legacy engineer

An engineer that uses very old, cumbersome technology as they stopped to innovate. Often comes with age and losing touch with users. The result is a painful development experience that is unattractive to new engineers, slow moving project, nasty incidents and vulnerabilities…

“I wouldn’t want to work there, the CTO is a legacy engineer.”

by Mycodesmellsbad October 19, 2023

Matrix Engineer

Software Engineer working in overpriced, overhyped industry meanwhile working on cryptocurrencies and NFT due to recent rapid growth in technology in last 50 years and lack of confiscation/buy out companies with setting up unions in companies like Meta and lack of law system, also in many cases people with serious maniacal view on power of technology due to mesmerizing experience from computer games, in most extreme cases pimping from an early age.

- Do you know that guy Salt Almond ?
- Yes he is one of those Matrix Engineers.
- Those guys just want to put us into a mental cage for profit.
- They should start a church.

by FckYouTaylor November 21, 2023

Orangeburg Engineer

A stupid person, usually a redneck, who tries (and fails) to rig things together with duct tape and bungee cords. Named after the city of Orangeburg, SC.

Person 1: The mattress that guy tied to the top of his lifted truck is falling off.
Person 2: Another Orangeburg Engineer.

by 4pm In Cancun November 30, 2023

bullyboi engineer

the opposite of a nice guy.

An atypical software engineer, who identifies with the leetcode grind, has a weird nickname on github, is obsessed with bullying Belarusian girls and does things outside of being a techies (crashing into lorries) 😇🥺🤝🙄

boy: ya I drink cReAtInE (I hate leg day) and play football (yoooo Messi & Ronaldo are my broooosss). I don't wanna talk about my tech job.
girl: you're a bullyboi engineer (just stupido)

by zabaleraa December 12, 2023

Aerospace Engineering

Wanting to kill yourself

Oh that's bill, he does aerospace engineering. He's never felt the touch of a woman.

by Nigger-Man_The_Cat April 27, 2024

back engineer

An *ultra boss-level nerd that can unlicense, break, and optionally repurpose software (and/or hardware) that other nerds made.
The nerdness level of the product creators shall not matter to the back engineer; it is considered pwnable by the back engineer, whether the soft/hardware in question was shipped by basic low-tier/mediocre nerds, or by their superior mega-nerds and the like - the back engineer will unpack and dissect it with as least effort as required, because efficiency.

The back engineer may enjoy the following (not necessarily in that order): writing better code than u and ur dad combined, shitty memes, repurposing products, occasionally making stuff crash, caffeine, and/or gaining unfair advantage while learning new curse words from other players online.

Since we know back engineers are better programmers than most qualified nerds, they are known to ship highly stable and robust shit that will may very likely wreck other nerds' life's, turning them very dark and miserable, if those happen to attempt to back engineer the already-back-engineered shit themselves.

* ultra-boss = the very final ranking a nerd could possibly achieve in a single lifespan

- We can't go sleep now, we got some back engineering work to do.
- So what if you don't publish the source? They will just back engineer it.
- f*ck this shit imma back engineer that ass

by inengineerswetrust May 8, 2024

Eerospace Engineer

An aerospace engineer named Eero. He also uses large vocabulary purposely to stump people.

Did you hear about the amazing work that eerospace engineer did?

by tocatwiththeuniverse May 15, 2024