GuShiio.com ① The identities of six key members of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were exposed, causing controversy. The six were aged 19 to 25;
② Musk said on social media that DOGE has some of the best software engineers in the world.”This is indeed true.”
Cailian News, February 10 (Editor Zhao Hao)Last week, some American media took the lead in digging out the identities of six key members of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), causing huge controversy.
It is understood that the six members exposed are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger and Ethan Shaotran.
Source: Social Media
Taken together, the six are between 19 and 25 years old, all have engineer backgrounds, and most of them have experience in companies owned by DOGE Minister Elon Musk. The report believes that these “inexperienced” engineers can access sensitive information in the U.S. government and are helping Musk “take over the government.”
The information of the six members exposed is as follows:
Akash Bobba, 21
Boba is Indian-American and will graduate from West Windsor Plain Township High School in 2021. Some media reported on his graduation speech, and Boba criticized the impact of Short Video and social media on society, saying that they would be used to “jump out of the comfort zone” to pursue answers.
Boba’s previous LinkedIn information shows that he worked as an investment engineering intern at the well-known hedge fund Bridgewater, and previously interned at Meta and Palantir. (Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel is a long-time Republican funder who co-founded PayPal with Musk)
Boba is responsible for designing algorithms to monitor the flow of government funds. After being exposed, many people who knew Boba expressed their praise for him on social media: “Boba is one of the smartest people I have ever met”,”Boba rewritten everything in the code base in one night, and ranked first in the class.”
Edward Coristine is 19 years old
Kristin is the youngest of the six, and his resume shows that he spent a three-month summer internship at Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink. There is a story online that he is the son of well-known financier Charles Coristine.
According to the report, internal records from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management show that Kristin’s professional title at DOGE is “expert” and his specific responsibilities have not yet been clarified. Sources revealed that Kristin had “asked government employees to check the code they wrote and justify their work.”
Luke Farritor is 23 years old
Farito interned at Musk’s SpaceX, and LinkedIn data shows that he is the recipient of the $100,000 Thiel Young Entrepreneur Scholarship. (The Thiel Scholarship is the scholarship founded by Peter Thiel mentioned above)
In 2023, Farito used artificial intelligence to partially decipher a carbonized papyrus scroll from Pompeii before 2000. That year, Farito told reporters that he had dropped out of college to work for Silicon Valley entrepreneur Nat Friedman (former CEO of GitHub and Xamarin).
Nat Friedman posted in 2023 that (partially deciphering the Pompeii script) was completed by SpaceX interns!
Sources said that Farrito personally oversaw the shutdown of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the next target has been targeted at the systems of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which are responsible for contracts.
Gautier Cole Killian, 24
According to the report, Killian’s position in DOGE is a “volunteer.” The media found that he graduated from high school in 2019 and studied at McGill University until 2021. He also worked as an engineer at Jump Trading, a company specializing in algorithms and high-frequency financial trading.
It is said that Musk has a high trust in Killian. His main task is to help the DOGE team crack the Treasury’s security line and allow them to access the government payment network.
Gavin Kliger is 25 years old
Krieger’s LinkedIn page shows him as “Special Advisor to the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.” In 2019, he briefly worked as an engineer on Twitter, and in the past five years, he worked as a senior software engineer at AI/big data/cloud software company Databricks.
Ethan Shaotran is 22 years old
In a report last year, Shao Chuan claimed to be a senior majoring in computer science at Harvard University. The artificial intelligence company he founded, Energize AI, received a $100,000 grant from OpenAI and won runner-up in the hackathon held by xAI.
Data shows that Shao Chuan once “studied autonomous vehicles” at Harvard University’s Edge Computing Laboratory-perhaps he caught Musk’s attention there. According to the report, Shao Chuan is responsible for DOGE’s “government AI” plan.
At the same time, some Republican supporters expressed strong dissatisfaction with the “exposure of the identities of the six teenagers.” Some of them believed that this was equivalent to “human flesh search.” There were also a large number of personal threats against the six people on the Internet.
As DOGE’s influence grew, so did the voices of opponents. U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer criticized,”An unelected shadow government is making a hostile takeover of the federal government.”
Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist in the United States, retorted that it was the class of experts who claimed to be experienced that brought the United States to “ruin” and that young talents with an entrepreneurial mentality could save it.
