Code Yeti
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A joking term for an elusive technical expert who is rumored to exist, occasionally sighted, and not easily found when needed. In engineering slang, the code yeti often appears around especially obscure infrastructure or legacy systems.
In plain English: An elusive hard-to-find expert on some obscure technical area.
Example: "Everyone said there was a code yeti who understood the old scheduler, but during the outage nobody could say where he had gone or how to reach him."