At my company, we have Technical Service Analysts and Developers. The distinction is that a developer has power to modify the application they manage, whereas a

At my company, we have Technical Service Analysts and Developers. The distinction is that a developer has power to modify the application they manage, whereas a TSA only has the power to use the application they manage. Both can write code, though it tends to be that the developers write code and TSAs don't. For example, I have a TSA that manages our API gateway. They can't modify that application by updating it's codebase, but have the power to deploy stuff and write config scripts for it. As a developer, I manage a front end application, so I have the power to change the code for this application, but I don't have the power to deploy it and I don't really use it. So I really think being a developer or not is based around what you have power over as an individual.