People roster
Named individuals tied to NDS and the DOGE → NDS pipeline. Pulled from CISA's dotgov-data CSV (security contacts), public reporting (WIRED, NOTUS, Nextgov, Daily Beast, Newsweek), court dockets, and the Will Hold investigation. Every row carries verified sources.
| Person | Role | DOGE alumnus? | What's verified | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Gebbia | Chief Design Officer of the United States; Director, National Design Studio | yes (six months at DOGE before NDS) | Airbnb co-founder. Position requires no Senate confirmation. Reports to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Will direct overhaul of ~26,000–27,000 federal websites under EO 14338 / 'America by Design'. | EO 14338 · Newsweek — Trump taps Gebbia · Federal News Network — NDS hiring |
| Greg Hogan | Head of Login.gov (April 2026–present), inside National Design Studio | yes — former OPM CIO during early DOGE | Was one of three DOGE-affiliated individuals carved out of the original 2025-03-24 preliminary injunction in American Federation of Teachers v. Bessent, 8:25-cv-00430 (D. Md.), which had blocked DOGE from accessing OPM personnel records. The Fourth Circuit vacated that injunction on 2025-08-12 (No. 25-1282); since then there has been no court-imposed restriction on DOGE access in this case, and the 'exception' framing is moot. Hogan remains the head of Login.gov inside NDS — the federal government's primary sign-in / identity-proofing system, with 150M+ accounts. See claim 97. | Nextgov/FCW — Hogan named head of Login.gov · GovExec — Hogan leaves OPM · AFT v. Bessent docket |
| Akash Bobba | Security contact for usadf.gov; named in Borges SSA whistleblower disclosure; NDS staffer | yes — 22-year-old Indian-origin engineer; former Palantir intern; on Musk's original DOGE team | Two independent verifications. (1) CISA dotgov-data CSV lists Bobba's security-contact email for usadf.gov as akash@ndstudio.gov — a White House EOP mailbox. USADF's dissolution was attempted by EO in early 2025, blocked in court, but most staff was cleared out; a White House staffer now sees who applies for USADF grants and the agency's security configuration. (2) Independently named in the Borges SSA whistleblower disclosure (Aug 2025): per NYT 2025-06-16 cited there, then-SSA-CIO Michael Russo directed Bobba — described as 'a 21-year-old former Palantir intern' — to conduct his own analysis of Musk/Trump's SSA-fraud claims using personal data on Americans. Per Will Hold reporting, in October 2025 Bobba joined a recorded call with state election directors to present a federal voter registration system NDS was building; on retention he answered: 'I don't know what they retain and what they are logging.' | CISA dotgov-data CSV — line for usadf.gov · Borges SSA whistleblower disclosure (Aug 2025) · Revolving Door Project — Bobba dossier |
| Edward Coristine | NDS staffer; DOGE-SSA staffer named in Borges whistleblower disclosure; also assigned to a Trump-EU 'banned-content viewer' project | yes; one of the original DOGE engineers; GS-15 federal employee since May 2025 | Self-styled 'Big Balls' (named himself on Fox News' Watters' Primetime). Cybercrime adjacency. Per Borges disclosure footnote 3 citing Krebs on Security 2025-02-28, Bloomberg 2025-02-07, and Wired: was part of the cybercrime group 'The Com,' a Telegram handle associated with him hired a hacker in 2022 to conduct a DDoS cyberattack, and he was fired from cybersecurity firm Path Networks for leaking secrets to a competitor. Russia adjacency. His Tesla.Sexy LLC owns dozens of web domains including Russian-registered sites operating an AI Discord bot in the Russian market. Per Newsweek, great-grandson of a former KGB agent who defected to the United States. SSA role. Resigned from DOGE in June 2025, reappeared at SSA days later. Borges directly emailed him 2025-08-11 for information about the unsecured NUMIDENT cloud; received no response. SSA Office of General Counsel reportedly advised employees not to respond to Borges' inquiries. | Borges SSA whistleblower disclosure · Krebs on Security — Coristine cybercrime history · Daily Beast — Coristine's new role · Wikipedia — Edward Coristine |
