They just need "a" instead of "the", or "lead" if she's responsible as leader of a team.
For me, I am slightly primed by the "Apollo code" story: the claim was (paraphrasing) "this programmer created all the code for the Apollo programme" with an image of a person standing with folders of printouts stacked up to their shoulder. Well that person was the lead of teams of coders and didn't personally do it all. The implication, explicit in some cases, was "women's contribution is always hidden, this person did it all and got no recognition because vile men refused to share the spotlight". (Hamilton's contribution as a lead programmer was vital to the Apollo programme, but it doesn't appear to have anything to do with her being a woman).
Now, this story appears to be doing exactly what was claimed there, people's contributions being ignored.
Normally a headline would be "Bouman leads team to image blackhole", but the use of a clearly gendered forename suggests the headline writer is trying to pick out the sex of the subject. "The" suggests singularity (pun attempted!) of contribution. So, it's natural to ask why, and if you've been subject to the social media "women do it all and men get all the credit" one is bound to question the contributions.
Then looking at GitHub and seeing 2k loc vs 850k loc -- paired with the programming vs computer science confusion -- it appears like another exaggeration to forward a feminist agenda rather than an attempt to report science.