I think you made the GPs point very effectively.

So does his profile:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=m00dy

    about: someone important...

Probably "senior" in the sense that you've been at the company the longest then. I've worked with a couple of these before, it's always awful.

See, again, this is what I'm talking about with the title inflation.

This does not compute.