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

  • Own Tasklet’s client engineering across web and desktop, setting technical direction and leading architecture, product delivery, and quality.

  • Led Tasklet’s web client from early prototype through launch and a major redesign, establishing its React and TypeScript architecture and core user experience.

  • Built and launched Instant Apps, letting users create custom applications through conversation and connect them to their existing business tools.

  • Built and shipped Tasklet for Mac, bringing agents and Instant Apps into users’ desktop workflows.

  • Developed interactive computer-use features that let users observe, guide, and take over tasks performed by agents.

  • Established shared AI-assisted development tools and automated code review workflows across the engineering and product teams.

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