Where I've Worked

Hey there! I'm Michael Latman, a product-focused software engineer currently building Tasklet.ai & Shortwave. I've had the privilege of working on security software at AWS, software for early-stage startups at Olive AI, credit card products at Blispay, and ad rendering systems at Alliance Data, along with starting my own contracting business in college.

Tasklet.ai

Jun 2025 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Owned Tasklet.ai's frontend client from the ground up in React, TypeScript, and Node.js, driving UI architecture and maintaining performance across a product now used by thousands of organizations

  • Launched Instant Apps, enabling agents to generate multi-file React applications on demand that feel native to the Tasklet UI, letting users build custom workflow tools or extend the platform itself, with two-way data sync, sandboxed builds for safely running untrusted code, and a bi-directional context system enabling seamless human-agent handoff

  • Prototyped and owned the computer use feature end-to-end, building remote desktop streaming, WebSocket authentication, a picture-in-picture view, and a sidebar enabling shared agent and human control

  • Designed and built Direct API, enabling agents to self-discover API connections through a configurable UI with dynamic auth selection, placeholder mapping, and a secure token store for reusable integrations

  • Designed and built the containerized sandbox integration, giving agents the ability to run arbitrary shell commands and software packages, including authentication, agent tools, and UI file previews for agent-generated content

  • Championed AI-assisted development across the team by establishing a shared coding workspace, instituting AI code review and security scanning, and driving adoption through internal talks and continuous tool evaluation

Work is only part of what I do

Check out my personal projects and experiments I've built outside of my professional work.

Amazon Web Services

Apr 2022 - Jun 2025

Software Engineer II

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Sole owner of the authorization backend spanning seven Kotlin and Java microservices, accessed globally by thousands of security personnel and monitoring centers

  • Delivered unified full-text search with OpenSearch indexing enabling real-time queries across tens of thousands of physical security devices, then packaged the infrastructure into reusable CDK constructs for org-wide adoption

  • Spearheaded and won approval for a next-generation UI redesign, now in production

  • Led initiative to build a platform for organizing and managing physical security device settings and permissions, including embedded software in Rust

  • Established and owned API standards for the organization, consulting across five teams on authorization and UI/UX implementation, leading quality assurance initiatives, and serving as AWS Security Guardian

  • Instrumented analytics and telemetry across the product and owned full-stack production incident response

Olive AI

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

Senior Software Engineer - Ventures

Remote

  • Led engineering across five portfolio companies at a healthcare startup incubator, owning AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and code reviews

  • Contracted with an Ohio area hospital to build a hotkey-driven resource locator for call center staff, working directly with the call center supervisor to shape requirements, reducing response times by ~21%

Amazon Web Services

Jan 2020 - Apr 2021

Software Engineer II

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Led UI development for the organization, shipping full-stack features across Kotlin and Java microservices and React (React Query, Redux, Hooks)

  • Built a role emulation system enabling developers to test UI behavior across permission scopes, catching backend authorization issues before production

  • Defined UI integration requirements and led the effort to deploy RBAC across the physical security platform

  • Served as AWS Security Guardian, reviewing code and threat models across teams

Alliance Data

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

Software Engineer

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Built high-performance ad server in Kotlin delivering context-aware ads with sub-250ms latency

  • Owned centralized authentication service using Spring Security across multiple products

  • Created shared Kotlin service framework that reduced boilerplate code across teams

Blispay

Jun 2018 - Jan 2019

Software Engineer

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Built and maintained data analytics pipelines in Python and data models in Java and PostgreSQL, supporting customer behavior analysis across a regulated fintech platform

  • Fixed critical production issues in the React web app for a consumer credit product

Syncrobits

Feb 2017 - Jun 2018

Founder

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Founded and led a team building iOS and Android applications in Swift and Java

  • Built an iOS ticket scanning and point-of-sale app in Swift that processed over one million transactions across concert venues in Maryland and surrounding states

  • Managed client relationships, billing, and project delivery