How Google Calendar gave away information about a DOGE staffer’s connections with NASA, Elon Musk’s Tesla and tech job hunt

A senior advisor at NASA who is part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative maintained a publicly accessible Google Calendar that revealed his connections to the programme and scheduled job interviews at companies including Tesla, Palantir and Anduril, a report has said.
According to a report by Business Insider, 26-year-old Riley Sennott appears in an internal NASA directory as a “senior advisor” in the administrator's suite at headquarters and is also involved with DOGE.
Apparently, unlike many DOGE workers who have deleted their LinkedIn profiles and made social media accounts private in recent months, Sennott failed to secure his Google Calendar, which was linked to his personal email address. Anyone with the address could view his appointments dating back to 2016, the report added.

The publication claimed that the calendar contained entries, including a January 6 meeting titled "Riley Sennott and DOGE Recruiting," which came from a Gmail address apparently used by DOGE for recruitment purposes, essentially providing rare insight into the group's hiring process, which has remained largely secretive despite advertising open positions.
Another significant calendar entry from January 17 showed Sennott was scheduled to attend a "SGE ethics discussion." SGE reportedly stands for "special government employee," a designation reportedly used for Elon Musk.
Sennott's calendar suggests potential connections to Tesla, with several scheduled meetings with Tesla employees and references to “a rotating project-based role.” His private X account bio describes him as “energy @tesla.”
The calendar also documented Sennott's apparent job search activities, including interviews with major tech firms throughout 2024.
These included a scheduled Zoom call about a “venture role” with Founders Fund (an early SpaceX investor), a “recruiter call” with Peter Thiel's Palantir, an “Opportunity Chat” with defense technology company Anduril, and recent meetings with partners at venture capital firm Thrive Capital.
This comes as a report by Wired has claimed that a new AI-powered chatbot called GSAi has been rolled out to approximately 1,500 government workers as Musk-led DOGE continues efforts to re-size the federal workforce.