST-US” project to bring DOGE-style interventions to the DOJ. Prior to DOGE, he was a SpaceX employee.

The CEO of an educational startup, Brooks Morgan joined the DOGE team working within the Department of Education in early February. Unlike most DOGE staff who served as special government employees, he was instead hired as a part-time consultant working for free. It’s likely he was later formally appointed to a role, since he has been detailed from Education to both the Department of the Treasury and FDIC in early April.

One of the newer DOGE staffers who have been assigned to the IRS, Todd Newnam was the CEO of an IT Consulting firm located in South Carolina. Prior to that, he was associated with the Carlyle Group. His financial disclosure reveal that he also owns shares of Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, which is concerning form someone being given oversight powers at the IRS.

Rachel Riley has been heavily involved in DOGE’s operations within HHS, where she has worked very closely with Brad Smith, and she has been granted access to a wide range of databases for tracking contracts and operations. Before DOGE, she worked for McKinsey and Associates in government policy in Atlanta, which would place her in good proximity to the CDC.

As someone who joined up with DOGE in May, Ryan Shea presumably knew exactly what he was signing up for. Prior to DOGE, he was the executive of a cryptocurrency startup, which makes him a natural fit to support the DOGE team embedded within the Department of Health and Human Services.

Alexander Simonpour is a former engineering manager at Tesla who is now working for DOGE and embedded among the wrecking crew at GSA. He was one of the three DOGE staffers who were detailed from GSA to NASA in March, and he has also been involved in DOGE’s efforts at the USPS.

The founder of a company that apparently connects defense contractors with government buyers. Before that, he was the founder of a company that did job training for veterans. It’s unclear where he is working inside of the Pentagon. He served in the Navy.

One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That term was apparently extended until June 2, when their access was abruptly revoked.

A software expert in cloud-native geospatial analysis, he has been working at Social Security in March and apparently has not been listed on the internal directory to keep a low profile. He couldn’t help marking the time on his LinkedIn however, noting his DOGE career as “stealth mode” for a “key skunkswork project at a major org.”

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.

Brian Stube was a “quant” at the the hedge fund Citadel before 2012, which is also where Adam Hoffman works.

Joining DOGE sometime in early April, Christopher Sweet has been based in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), where he building a custom generative AI model to analyze the agency’s regulations and make recommendations of specific parts to cut.

Katrine came from a background working for real-estate investment firms. She also reportedly uses the title “Comtesse” because her father is a Count with ties to the Danish royal family. All of these are important skills that explain why she needed to be given high-level administrative access to a system at DOI that handles payroll for half of the federal government.

In May, a new rule at the VA mandated that all new contracts for IT and professional services (or that were for more than $10 million) must be formally approved by either Volpert or Christopher Roussos. Previously, he was the founder of a startup that offered social networking for senior citizens, and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Understandably, there have been concerns that he lacks the experience and expertise to effectively review contracts at the VA, especially since he is reportedly looking to aggressively cancel many of them quickly.

A former Army Special Forces captain, Yinon Weiss is the founder of a startup that sells software for automobile repair shops.

Owen West is a Marine Corps veteran and former financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. He served as an assistant secretary of defense in the first Trump administration and was reportedly tapped to lead the DOGE team at the Pentagon after the departure of Yinon Weiss.

There aren’t many public details about Linda Whitridge that provide clues to what she is doing for DOGE at the IRS. Her ethics disclosures have revealed that she owns shares of Intuit (who make TurboTax) which is a glaring conflict of interest for someone in her role.