Michael Latman.

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.

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Tasklet.ai (Shortwave)

Jun 2025 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

  • Early engineer on AI agent platform, shipping end-to-end across React/TypeScript and Node.js including chat, file attachments, and web client redesign

  • Own computer use feature, building remote desktop streaming, protocol handling, WebSocket authentication, and interactive UI

  • Designed Direct API enabling agents to dynamically connect to any REST API with runtime endpoint discovery and authentication

  • Built cloud sandbox integration with authentication, per-agent configuration, and tooling including file previews and structured editing

  • Drove 10x faster linting and formatting while establishing AI coding agent workflows across the engineering team

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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You Are The PM

You Are The PM

An AI agent that monitors a Hacker News thread, interprets comments as feature requests, writes code, and deploys automatically.

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Amazon Web Services

Apr 2022 - Jun 2025;

Jan 2020 - Apr 2021

Software Engineer II

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Owned authorization system deployed across five microservices and accessed globally by security personnel and monitoring centers

  • Owned API standards and UI/UX reviews across the organization

  • Built shared infrastructure as code (CDK) and developer tooling that reduced deployment time from days to hours

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

Olive AI

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

Senior Software Engineer - Ventures

Remote

  • Led engineering for portfolio companies, owning AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and code reviews

  • Built a TypeScript hospital resource locator that reduced call center response times by 21%

  • Authored engineering excellence guide for seed-stage healthcare startups

  • Prototyped solutions in design sprints to validate product-market fit

Alliance Data

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

Software Engineer

Baltimore, Maryland

  • Built high-performance ad server in Kotlin delivering context-aware ads with sub-100ms 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 data models in Java and PostgreSQL for customer behavior analytics

  • Maintained Python data pipelines feeding the company's analytics system

  • Fixed critical issues in the React web app to improve customer experience

Syncrobits

Feb 2017 - Jun 2018

Founder

Baltimore, Maryland

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

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

  • Managed client relationships, billing, and project delivery