| Aram Moghaddassi | Chief Information Officer, Social Security Administration (June 2025–present) | yes — former DOGE at the Department of Labor before moving to SSA | Former Neuralink and X engineer. As CIO he self-authorized the Provisional Authorization to Operate for the DOGE-controlled NUMIDENT cloud environment on 2025-07-15, stating in writing: 'I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation and I accept all risks associated with this implementation and operation.' Per Borges, the three internal SSA-required mitigations (no production data, DIS involvement, FISMA ATO) were never met. In April 2025, Moghaddassi sent acting Commissioner Leland Dudek a list of 6,300 immigrants whose parole status was revoked the same day; though he claimed the list was only 'terrorist watch list' people, it included eight minors including a 13-year-old (NYT). | Borges whistleblower disclosure · DevX — Moghaddassi appointed SSA CIO · NYT — DOGE / SSA / migrants list |
| Michael Russo | SSA Chief Information Officer (Feb 2025 – late Mar 2025); 'Special Advisor' for tech modernization at SSA thereafter | DOGE-aligned (per Wired) | Appointed by Trump 2025-01-30 despite no government experience — previously an executive at payment processor Shift4. Approved the transfer of live NUMIDENT data to the DOGE-controlled cloud environment on 2025-06-25 with a one-word reply: 'Approved….' He had no longer been CIO at that time (replaced by Scott Coulter in late March 2025). Per Borges, Russo disregarded an investigation by SSA public servants into the Musk/Trump fraud claims and instead directed Akash Bobba (then 21, ex-Palantir intern) to conduct his own analysis using SSA's personal data on Americans. | Borges whistleblower disclosure · Nextgov — Russo moved to senior advisor · NYT — DOGE chaotic takeover of Social Security |
| John Solly | Office of the SSA CIO (Mar 2025–present); DOGE-aligned hire | yes (per Wired 'This Is DOGE 2.0', Jul 2025) | Initiated the 2025-06-10 request for a cloud environment for NUMIDENT data that triggered the SSA Risk Acceptance Request Form and the subsequent unsecured-cloud incident. One of three DOGE-affiliated names Borges directly emailed 2025-08-11 requesting information about the security concerns; received no response. Sometimes spelled 'Solley' in sub-citations. | Borges whistleblower disclosure · Wired — This Is DOGE 2.0 |
| Payton Rehling | SSA DOGE member (early 2025) | yes | Named in Borges disclosure p.10 alongside Moghaddassi as one of the two specific DOGE members who requested PSNAP and SNAP MI database access on 2025-03-14 through a process that bypassed SSA's Systems Access Management (SAM) approval. Less public reporting on Rehling than on the other named DOGE-SSA personnel — worth follow-up. | Borges whistleblower disclosure |
| Steve Davis | Musk lieutenant; senior DOGE strategist; statement-of-record for the 'join all data across government' DOGE doctrine | yes — at the senior-operator level, not the engineer cohort | Davis is Musk's longtime aide from SpaceX/X/Boring Company — distinct from the 19-22-year-old DOGE engineer cohort. The Washington Post 2025-05-07 reported Davis directly told SSA staffers DOGE 'would soon start linking various sources of Social Security data for access and analysis,' with the explicit goal of building a centralized cross-agency database providing unprecedented access to Social Security records, taxes, medical diagnoses, and other private information. He is the senior on-record voice articulating the broader DOGE master-database strategy. Also cited in Borges disclosure footnote 22. Post-DOGE activity: WIRED reported Davis is among the backers of Special, the a16z-led holding company founded by ex-DOGE leads Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox to apply 'learnings from DOGE' to private-sector verticals (first target: senior care, via FigureHealth). Other named backers from the DOGE alumni network include Antonio Gracias (Valor Equity Partners), Baris Akis, Anthony Armstrong (xAI), Donald Park, Adam Ramada and Brooks Morgan (BANNER VC); outside-DOGE backers include Brian Armstrong (Coinbase) and Shyam Sankar (Palantir CTO). | WaPo — DOGE amassing sensitive government data · Wikipedia — Steve Davis (executive) · WIRED — The DOGE Boys Get VC Funding to Support Their Latest Enterprise |
