software engineer

Software Engineer is a professional that uses Software Engineering and all of its engineering principals during all phases of software development. Too bad this was only achieved once in all of recorded history.

That hacker called himself a software enginer.
That coder thinks she is a software engineer.
Those programmer wishes they were software engineers.
I am the only software engineer I know that is why we don't have a union.

software engineer by joepa February 17, 2004

software engineering 

Software engineering is the application of science
to consistently produce software based systems
that are acceptable against the needed criteria
(reliability, maintainability, security, safety,
efficiency, usability) in a cost effective way.

I am a software engineer.

software engineering by Matt Sharpe February 5, 2004

software engineer

Someone who lives in China or India and works 24 hours a day for 100s of time less than any american.

Maheshkumar is quite the software engineer.

software engineer by Brother Bryan February 1, 2004

software engineering 

A self grandiose term to describe an industry which actually has no engineering foundations. Often filled with examples of Dunning Kruger, Conway's Law, Narcissism and Elitism.

Software engineers rule the world through software engineering.

software engineering by mactel March 12, 2017

Software Dandy 

A Software Dandy is someone who has all the latest games and cool software just to show-off. They have a huge number of non-pirated games and "killer apps" and they will never let anyone borrow from them.

A) "Wow! has that guy got a load of software I want, or WHAT ? I bet he's some kind of games wizard !"

b) "Jeez, he's just a Software Dandy - and he knows jack about any of them games"

Software Dandy by Regis Bognor February 7, 2006

Software Developer 

An overpaid artisan who uses unoriginal ideas and code that has already been written. Spends most of his time listening to music while spending hundreds of hours on design projects that will never reach fruition.

Bill: I am a software developer
John: O so you are just an artist who actually makes money

Software Developer by SoftwareDevOps October 30, 2022

Software Engineer

Someone with big brains and who works his freaking tail off and is going to be (or has already been) laid off, just to be replaced by some low-life and low-wage counterpart in india, so greedy corporations can increase their margins and offer a crapper service.

IBM announces it creates 1,500 new Software Engineering jobs (but they don't disclose it's in freaking india or china).

Software Engineer by MaxCool February 8, 2004