Billionaire Elon Musk has recruited six young faces to take over key roles in the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) he leads.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which Musk leads, is being taken over by a group of six 19- to 24-year-old Gen Z engineers. They include Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger and Ethan Shaotran. The group of engineers are all fresh out of school, or even still in college.
Akash Bobba
Akash Bobba - one of six members at the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - Photo: X
According to The Wired , one of the six young engineers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is Akash Bobba - 21 years old - an Indian-American.
He completed his education at West Windsor Plainsboro High School. He then attended the Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology program at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
After graduating, engineer Akash invested in hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. He also interned at billionaire Elon Musk's Meta and Palantir.
He is now a specialist at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). According to several Berkeley students, they call him “one of the smartest guys” they have ever met.
“During a school project, I accidentally deleted the entire codebase,” said Charis Zhang, another student at the University of California, Berkeley. “But Akash just stared at the screen, shrugged, and rewrote everything from scratch overnight.”
Edward Coristine
Edward Coristine is currently a specialist at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) - Photo: X
Edward Coristine is a freshman at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. He is studying mechanical engineering and physics. Edward spent three months working at Neuralink, Musk's brain-computer interface company.
According to OMP records, Mr Coristine also works as a specialist. The 19-year-old is the son of Charles Coristine, who bought LesserEvil, a food company on the brink of bankruptcy, and rebuilt it into an empire.
Luke Farritor
Student Luke Farritor, who famously deciphered a 2,000-year-old Greek scroll buried under Mount Vesuvius using AI - Photo: X
Another factor in the DOGE machine is 23-year-old Farritor, who once interned at Elon Musk's SpaceX.
His LinkedIn profile lists him as a recipient of the $100,000 Thiel Fellowship for young entrepreneurs.
He is best known for using AI to decipher part of the Vesuvius Scroll, a 2,000-year-old charred papyrus from Pompeii that has puzzled scientists for centuries.
He previously told The Free Press that he dropped out of college to start working for Silicon Valley entrepreneur Nat Friedman — the former CEO of GitHub and Xamarin.
Gautier Cole Killian
Gautier Cole Killian, McGill University student - Photo: X
Killian is currently listed as a volunteer for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to The Wired, he attended McGill University and worked as an engineer at Jump Trading, which specializes in high-frequency algorithmic financial trading.
Gavin Kliger
Mr. Kliger is a special advisor to the director of OPM (US Office of Personnel Management) - Photo: X
Young engineer Kliger is currently a special advisor to the director of OPM (US Office of Personnel Management).
After attending the University of California, Berkeley, he worked for AI company Databricks and also had a brief stint at X.
According to the New York Times , Mr. Kliger was the one who sent an email to all USAID employees asking them to work from home because the agency was being closely monitored by DOGE and the US government.
Ethan Shaotran
Ethan Shaotran - senior student at Harvard University - Photo: X
Last but not least is Ethan Shaotran, 22. After graduating from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, he attended Harvard University to study computer science.
According to Business Insider , he is a senior at Harvard and founded an OpenAI-backed startup called Energize AI. In 2023, his startup was awarded a $100,000 grant from OpenAI.
Shaotran was also the runner-up in a Hackathon organized by xAI, Elon Musk's AI company.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/6-chang-ngu-lam-gen-z-trong-ban-hieu-suat-chinh-phu-doge-cua-ti-phu-elon-musk-la-ai-20250206213305245.htm
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