# Erik Altman > Senior Staff Software Engineer at Rocket Lawyer Location: Martinez, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/erikaltman Erik is a full-stack web and mobile application developer. He is an API and UX/UI designer and developer. He loves to design and implement mobile first applications and has many years of experience creating and supporting native mobile applications, microservices (REST API's), javascript applications, NoSQL databases, as well as providing many related skills in the areas of UX/UI and graphic design. Erik is a skilled designer, developer and manager of software development projects. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Rocket Lawyer Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States * Enabled Contract Reminders, Business Compliance and AI Document Generation product developments by leading the Customer Data Team to implement a C360 Knowledge Graph. Spring WebFlux, Spring AI, FastAPI, Pydantic AI, Vertex AI, Gemini, Postgres + pgvector, Segment.com * Launched Contract Reminders product. Iterable * Provided ApigeeX shared flows for user authentication, relieving new services from repeating user authentication implementations in service code. ApigeeX, PyTest * Proposed, designed and planned Social Login and MFA solutions, migrating customer authentication from multiple in-house systems to Google Identity platform. GCP, GKE, Identity Platform, Firebase ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rocket Lawyer Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States * Built a high-performing frontend technology team. Proposed, planned and executed frontend unification effort. Upgraded frontend technology platform to modern tools and reliable, efficient CICD software delivery processes. Node.js, Next.js, Tailwind, Turbo, Fastly CDN, GKE, Recruitment, Servant Leadership. * Supported Acquisition Experience and Membership Experience teams UX experiments and modernization projects. Supported the Core Products teams to integrate new API Products and embeddable UX components into the customer experience. Bloomreach, Next.js, Spring Boot, SumoLogic, Snowflake * Lead headless CMS SaaS product adoption, planned and supported migration from self-hosted, headed marketing site headless CMS. Sanity.io, Next.js * Lead systems integrations for PCI compliant, online, offline and over-the-phone customer payment method management solutions. PCI Pal, DialPad, Spreedly, Stripe * Optimized API Product performance with 90-50% latency reduction. Strangled legacy API authentication backends by migrating application details to ApigeeX and providing a backwards compatible API Gateway shared flow. Proposed, planned and supported DevOps team to complete project. ApigeeX, GKE, jmeter ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rocket Lawyer Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States * Lead Internal Tools team to re-platform Rocket Lawyer's Salesforce integrations. Designed and implemented event streaming integration with Salesforce, with secure APIs and embeddable applications for fulfillment and customer support workflows. Spring WebFlux, GKE & GCP Pub/Sub, Salesforce Pub/Sub & gRPC, Apigee Edge, Next.js * Support platform incidents and bug backlog. GCP, Spring MVC, Postgres, RabbitMQ, SumoLogic. * Support enterprise API customers and platform components. Support 0-downtime Apigee Edge to ApigeeX migration. Design enterprise management portals and APIs. Spring WebFlux, GKE, Apigee, SumoLogic ### Software Engineer @ Rocket Lawyer Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States * Developed centralized configuration services enabling API platform customers to customize API features and embeddable application experiences. Spring WebFlux, Postgres, GKE/GCP Storage, Apigee Edge, Fastly CDN. * Extended International Site with OIDC/Oauth 2.0 SSO integrations for enterprise partner users to access co-branded Rocket Lawyer dashboard experiences. Angular, Spring WebFlux, Spring Security, Postgres. * Extended US site with magic link APIs and onboarding experience for enterprise user account claim flows. Angular, Spring, Apigee Edge. * Extended mobile app and legal pro dashboard to launch Rocket Evidence feature. Cordova, Angular, Spring, Postgres, Filestack. * Documented new and existing platform components. High and Low-level Technical Designs, System Architecture Diagrams, PlantUML Sequence Diagrams, Open API Specifications. ### User Experience Designer @ AppCatalyst - Your Healthcare, Connected Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 Design user experiences for mobile applications and content management systems. Work with groups of internal and external stakeholders to discover, establish and satisfy product requirements. Design and conduct user tests to validate designs. Sketch App, Balsamiq, Material Design ### Cofounder @ AppCatalyst - Your Healthcare, Connected Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 Form company to provide technology services to Self Care Decisions and develop other web and mobile application products for the healthcare market. ### Full Stack Engineer @ AppCatalyst - Your Healthcare, Connected Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 Design, develop, deliver, document and support REST API and CMS services for microservice infrastructure. Develop and maintain javascript libraries, boilerplate and reference implementations to streamline the development of additional services. ### Lead iOS Developer @ AppCatalyst - Your Healthcare, Connected Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 Develop iOS mobile application framework to streamline mobile application development and support services. Develop ClinDOC Pro and Surgery Connect iOS applications. Document, maintain and extend framework. Train junior developers to leverage framework to develop and support other applications. ### Full Stack Engineer @ Self Care Decisions Jan 2012 – Jan 2020 Design, develop and support Symptom Checker API Developer Portal and embeddable symptom checker web application. ### Technical Support Lead @ Self Care Decisions Jan 2012 – Jan 2020 Provide sales support services, demonstrating Symptom Checker API to prospective customers. Onboard Symptom Checker API customers and provide ongoing technical support services. Develop and maintain API documentation and supplemental resources. ### iOS Development Contractor @ Self Care Decisions Jan 2009 – Jan 2016 Design, develop and support white-labelled Symptom Checker mobile applications sold by Self Care Decisions as an application as a service to healthcare systems and insurance providers. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Philosophy Arizona State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/erik-altman-91b36660 --- Source: https://flows.cv/erikaltman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/erikaltman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01