‘Big Balls’ DOGE Guy, 19, Is Now a ‘Senior Adviser’ in State Department
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It’s the same Elon Musk minion who was fired from an internship for allegedly leaking sensitive information to a competitor.
Elon Musk’s teenage acolyte known online as “Big Balls” has taken on a significant role in the U.S. State Department that has some officials on edge, a report claims.
Edward Coristine, 19, now works as a “senior adviser” in the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, The Washington Post reported. That bureau is a data hub that serves as the IT department for Washington’s diplomatic apparatus.
The role comes in addition to Coristine’s work at the Department of Government Efficiency, where reports identified him as one of Musk minions who have forced federal workers to justify why they should keep their jobs in one-on-one meetings.
Musk and others in MAGA have defended the youth of the DOGE team, claiming the whiz kids’ ages should not disqualify them from doing good work.
There are concerns with Coristine that go beyond his youth, however. A Bloomberg report revealed Friday the teen was once fired from an internship at Path Network after an internal probe found he leaked sensitive information to a competitor.
An anonymous official who spoke to the Post said the 2022 leak, which Coristine has denied doing, is proof his proximity to sensitive material is “dangerous.”
Others who spoke to the Post said they fear Coristine’s position could “give him a foothold for obtaining unauthorized access to classified material” and perhaps “obtain compromising information on other countries and foreign activities.”
Landing a senior role in the State Department is quite the career leap for Coristine, who only recently dropped out of Northeastern University—where he was a freshman engineering major—to join Musk’s team of young and controversial programmers.
People gather to protest outside the Office of Personnel Management headquarters after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency was granted oversight of the office.
He is the son of Charles Coristine, a businessman who purchased the once-failing snack company LesserEvil in 2011 and has since turned it around to reportedly rake in over $100 million a year.
It appears the younger Coristine has his sights on more than running a popcorn company like his father, however. WIRED reported he “has appeared on calls where workers were made to go over code they had written and justify their jobs.” He holds an official position in DOGE and in the Office of Personnel Management.
Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old DOGE engineer, is also listed in the State Department’s directory as working at the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, the Post reported. He is the son of a longtime engineering professor at the University of Nebraska. He studied there himself before dropping out to take gigs in Silicon Valley—a decision that followed him famously deciphering a portion of the Vesuvius Scrolls.
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Elon Musk’s team of young DOGE disruptors have been unmasked, much to the ire of the billionaire and other MAGA figures.
One is a 19-year-old college freshman and heir to a popcorn fortune. Another was hosting Model UN sessions in 2019 and a third was given money by his parents to invest in stocks while at his high school in Silicon Valley.
The world’s richest man lashed out at an X account which suggested the six young men, who now have access the Treasury Department’s payment system, among other things, should be “paid a visit” by FBI agents.
“You have committed a crime,” Musk fired back at a comment from the account Monday, shortly before the post in question was removed for allegedly violating the platform’s rules.
Musk appeared to soften his stance on the men being identified later Monday, writing it was “time to confess” that the “media reports saying that @DOGE has some of world’s best software engineers are in fact true.” But he was wrong—not all the group are even “software engineers.” Three do not even have degrees. And one who does is trying to cash in on his new job by charging people to read his Substack entry which boasts, “Why DOGE: Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America.”
Musk’s team of youngsters, as first reported by WIRED on Sunday, is Akash Bobba, 21, a student at the University of California, Berkeley; Edward Coristine, 19, a student at Northeastern University in Boston; and Ethan Shaotran, 22, who said in September he was a senior at Harvard.
The ones who actually have degrees, or at least have left college, are: Luke Farritor, 23, who attended the University of Nebraska without graduating; Gautier Cole Killian, a 24-year-old who attended McGill University; and Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old who attended Berkeley;
The group’s relative lack of experience—especially no previous positions in government work—has Democrats crying foul they were granted access to sensitive records while remaining largely in the shadows, away from public scrutiny.
All six desperately tried to cover their digital tracks recently, almost all of them deleting LinkedIn profiles, X accounts and even Facebook.
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Gavin Kliger’s LinkedIn lists his employer as the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, where he is a “Special Advisor to the Director.” His old jobs include a brief stint as an engineer at Twitter in 2019 and, most recently, as a senior software engineer at Databricks, a cloud software company, for five years—which, he claims, gave him a seven-figure salary.
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Kliger is already making a name for himself in his new role. He was named Monday by The New York Times as the person who blasted out a staff-wide email to USAID workers that ordered them to work from home as the agency is scrutinized by DOGE and the Trump Administration—a correspondence that underscores just how much power Musk’s team of young engineers may hold.
