Personal attacks like this don't belong on Hacker News. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14945322 and marked it off-topic.

Ha! Which one of your syllable-splayed psych terms defines a person who is tired of being stereotyped by academia?

I'd say neither. The parent sounds like he knows his stuff without down playing his knowledge (inferiority complex), and isn't pretentious enough to call himself a software engineer (superiority complex).

I don't think there was any need for that kind of response.