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Engineering Leader & Software Architect | Driving SaaS Scalability and Team Growth | Integrations, Messaging, Identity (IAM/MFA), Payments, Security | AWS

Highlights

Problem
  • Fragmented identity systems across acquisitions created technical debt, blocked cross-sell opportunities and introduced compliance and security risks.

Action
  • Led enterprise-level architecture due diligence: evaluated vendor solutions, defined the unified target architecture and established phased migration strategies.

  • Standardized authentication flows, synchronized identity metadata across products and embedded compliance-by-design into identity governance.

  • Worked directly with product leadership to align identity architecture with cross-sell, upsell and monetization objectives.

Impact
  • New bundling and upsell pathways opened through seamless cross-product access.

  • Mobile app launch fast-tracked by introducing modern authentication capabilities.

  • Security posture reinforced while advancing SOC 2 Type I & II readiness.

  • Future post-acquisition identity merges streamlined by codifying a reusable playbook.

Problem
  • Sales teams struggled to close enterprise deals due to limited ability to adapt to diverse customer processes and data integration needs.

Action
  • Architected and led development of TimeTac Connect, a modular, event-driven framework that became core to the enterprise product offering. Designed a set of 15+ interoperable and highly configurable components based on extract-transform-load (ETL) concept, async message queues and transparent API integrations.

  • Established and managed a new cross-functional integration team, funded by revenue generated through early integration successes. Interviewed 30+ candidates, hired and mentored 3 engineers and developed one into a promoted successor team lead.

  • Delivering 20+ enterprise-grade integrations including technologies and providers such as Active Directory, ADFS, Azure, GSuite, Okta, SAP, Zoho CRM, Zoho Subscription, via data synchronization, async events and webhooks.

  • Reusing the framework internally to automate payment processing and public API documentation generation.

Impact
  • Fueled revenue growth by selling thousands of new enterprise licenses through 20+ delivered integrations.

  • Operational overhead reduced by hundreds of hours per month via automation of payments and API documentation.

  • Integration capacity scaled sustainably with the creation of a dedicated cross-functional team.

  • Leadership pipeline strengthened by mentoring a successor who advanced to team lead.

  • Hiring pipeline optimized by formalizing candidate evaluation and onboarding practices.

Problem
  • Legacy email delivery pipelines created deliverability risks and threatened core revenue streams, requiring a large-scale migration to a new vendor without service disruption.

Action
  • Evaluated AWS SES, Mandrill, SendGrid, SparkPost and Mailgun, then architected a vendor-agnostic pipeline with dual sending and smart application-level switching for seamless cutover and rollback.

  • Implemented custom monitoring dashboards combining provider stats with internal metrics, with automated alerts routed to team channels for proactive issue detection.

  • Codified deliverability safeguards including DKIM/SPF/DMARC alignment, dedicated IP warming, unified suppression lists and custom bounce/complaint handling.

  • Integrated message queues with retry policies and dead-letter queues to ensure resilience and fault isolation during migration and steady-state operation.

Impact
  • Revenue streams safeguarded and customer trust preserved through zero-downtime delivery of millions of transactional emails.

  • Email deliverability elevated to industry-leading levels, achieving bounce rates below 0.2% and complaint rates below 0.02%.

  • Operational resilience increased with a future-proof, vendor-agnostic email pipeline.

Problem
  • As a rapidly growing startup we needed to outpace competitors with new features but lacked the engineering capacity and structure to deliver enterprise-grade capabilities at speed.

Action
  • Architected and delivered enterprise-critical features including Bulk Sending, Document Signer MFA, Device Verification and Fraud Prevention Service (FPS).

  • Evaluated SMS vendors such as Plivo, Twilio and Vonage to secure the best mix of performance, cost and required capabilities.

  • Implemented automated fraud protection mechanisms leveraging behavioral analytics and email reputation data, maintaining false positive rates under 2%.

  • Enhanced Bulk Sending with robust error handling, financial safeguards, overage charging and consumption tracking feeding directly into invoicing streams.

  • Aligned C-level, sales, marketing and support through async RFCs, PoCs, feature-specific channels and streamlined architecture reviews using minimalistic ADMs and ADRs.

Impact
  • Overall product adoption accelerated with new signups and premium upgrades fueled by secure and differentiated features.

  • Revenue expansion supported through new workflows such as Bulk Sending and automation features.

  • SaaS growth sustained over multiple years, culminating in eversign’s successful acquisition by Apryse.

Problem
  • As a fast-scaling startup, we lacked formalized engineering processes and financial visibility, increasing operational risk and slowing executive decision-making.

Action
  • Kickstarted a cross-team 'Processes & Procedures' initiative, introducing 10+ technical support playbooks across varying complexity levels.

