Steve Davis

Aerospace Engineer with master's from Stanford. Hired 2003 as roughly 14th-22nd employee at SpaceX. President of The Boring Company since 2019. Reputation for extreme cost-engineering frugality at SpaceX, Twitter, and TBC.

Following January 2025 Trump inauguration, became operational deputy at the Department of Government Efficiency (the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)). Amy Gleason was named acting administrator on paper, but ProPublica + GovExec primary-source reporting confirmed Davis as day-to-day operational lead under Musk. During Jan-May 2025: ~317,000 federal employee departures (~12% civilian workforce), targeted dismantlement of grant-making bodies (e.g., 2/3 of NEH staff cut in days).

Departed The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) end of May 2025 alongside Musk; returned to Boring Company. The pipeline pattern: operator-class engineering expertise routed into federal cost-cutting and regulatory-dismantlement, then surgically extracted back to private subterranean infrastructure. No direct TBC prime contracts were awarded during his the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) tenure per SAM.gov / FPDS — supporting an intelligence-and-regulatory-dismantlement reading rather than crude conflict-of-interest.