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Discussion on: What do you call yourself to people outside of tech?

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Eka

I initially said "web developer" but most non-tech people around me don't know what a "developer" does (or will assume I'm in charge of property construction!). My friends refer to me as a "programmer" and I went with that.

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Steven Torrence

I agree. I've used web developer in the past and most people think I work on building websites like Wix or Squarespace instead of seeing the parts of my day dealing with API integration or troubleshooting a deploy to an AWS instance. lol

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JoelBonetR 🥇

I just wanted to post the same reading @ekafyi 's comment hahaha

Then you can use the entire name Web Application Developer, which sounds larger and more difficult (of course, there's a word more) and usually people link this information to Facebook or Google Drive, apple cloud... so it's, at least, much better than they think you build a wordpress, squarespace, wix etc.