Comment by JohnFen

I've been in this industry for a very long time. When I started, I called myself a "programmer". But then it became fashionable for everyone to all themselves "engineers", so I did the same. It's only a difference in marketing, but marketing can make a big difference.

These days, I just call myself a "developer". I think it's nicely neutral and gets me out of those awful "what is an engineer, anyway?" discussions.