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Andy Wong

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COVERAGE · 9 CAPTURES DEC 2018 – AUG 2026, PARTIAL BEFORE SEP 2023 (1–3 ENTRIES EACH) · LAST FULL OBSERVATION JUN 22 2026 (7 OF 7) · COUNT CHECK AUG 24 2026

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

One low finding, and a ladder that held. Nine captures Dec 2018 – Aug 2026, partial before Sep 2023; the seven-role chain from a 2014 bootcamp to Meta is consistent across every capture that returned it.

“Creative Developer, Chop Dawg Studios, Mar 2018 – Present” (Dec 2018) is gone by Sep 2023; the months are covered by the Wayfair role. A side agency line removed; low stakes.

OUR READ

Clean. This is a bootcamp-to-big-tech ladder that reads the same in every capture that has shown it: ThriveHive, Wayfair, Amazon, Google, Block, Meta, each starting where the last ends, dates unchanged since 2022. The two title edits went the honest way — Amazon’s to the company’s exact title, and “Senior Software Engineer” at Block corrected to “Software Engineer” while he was still there, which is the edit people almost never make. The one removal is a side gig that overlapped a full-time job. Take the ladder at face value; the only thing we would look at on the live profile is whether the Tufts degree is still listed, since our last capture did not return it.

1 LOWLADDER CONSISTENT 2015–26TITLE CORRECTED DOWN WHILE LIVE

REMOVED · CHOP DAWG STUDIOS, CREATIVE DEVELOPER, MAR 2018 – PRESENT (AS OF DEC 2018) — A SIDE ROLE AT AN APP AGENCY, GONE; THE PERIOD IS COVERED BY WAYFAIR

Creative Developer

Chop Dawg Studios

Mar 2018 – Present

Creative Developer

Chop Dawg Studios

Mar 2018 – Present

Creative Developer

Chop Dawg Studios

Mar 2018 – Present

First capture in this archive — no earlier version to compare.

Not on the profile. This six-entry capture returned everything from the 2014 bootcamp through the current Square role — ThriveHive, Wayfair (Jan 2018 – Jan 2020), Amazon, Google — and no Chop Dawg.

Not on the profile. Aug 24 2026 check counted 7 entries; entries not re-read.

REVISION TIMELINE · ↻ ALL EDITSALL EDITS SHOWNSHOW EDITS

◂ DEC 2018NOW ▸

10 CHECKPOINTS (YEARLY) · 4 CAPTURES · click a marker to see the profile as it read at that capture

 CHANGED UNCHANGED CAPTURE OTHER SECTIONS EDITED

WHAT WE SEE

Dec 2018: “Creative Developer, Chop Dawg Studios, Mar 2018 – Present” — the only entry this one-entry capture returned. Chop Dawg is a web and mobile app agency. No description.
Feb 2022: a three-entry capture shows “Software Engineer, Wayfair, 2018 – 2020,” which by Sep 2023 reads “Jan 2018 – Jan 2020” — so the profile places him at Wayfair for the whole of the Chop Dawg period.
Sep 2023 (six entries) and Jun 2026 (full, 7 of 7): no Chop Dawg. Nothing on the live profile names it.

WHY IT’S FLAGGED

We grade every traceless removal, and this is one — but it is the smallest kind. An agency “creative developer” line that overlapped a full-time engineering job for at most its first two years, with no description and no end date ever recorded, is a side engagement that was tidied off a profile that has since become a seven-entry big-tech ladder. It changes no dates and hides no period. Low stakes: worth a question only if the Wayfair role itself is in doubt, and nothing in the archive suggests it is.

INNOCENT READ

A freelance or part-time contract listed as “present” in 2018 and dropped once it ended and a full-time role covered the same months. That is ordinary profile hygiene.

CAN’T KNOW

When the role ended or when the entry came off — every capture between Dec 2018 and Sep 2023 returned one to three entries.

WHAT HELD · THE LADDER, 2014 – 2026, ACROSS NINE CAPTURES

Startup Institute · 2014web-development bootcamp; “Mar 2014 – Apr 2014” (2020) rendered “2014” from 2023 on; same 198-character description throughoutCONSISTENT SINCE 2020

ThriveHive · Software Engineer, Apr 2015 – Jan 2018identical in Feb 2022, Sep 2023, Jan 2025 and Jun 2026UNCHANGED 4 YRS

Wayfair · Software Engineer, Jan 2018 – Jan 2020identical in Feb 2022, Sep 2023 and Jun 2026UNCHANGED 4 YRS

Amazon · Software Development Engineer, Jan 2020 – Jan 2021“Software Engineer” (Dec 2020, while in the role) → “Software Development Engineer” (Feb 2022), Amazon’s own title for the job; dates then unchangedTITLE MADE PRECISE

Google · Software Engineer, Jan 2021 – Mar 2022identical in Sep 2023 and Jun 2026; first captured Sep 2023 (earlier captures were partial)UNCHANGED 3 YRS

Block / Square · Software Engineer, Mar 2022 – Jan 2024“Senior Software Engineer, Block” (Mar 2023) → “Software Engineer, Square” (Aug 2023) → “Software Engineer, Block, Mar 2022 – Jan 2024” (Jun 2026). The title was corrected downward while he held the roleCORRECTED DOWN

Meta · Software Engineer, Jan 2024 – presentfirst captured Jun 2026; starts the month Block ends; re-read Aug 2026CURRENT

READ THIS AS

Seven roles, one direction, no rewrites. Every entry this archive has seen more than once reads the same each time; the only title edits moved toward precision (Amazon) or downward (Block), and both were made while he was in the role. The dates of the whole 2015–2024 chain have been stable since the first capture that showed them. For a profile with 49,000 followers whose headline is the ladder itself, that is the finding.

NOTE

Education — Tufts University, BA, Clinical Psychology and English, 2009–2013 — was identical in Jul 2019, Aug 2023 and Jan 2025, and was not returned by the Jun 2026 capture. One missing observation is not a removal; we do not grade it. If it is gone from the live profile, it is the one edit here that runs against the “non-traditional background” headline rather than with it, and worth a glance.

NOT IN SCOPE

The headline’s “Advocate for underrepresented groups and non-traditional backgrounds in tech” and the 48,996 followers are outside what revision history can test.