Michael Latman.

Where I've Worked

Hey there! I'm Michael Latman, a product-focused software engineer currently building critical security software at AWS. I've had the privilege of working on 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.

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Amazon Web Services

Apr 2022 - Present;

Jan 2020 - Apr 2021

Software Engineer II

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Led a team to develop the Java authorization library securing 100% of AWS data centers with significant cost savings

  • Built a React/TypeScript AuthZ library that handles UI permissions across security domains

  • Served as AWS Security Guardian reviewing code and threat models for multiple teams

  • Developed a shared CDK construct that reduced infrastructure deployment time from days to hours

  • Led the UI/UX Guild, guiding frontend engineers and facilitating design reviews

Work is only part of what I do

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

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SageApp.ai

SageApp.ai

A native macOS and iOS chat experience for Claude AI with powerful capabilities for image sharing, code highlighting, and markdown support.

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Olive AI

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

Senior Software Engineer - Ventures

Remote

  • Led a team of engineers to build a TypeScript hospital resource locator system that reduced call center agent response times by 21%

  • Provisioned AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while leading code reviews for multiple portfolio companies

  • Developed an engineering excellence guide on best practices for seed-stage startups in the healthcare space

  • Rapidly prototyped solutions in design sprints to validate product-market fit with potential customers

Alliance Data

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

Software Engineer

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Built a high-performance ad server in Kotlin that delivered context-aware ads with sub-100 millisecond latency

  • Designed and implemented a centralized Spring Security service for unified authentication across multiple products

  • Created a generic system for implementing Kotlin services that significantly reduced boilerplate code

  • Diagnosed and fixed critical production issues while implementing comprehensive test coverage

Blispay

Jun 2018 - Jan 2019

Software Engineer

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Built a data model using Java and PostgreSQL that helped teams analyze customer behavior

  • Maintained Python data pipelines that fed the company's analytics system

  • Found and fixed key issues in the React web app to improve customer experience

Syncrobits

Feb 2017 - Jun 2018

Founder

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Built a team to develop iOS and Android applications using Swift and Java

  • Created a point-of-sale app that processed over a million transactions for the Maryland State Fair

  • Managed client relationships, billing, and delivery for multiple projects