software engineer

C1684
concept

A software engineer is a professional who designs, develops, tests, and maintains software systems by applying principles of computer science and engineering to solve real-world problems.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
software engineer canonical 345
Internet engineer 7
software architect 4

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: software engineer
Generated description
A software engineer is a professional who designs, develops, tests, and maintains software systems by applying principles of computer science and engineering to solve real-world problems.

Instances (355)

Instance Via concept surface
Ted Lemon
Michael Antonov
Herb Sutter
Peter Weinberger
Vlissides
surface form: John Vlissides
John
surface form: John Vlissides
Dan Bricklin
Bob Frankston
Valentin Kipiatkov
Stephen C. Johnson
Bertrand Meyer
Jeffrey Dean
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Krishna Yeshwant
Peter Pistorius
Rob Cameron
David Price
surface form: David Price (software engineer)
Joachim Ante
William Premerlani
Lennart Poettering
Madhukar Korupolu
David Oppenheimer
Eric Tune
Nathan Marz
Google engineers
Joel Spolsky
Kay Sievers
Abhishek Verma
Dennis Austin
Andrew Fikes
Michael Blaha
Hipp
surface form: D. Richard Hipp
Dave Cutler (software engineer)
surface form: Dave Cutler
Derek Collison
Pieter Wuille
Mike Burrows
Bill Joy
Murdock
surface form: Ian Murdock
Theodore Ts'o
Howard Gobioff
James Gosling
Carl Sassenrath
ESP
surface form: Michael R. Sweet
Alexander Larsson
Julian Schrittwieser
Crockford
surface form: Douglas Crockford
State Software
surface form: Douglas Crockford
Max Nanasy
Igor Sysoev
Stephen Tweedie