Not quite, Thomas's avatar in many places is that of a bear. He has named a few of his works after bears, in particular his password hashing function Makwa.
The author could have easily continued with their trend of using alternative languages and ended up with something just as unique. UrsidSSL, BhaalooSSL, XiongSSL; all could have continued the trend without coming across as a sly attack.
It's not as if wolfSSL is a new kid on the block in the world of embedded SSL.