Candy didn’t reply to requests for remark concerning his work. In response to a request to make clear Candy’s function at HUD, a spokesperson for the company stated they don’t touch upon particular person personnel. The College of Chicago confirmed to WIRED that Candy is “on depart from the undergraduate faculty.”

It’s unclear how Candy was recruited to DOGE, however a public GitHub account signifies that he was engaged on this situation even earlier than he joined Musk’s demolition crew.

The “CLSweet” GitHub account, which WIRED has linked to Candy, created an utility that tracks and analyzes federal authorities laws “exhibiting how regulatory burden is distributed throughout authorities businesses.” The appliance was final up to date in March 2025, weeks earlier than Candy joined HUD.

One HUD supply who heard about Candy’s doable function in revising the company’s laws stated the hassle was redundant, for the reason that company was already “put via a multi-year multi-stakeholder meatgrinder earlier than any rule was ever created” beneath the Administrative Process Act. (This legislation dictates how businesses are allowed to determine laws and permits for judicial oversight over all the things an company does.)

One other HUD supply stated Candy’s title appeared to make little sense. “A programmer and a quantitative information analyst are two very various things,” they famous.

Candy has just about no on-line footprint. One of many solely references to him on-line is a short biography on the web site of East Edge Securities, an funding agency Candy based in 2023 with two different college students from the College of Chicago.

The biography is brief on particulars however claims that Candy has labored previously with a number of non-public fairness corporations, together with Pertento Companions, which is predicated in London, and Tenzing World Traders, primarily based in San Francisco. He’s additionally listed as a board member of Paragon World Investments, which is a student-run hedge fund.