I think its overly charitable to call someone computer scientist because they write code. Feels very silly and fake, something done to boost up the credentials. sorry.
Elected First female Chancellor of Germany vs wrote a book about microservices.
Yes hurting for credentials in this context. Most people have no idea who she is, her only claim to fame is writing that blogpost.
You're the only one doing this. The article omits any justification for the terms, sure. And it could be a baseless claim. But I don't really see any reason to assume that's the case.