To be fair, when you become a doctor it is because your peers grant you the title, not merely due to your GPA. Outside the US, engineering is the same. Within

To be fair, when you become a doctor it is because your peers grant you the title, not merely due to your GPA. Outside the US, engineering is the same. Within the US, there is no formal board for software engineerig but we can at least informally say one is an engineer if other engineers would recognize them as such. I know people whom graduated bootcamps and could qualify as engineers, albiet inexperienced ones, and those who have finished 4 years of schooling but cannot practice engineering. The guy in the article was inducted into the Academy of Science and Engineering at 34. Whether that makes him pretigious or not isn't the question, but there is no doubt in my mind that he is an engineer.