I think I get your point. As someone who doesn’t have any particular specialty (I do webdev, “embedded” devices, image processing, tooling, design, etc.), I always hesitate when someone asks me what I do. I consider the things I can do as tools to get something done.
I interned at a research facility where I had to figured out obscure serial commands for a two axis objective stage, interface microscope camera, and image analysis. Then I wrapped it all in a python library for them to use.
From my mentors perspective however, the goal was “simple”: you find a microorganism swimming under microscope, and keep following it to record its trajectory. Make sure each tick is max 10ms because those little ones move FAST. They didn’t care if I used 4 space indents or 2. They cared about getting pandas dataframe so they could do all the analysis.
I can’t explain this in a word or few, and I still don’t know what to call myself! Am I a developer? I don’t know.
I interned at a research facility where I had to figured out obscure serial commands for a two axis objective stage, interface microscope camera, and image analysis. Then I wrapped it all in a python library for them to use.
From my mentors perspective however, the goal was “simple”: you find a microorganism swimming under microscope, and keep following it to record its trajectory. Make sure each tick is max 10ms because those little ones move FAST. They didn’t care if I used 4 space indents or 2. They cared about getting pandas dataframe so they could do all the analysis.
I can’t explain this in a word or few, and I still don’t know what to call myself! Am I a developer? I don’t know.