| Tiffany Flick | Former Acting Chief of Staff to the SSA Acting Commissioner; sworn-declaration whistleblower | no — career civil servant (~30 years at SSA) | Retired on or about 2025-02-16 and filed a sworn declaration in AFSCME v. SSA, 1:25-cv-00596 (D. Md.). Per AFSCME press release and reporting, her declaration states DOGE employees pressured her and then-Acting Commissioner Michelle King for 'immediate access' to all SSA systems and were 'evasive' when asked why. She describes Michael Russo in court filings as 'obsessed with unsubstantiated claims of Social Security fraud rather than with the actual operational needs of the agency.' Direct quote: 'A disregard for our careful privacy systems and processes now threatens the security the data SSA houses about millions of Americans.' Inside-baseball witness covering the late-January through mid-February 2025 DOGE descent on SSA — the period immediately before the events Borges documents. | AFSCME v. SSA — Flick declaration as Exhibit J · AFSCME press release describing the Flick declaration |
| Michelle King | Former Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration | no — career civil servant; left in protest | Resigned February 2025 rather than hand DOGE the broad sensitive-data access DOGE personnel were demanding — possibly including addresses, banking information, medical records, income, and employment history. Resignation-in-protest by a federal-agency-head strongly corroborates the Flick and Borges accounts. King and Flick worked alongside each other; both refused DOGE's demands; both left the agency in the same window. | PBS News — SSA head steps down over DOGE access · Mashable — what was at risk |
| Charles 'Chuck' Borges | Chief Data Officer, Social Security Administration (Jan 2025–present) — WHISTLEBLOWER | no — career civil servant | 22 years U.S. Navy service including Operation Iraqi Freedom (Air Medal with Combat Distinguishing Device). Prior CDO at NAVAIR. Civil-service positions at GSA, OMB, CDC (during COVID), and as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow. CDO at SSA since 2025-01-27. Filed the formal whistleblower disclosure through Government Accountability Project to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and four Congressional committees (House Oversight, Ways & Means; Senate HSGAC, Finance) on 2025-08-26. Subsequently filed a Prohibited Personnel Practices retaliation complaint (per Katz Banks Kumin LLP). Active throughout 2026 litigation. | Borges whistleblower disclosure (sanitized, 18 pages) · Katz Banks Kumin — Borges retaliation complaint |
| Kaitlyn Koller | National Design Studio (post-DOGE role) | yes — former Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide; joined NDS from DOGE | Identified by WIRED reporting (cited by NOTUS) as part of the NDS team that moved over from DOGE's General Services Administration foothold. | NOTUS — Sloppy Code at NDS |
| Zachary Terrell | Connected to National Design Studio orbit; previously DOGE roles at HHS and NSF | yes | Public reporting is less definitive about Terrell's formal NDS position than for Koller or Coristine; mentioned as part of the broader DOGE-to-NDS flow. | ExecutiveGov — Terrell as HHS CTO · Techdirt — Terrell vetoing NSF grants |
| Susie Wiles | White House Chief of Staff — Gebbia's reporting line | n/a | Per multiple outlets, Gebbia reports directly to Wiles, not through an agency or to OMB. Because the Executive Office of the President has no inspector general, this places NDS outside the federal oversight structure that normally covers digital-services initiatives like USDS. | — |
This roster is hand-curated; updates happen alongside claim updates in the DB. To add a new person, edit build_people_roster in site_gen.py and re-run.