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I largely don't care about titles, my current one is Software Engineer, I self describe as a software developer.

In the US the title of Engineer is not reserved except in a few very specific instances and the argument about whether software creation is engineering needs to first agree on what engineering is, a very open question and one that seems largely uninteresting to me.

In my own head I think of myself much more as a logician/mathematician than I do an engineer, but I bet you couldn't guess/interpret that from the output.



Wikipedia says engineering's original meaning is from latin:

  >meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare
  >meaning "tocontrive, devise"




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