![Branden Spike's profile page on X says « Branden Spikes @ x 336 posts Branden Spikes @ x @BrandenSpikes (Fallowsyou IT and cyber security leader and investor. Early hire at Zip2, @PayPal, @SpaceX, and @Astra through to IPO or orbit. Currently leading IT <br />at @X View more &3 Science & Technology © Silicon Valley, California 2 spikes.com & Joined May 2012 160 Following 593 Followers 2 Subscriptions @DD Followed by Thomas Brewster joe white, and 2 others you follow Posts Replies Highlights Media <br />a Branden Spikes @ x @BrandenSpikes - Feb 27 [oJ Wow, | got my old email address back, which used to get ~1,000 spam emails per day (back in 1999). Now it's getting almost zero. [OF] Qu Q2 thi 97 na 13 Branden Spikes reposted Io) Elon Musk @ %| @elonmusk <br />- Feb 26 [ol z](https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/089/207/992/441/038/original/0cd25a33a9bb1593.png "Branden Spike's profile page on X says « Branden Spikes @ x 336 posts Branden Spikes @ x @BrandenSpikes (Fallowsyou IT and cyber security leader and investor. Early hire at Zip2, @PayPal, @SpaceX, and @Astra through to IPO or orbit. Currently leading IT <br />at @X View more &3 Science & Technology © Silicon Valley, California 2 spikes.com & Joined May 2012 160 Following 593 Followers 2 Subscriptions @DD Followed by Thomas Brewster joe white, and 2 others you follow Posts Replies Highlights Media <br />a Branden Spikes @ x @BrandenSpikes - Feb 27 [oJ Wow, | got my old email address back, which used to get ~1,000 spam emails per day (back in 1999). Now it's getting almost zero. [OF] Qu Q2 thi 97 na 13 Branden Spikes reposted Io) Elon Musk @ %| @elonmusk <br />- Feb 26 [ol z")
I've been looking at the background of Branden Spikes, the senior member of DOGE who is director of IT over at X (his OG email is b@x.com).
Prior to joining up with Musk, Spikes ran a company called Spikes Browser, which tried to create a sandboxed browser environment. I met Branden in DC in 2013, and I actually used Spikes for a short while.
It seems that Branden used to be married to a woman named Natalia Haldeman (she went by Natalia Spikes then). Records published by ProPublica show that Ms. Haldeman is the CEO of a nonprofit called the California Russian Foundation.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/452775704https://unicourt.com/case/ca-la2-branden-spikes-vs-natalia-haldeman-855382?init_S=c_relc#docketsWhen I search in the breach tracking service Constella Intelligence for spikes.com, I find tons of Yandex profiles for people in Russia who have spikes.com email addresses (all phonenumbers@spikes.com).
Going to keep poking at this.
edit: corrected name of the foundation.
