“coder-codewriter”
If you call them engineers I’m going to engineer your femur into two pieces.
Yes, yes, Engineer is protected in a lot of spaces. Even here. That said the university programme I’ve attended was to make me into a “Sotware Engineer” not a “Developer”. This university is a university for engineers. Obviously I don’t have to requalify every year to remain an Engineer, but saying that I am not an Engineer is factually untrue.
I dont care about names but to be offended because it says Software Engineer on my resume is just dumb.
Also we design a lot of crucial systems. (Such as any RTOS, banking systems and so on and so forth)
Software Author/ Author
If you push tickets - software developer at best.
If you iteratively solve problems by learning, building models, and trying hard to break said models until a sufficiently robust one remains - welcome to engineering.
Consultant
This is the correct answer, it includes everything a full stack dev might do
At some jobs, I can get away with “Señor Developer” or “Computer Toucher”. Those are the nice ones.
Otherwise it tends to be “Senior Software Engineer” that carries the least constricting baggage.
I SWEAR big company middle managers hear “developer” and they can only ever see you as an infant who without guidance would just keep coding some absolute random shit and not think about product, market, customers, integration, or prioritize their own work.
“Software craftsman”
Code Artisan
Bitsmith
codesmith
I just say IT
Generally speaking software development is not a part of IT.
I’d say in English there is more of a difference, in my native language the term is more blurry I’d say, for a random person it just sounds as “computers”, and to most people that’s all they care about.
In English that more general word for the entire industry is “tech”. Thats the closest comparison to just using the word “computers”.
Ah true, thank you! Then it is tech what I say
Gross. IT to me is a support role, not the reason for the company’s existence.
From someone who transitioned from operations to development over the course of their admittedly short career, this is a poor mindset. Much like how you shouldn’t disrespect a janitor or a nurse, you shouldn’t say “gross” about IT work.
IT may not be the reason for the company’s existence, but it is what allows it. The company may not exist without you, but you don’t exist without IT.
It’d love to be called not burdened with a completely unrealistic software development plan.
Employed
Ummm, keyboard jockey??? Code monkey??? can we get some respect here?
Code slanger. Code wrangler. Software person.
Code whispers
Feces Fling Server Monkey, 2nd class.
And Computer Engineering is none of these.
