Milan Latinović
Software Engineer and Enterprise Architect
Hey, I'm Milan. 👋
I am a software engineer with technical leadership experience. I contributed to teams and projects such as Codeable, TimeTac, apilayer, eversign, Invoicely, ZeroSSL, and Apryse. I held different positions, including Head of IT Engineering, Lead Integration Engineer, and Enterprise Architect.
In short, I love building reliable software systems and teams while considering business, social, and technical aspects.
What I Do
Software Engineering
Tech stacks come and go; they change from project to project. What I see as a constant is my love for solving complex problems and understanding how technical and social systems work. As simple as that. I enjoy creating or improving existing features and processes while building strong, united, compassionate teams. I value well-informed and, ideally, data-driven decisions.
Throughout 15+ years in software development, I had an opportunity to support digital transformations; design PKI and CA systems; design, develop, release, and maintain many different products; scale features of a growing SaaS; automate and implement complex API-driven integrations. All this while working with marvelous and brilliant individuals from all over the world.
Technical Leadership
I have experience leading software development teams of up to 10 people with a proven track record. Successful feature delivery resulted in company growth and new hires. With team growth came a necessity for mentoring and coaching, which I enjoyed.
Mediated technical requirements between teams or companies. For example, helping sales, marketing, and tech teams define architecture requirements for the new feature; design and developing KPIs with CFO. More complex topics were large-scale integrations between different products to cross-sell. Again, recognizing and classifying various solutions by complexity was crucial here.
Contributed to Teams
Research and Publications
Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Experiences, Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities - Proceedings of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021 · Jan 8, 2021
Rethinking Authorization Management of Web-APIs - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) · Jun 29, 2020
Testimonials
Milan is a one-man department all by himself. We worked together for 3 years at eversign, delivering several different projects of varying complexity. What stood out most to me was Milan's ability to take an idea and loose requirements, and deliver a polished, production-ready feature. He wrote specifications by identifying relevant stake holders and audiences, communicating with them and balancing technical and social aspects. He architected, implemented and tested features, either alone or in a team. He defined rollout plans, delivered the feature to customers, and kept monitoring relevant KPIs and delivering fixes until the feature fulfilled success metrics. He didn't tolerate bugs, or slow or wasteful code. He also made sure never to neglect our Slack workspace's meme channel 😉. It's hard to imagine Milan not being a top asset to any team. He has my warmest recommendation!
Adrian Gligor
Head of Technology at LimeWire (at time)
Mr. Milan Latinović has been employed by TimeTac GmbH in Graz, Austria as Lead Integrations Engineer from December 4th, 2017 until August 18th, 2020. TimeTac is providing web-based and mobile software solutions for time tracking and attendance management. The products of TimeTac are among the leading cloud applications in the categories of time tracking and absence planning solutions in the German speaking markets. Milan was part of our customer integrations team. His main field of work was to design and develop TimeTac Connect, our in-house integration framework that centralizes and optimizes integrations between TimeTac and our customers. Apart from this, Milan also automated the generation of TimeTac’s OpenAPI files, providing better, more reliable documentation to our customers while reducing the associated overhead. With regard to Milan’s personality, it is worth to mention that he eagerly shared knowledge and successfully provided mentorship of new team members. He has been of great help in improving business processes for integration requirements gathering and provided excellent documentation for all of his work. Milan demonstrated a goal-oriented mindset, and reliably delivered highest standards in his technical contributions and communication with all stakeholders. Milan is absolutely reliable and hard working. I can recommend him without reservation.
Gerald Senarclens de Grancy
CTO at TimeTac (at time)
I had the privilege of working together with Milan for several years on some of the most used features of eversign platform. He has a unique combination of business- and software engineering skills. Milan is one of the few persons around who is capable of truly understanding and describing a complex system. This paired with an ability for very precise communication, and a friendly and respectful dealing with people makes him a colleague I could recommend to all.
Alex Khalevine
Senior Frontend Developer at eversign (at time)
Milan is a great professional and really pleasant to work with. He has massive knowledge in the IT sector and, from my direct experience, namely about ecommerce platforms, WordPress, SEO, security certificates... But Milan's contribution is not limited to this. He's the ideal consultant in the deeper level. He's constantly up-to-date with IT and digital marketing trends and will only advise you what is really good for you, in a very honest and genuine way. Milan has in fact become a colleague to us, even though formally he's an "external WordPress consultant". He really cares about the project, is very proactive in suggesting the best solution and puts a lot of enthusiastic effort on it. You will be impressed by the passion and knowledge he has and how naturally he will transmit these to you. Thanks to his baby-talk explanations, I now gained quite a good knowledge on more hidden aspects of WordPress. Milan's communication skills are also exceptional, always sending us statuses updates and completing all tasks almost always in advance. He's absolutely trustworthy, detailed and precise. Great person and consultant with hands-on mentality!
Gloria Serafini
Omnichannel Project Manager - Online Flagship Stores at YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP (at time)
Milan is a technically marvelous IT expert, out-of-box problem solver and open-minded professional. His extensive knowledge and experience, combined with a cross-perspective approach, recommend him for a spectrum of positions, consultancy ones, or those related to development of advanced solution in process organization, knowledge management and enterprise architecture, etc. For some time he has developed a state of the art, extremely relevant blog presenting hot topics from different areas on a high quality level. Finally, he is a friendly and supportive colleague and reliable team member who struggles for continuous improvement of the performance and relations within team and organization.
Dragan Vučić
CEO at Cyclos Systems (at time)
Milan is an extremely talented individual with a positive attitude, can-do approach, and a great breadth of technical knowledge. Milan's ability to solve complex problems in highly dynamic business environments make him an asset to any team, and a must have in "crunch-time". It was a pleasure working with Milan, and I look forward to future opportunities to work together.