A young technologist known online as ‘big balls’, who works for Elon Musk’s so -called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), has access to sensitive US government systems. But his professional and online history question whether he would succeed the background check that is usually needed to obtain security clearances, security experts told Wired.

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old graduate in high school, has erected at least five different companies for the past four years, with entities registered in Connecticut, Delaware and the United Kingdom, most of which are not listed on his now deleted LinkedIn profile. Coristine also briefly worked in 2022 at Path Network, a network monitoring firm known for the appointment of Reformed Blackhat hackers. Someone who also uses a telegram handle linked to Coristine also uses a Cyberattack-for-Hire service later that year.

Coristine did not respond to several requests for comment.

One of the companies that founded Coristine, Tesla.Sexy LLC, was erected in 2021, when he would have been about 16 years old. Coristine is listed as the founder and CEO of the company, according to Business Records reviewed by Wired.

Tesla.sexy LLC controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian registered domains. One of the domains, which is still active, offers a service called Halfie, which is a AI -Bot for discord servers targeting the Russian market. Although the operation of a Russian website would not violate the US sanctions that Americans do with Russian businesses, it could possibly be a factor in a security clearance overview.

“Foreign connections, whether it is foreign contact with friends or domain names registered abroad, will be marked by any agency during the security investigation process,” said Joseph Shelzi, a former US Army Intelligence Officer who has held security clearance for a decade and Managing the security clearance of other units under his command, Wired says.

A long -time former US intelligence analyst, who requested anonymity to talk about sensitive topics, agrees. “There is little chance that he could succeed a background check for privileged access to government systems,” they claim.

Another domain under Coristine’s control is faster.pw. The website is currently inactive, but an archive version from October 25, 2022 shows content in Chinese which states that the service has helped to provide ‘multiple encrypted border border networks’.

Before joining Doge, Coristine worked for a few months of 2024 at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Inplant, and as Wired previously reported, is now listed in the office of staff management records as an ‘expert’ at that agency, What staff members matter what the federal government matters. Employees of the General Services Administration say he also joined calls where they were made to justify their work and to review the code they wrote.

Other elements of Coristine’s personal record reviewed by Wired, according to the government’s security experts, would also raise questions about obtaining security clearances needed to access privileged government data. The same experts are further wondering about the selection process for Doge staff – and, given the history of Coristine, whether he has undergone such a background investigation.

The White House did not immediately respond to questions about what level of approval, if any, corisitin has and, if so, how it was granted.