An ex-clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, a former star swimmer, and a Miami finance bro are among the latest Department of Government Efficiency staffers unmasked.
The trio were identified along with others Business Insider spotted on a White House list of DOGE staffers who are helping Elon Musk slash government spending at the expense of long-standing programs and tens of thousands of federal workers.
There are now around 30 confirmed staffers in DOGE. Unlike previous bombshell reports about the group’s employees, like the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls,” the latest bunch skews slightly older with more experience under their belts.
Austin Raynor, for example, is a 36-year-old lawyer who clerked for Thomas. He was quoted in The New York Times in 2022 and he recently detailed—as a legal expert—to NTD News viewers how Donald Trump could challenge birthright citizenship.
Raynor is a 2013 graduate of the University of Virginia’s law school in his native Charlottesville. While there, he was a member of the conservative Federalist Society and worked on the Virginia Law Review. He has argued in front of the Supreme Court at least eight times and was most recently a senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian organization.
Insider reports Raynor is one of five lawyers listed on DOGE’s White House staff.
Adam Ramada, 35, also appears to be more seasoned than Musk’s young DOGE engineers. Insider identified Ramada as a Miami venture capitalist whose firm took a stake in a SpaceX supplier last year.
Ramada donated more than $1,000 to Republican fundraising committees last year, records show. His role on Musk’s team is not totally clear, but his name has appeared in court documents that bolster DOGE’s defense it has the right to view sensitive government information.
Kendall Lindemann, 24, is a former member of the swim and dive team at the University of Tennessee who now works in DOGE. She graduated from the university’s business school in 2022, where she was the recipient of the Bank of America Student Leadership Award, and counts McKinsey as one of her ex-employers.
Lindemann’s “in” with DOGE may be through its senior official Brad Smith. Her LinkedIn page shows she left McKinsey, where she was a business analyst, in 2024 to join Russell Street Ventures, which is the health industry investment firm Smith runs.
Unlike other DOGE staffers in their 20s, Lindemann has not wiped away her online presence. She is married and has posted about her Christian faith regularly. She attended high school in Texas and lists Danville, California, as her hometown.
She competed in the Olympic Trials as a teenager and told her high school newspaper she hoped to one day be an Olympian, with a grueling training schedule—nine practices a week, two hours each—that matched that ambition.
Also revealed as part of DOGE is Kyle Schutt, 37, a tech startup worker with an AI background. Insider reports he was most recently the chief technology officer at Kerplunk, an AI interviewing software startup. He received a doctorate from Virginia Tech.
Schutt has been listed online as a software engineer who is based out of Arlington, Virginia, which is just outside the nation’s capital. He previously was a top official at Revv, a one-click donation platform for nonprofit and political organizations.
Other DOGE staffer identified elsewhere recently includes the lawyer Jacob Altik, a 31-year-old University of Michigan law graduate; Keenan Kmiec, the 45-year-old lawyer son of Barack Obama’s ambassador to Malta who clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts; and Stephanie Holmes, a 43-year-old who handles DOGE’s HR. Holmes has her own human resources consulting firm, BrighterSideHR, which once advised companies to pursue “non-woke” approaches to diversity and inclusion.
Also on the list viewed by Insider were Jehn Balajadia, who has been described as an assistant to Musk, and Steve Davis, 45, who is a top DOGE official.