But what Kliger really wants the world to know about is his belief in male MAGA warriors Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth’s brilliance, using his Substack to post about them both. Gaetz, who was investigated over allegations of teenage sex trafficking, was, according to Kliger, a victim of “the deep state.” Hegseth, a serially unfaithful former Fox News star accused of sexual assault, drunkenness, and receiving lap dances while in uniform, was, he wrote “the warrior Washington doesn’t want but desperately need.”
Kliger, whose Cornell graduate father is an attorney for Experian, appears happy to monetize his DOGE experience: he has made the entry about DOGE on his Substack for $12-a-month subscribers only.
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Shaotran penned an essay for Business Insider last summer where he detailed how he “balances his startup with full-time studies.” He is the founder of Energize AI, a scheduling assistant for professionals that was awarded a $100,000 grant from OpenAI in 2023.
He said last year that he was a senior at Harvard University. Prior to that, he graduated in 2020 from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California.
An online profile says he was “working on autonomous vehicles” in Harvard University’s Edge Computing Lab—perhaps where he caught the eye of Musk, who is obsessed with developing self-driving vehicles at Tesla.
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Farritor, meanwhile, was a co-winner of a $700,000 prize last year after he used AI to partially decipher a 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scroll from Pompeii—part of the Vesuvius scrolls—that had stumped scientists for centuries.
Luke Farritor. / X/@TechBroDripFarritor interned for Musk’s SpaceX prior to winning the challenge. He told The Free Press he dropped out of college to begin working for the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Nat Friedman, the former CEO of GitHub and Xamarin.
His dad, Shane Farritor, is a mechanical engineering professor who joined the University of Nebraska in 1998.
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Coristine, the group’s lone teenager, has a résumé that includes a summer internship at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company. Online sleuths unearthed that his father appears to be Charles Coristine—the businessman who purchased the once-failing snack company LesserEvil in 2011 and has turned it around to reportedly rake in over $100 million a year.
Edward Coristine, / RedditWIRED reported that Coristine is listed in internal Office of Personnel Management records as being an “expert,” so the scope of his work within DOGE is particularly vague. Sources told the website that Coristine “has appeared on calls where workers were made to go over code they had written and justify their jobs.”
The Model UN Organizer
Another so-called OPM “expert,” according to WIRED, is Bobba. His since-deleted LinkedIn said he was an investment engineering intern at the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, with previous internships at both Meta and Palantir, which was founded by the Republican mega-donor Peter Thiel.
Akash Bobba / BestDelegateA number of people sung Bobba’s praises online after he was identified as a DOGE staffer, including one X user who posted in his defense Monday that he is “one of the smartest dudes I’ve ever met.” But he has come a long ay in a short time: In 2019, he was organizing the local model United Nations near his home in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. His father is a computing science academic.
He graduated from West Windsor Plainsboro High School, a public school, in 2021. He spoke at commencement and submitted his remarks to be highlighted. Back then, he urged his classmates to “appreciate the complexity in life.”
“We live in an age where simplicity reigns supreme, where 30 second TikToks and 280-character tweets come to define our identities,” he said. “This increasing willingness to simplify even the most complex narratives into sensational tidbits, perpetuates misinformation and in the process divides the communities, families, and relationships we cherish. What’s the solution, you might ask? Seek discomfort.”
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WIRED reported, citing sources, that Bobba, Coristine, Farritor, and Shaotran “all currently have working GSA emails and A-suite level clearance at the General Services Administration, which means that they work out of the agency’s top floor and have access to all physical spaces and IT systems.”
Cole Killian / Instagram/building21.caKillian, meanwhile, has an email directly with DOGE and is a reportedly a “volunteer.”
The website reported he graduated high school in 2019 and more recently worked as an engineer at Jump Trading, which specializes in algorithmic and high-frequency financial trades.
The MAGA world has been up in arms about the engineers being identified, which some have equated to doxxing.
TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk was among those rushing to attack WIRED and defend the young engineers.
“Remember when Wired was focused on cutting-edge technology and how young college dropout founders could change the world?” he posted to X. “Not anymore. Now, they’re doxxing DOGE employees and whining that they are too “young” and ‘inexperienced’ to reform America’s government.America’s experienced expert class have led this country to ruin. Young geniuses with a startup mentality could save it.”
There have been a flurry of threats against the young DOGE engineers online. Musk reshared a post on X that included screenshots of nasty Reddit comments that included one calling for the men to be shot.
DOGE has seemingly grown in power by the day. The department, created via an executive order on day one of Trump 2.0, was recently granted access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration buildings and access to IT systems which houses sensitive information like addresses, contact info, and even social security numbers.
Chuck Schumer is among the politicians on the left who have criticized DOGE, with his most recent remarks coming on Monday.
“Before our very eyes, an unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government,” he said, adding that DOGE gaining access to sensitive info is “like letting a tiger into the petting zoo and hoping for the best.”
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