Adam Altman
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAdam Altman is a product-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building user-centric solutions from Austin, Texas. He blends backend engineering chops with a product mindset, notably contributing to the popular Redocly CLI to improve OpenAPI linting, validation, and developer-facing messaging. Known for polishing developer experience details—typo fixes, clearer help text, and standardizing terminology—he brings pragmatic attention to consistency that reduces friction for API consumers. Adam thrives at the intersection of tooling and usability, turning subtle improvements into measurable gains for teams and users.
12 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
linter10
openapi10
apidoc9
api9
javascript8
nodejs7
redocly6
api-governance6
redoc6
swagger-editor6
swagger6
documentation6
yaml6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Redocly/redocly-cli
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
⚒️ Redocly CLI makes OpenAPI easy. Lint/validate to any standard, generate beautiful docs, and more.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:565 reviews, 32 commits, 85 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Redocly CLI, focusing on linting and validation of OpenAPI definitions. Their work involved fixing typos in error messages, renaming elements within the code, and improving the consistency of help messages. The user also contributed to standardization efforts by renaming terms related to Redocly and API keys, and fixed type mismatch messages.
clilinterlintredoccli-toolbox
Rebilly/RebillyReportsAPI
Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
Warning: The Rebilly Reports API is experimental and likely to change. It is published to get feedback from the community. These APIs have been tested successfully but don't have enough feedback yet from the community.
Contributions:22 PRs, 329 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 6 months
apireportsfeedbackrebillyreports-api
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