  • Contributed to continuous improvement of deployment pipelines with linting, extended test suites, automated migrations and dry-run validation for safer releases.

  • Created and evolved a risk repository. Initially in shared docs, later formalized with filters, labels and linked tasks/epics to assess and mitigate risks systematically.

  • Partnered with the CFO through weekly syncs and knowledge-sharing sessions to define KPIs and deliver real-time BI dashboards covering MRR, churn, signup sources and growth rates.

Impact
  • Safeguarding against operational risk through formalized playbooks, structured risk repository and systematic postmortems.

  • Engineering efficiency improved via standardized pipelines, automated validations and safer release practices.

  • Faster, data-driven decisions enabled across C-level and finance through shared metrics and consistent reporting.

Problem
  • Government ministries lacked a qualified electronic signature authority, limiting the rollout of eGovernment services and reducing public trust in digital infrastructure.

Action
  • Deployed a PKI infrastructure including Root CA, Issuing CA and ministry-facing Registration Authority (RA), backed by Entrust software, SafeNet HSMs, Microsoft AD and IIS-based services.

  • Implemented certificate lifecycle processes with CRL-based revocation procedures, aligned with local legislation and European eIDAS/ETSI requirements.

  • Authored Certificate Policy (CP) and Certification Practice Statement (CPS) in collaboration with legal and compliance teams, establishing a foundation for audit and long-term governance.

  • Trained and upskilled the existing engineering team to maintain CA operations, while building institutional knowledge of PKI and auditing practices.

Impact
  • First national certificate authority launched and passed external audit on the first attempt.

  • Qualified digital certificates issued within one year to three ministries and the national tax authority, unlocking secure electronic services initiatives.

  • Adoption of qualified electronic signatures pioneered across government, increasing public trust in digital services.

About Me

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I am a Principal-track Engineer and Technology Leader with 15+ years of experience designing and scaling SaaS and enterprise systems. I specialize in building software that balances resilience, security, and cost efficiency, while aligning engineering with business growth.

My career began in digital government services where I guided engineering and support teams through modernization and security initiatives, which was my early foundation in leadership, cross-department collaboration, and public-sector digital transformation.

At TimeTac, I built and grew the integration team and framework that powered 20+ enterprise integrations enabling sales teams to sell thousands of licences to enterprise customers. I also shaped requirements engineering, and developed both pre- and post-sales expertise. This experience made me deeply product- and outcome-oriented.

I then joined apilayer, collaborating closely with founders Paul and Julian Zehetmayr. There I contributed across eversign, Invoicely, and ZeroSSL, gaining hands-on experience with full ownership, rapid iteration, and high-stakes trade-offs. My primary focus was eversign, where our team’s work culminated in a successful exit and acquisition by Apryse. At eversign, I also partnered with executives to shape BI systems and ensure data-driven decision making.

Today, as part of the core team at Xodo Sign (formerly eversign, now part of Apryse’s Xodo product suite), I focus on scaleup-to-enterprise challenges: asynchronous collaboration across time zones, multi-level technical management, and aligning cross-product dependencies and risks. I have delivered large-scale migrations, created frameworks that save hundreds of engineering hours per month, and shipped features such as Device Verification, Document Signer MFA, Fraud Protection Service, Automated Bulk Sending and Xodo One Identity Management Platform.

Academically, I hold a Bachelor in Software Engineering and a Master’s in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Banja Luka. My side research on automation in software engineering and authorization management has been published at IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication, Rethinking Authorization Management of Web-APIs and HICSS, Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering: Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities, bridging practical engineering with academic contribution.

Beyond technology, I thrive on guiding teams, shaping strategy, and enabling growth at scale. I am also a husband and father, drawing patience and perspective from family life.

Career Snapshot

Strengths & Impact

  • Backend and distributed systems built for resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency
  • Large-scale migrations (identity, email, payments) delivered with zero downtime and cross-team coordination
  • API integrations and event-driven messaging enabling connectivity across products and organizations
  • Security and compliance (MFA, payments, SOC2, GDPR) embedded into architecture and delivery
  • Technical leadership through team building, mentoring, and aligning engineering with business KPIs

Publications

Certificates

  • Professional Scrum Developer I, Scrum.org (2024), Credential ID: 1117957
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2023), Credential ID: E6WSGZ4B5MQE1F92
  • ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management, PeopleCert (2016), Credential ID: GR750242494ML

Timeline

  • Xodo Sign by Apryse

    Xodo Sign by Apryse

    Senior Software Engineer and Enterprise Architect

    2022 – Present
    Austria / Worldwide — Remote-only
  • eversign GmbH

    eversign GmbH

    Senior Software Engineer and Enterprise Architect

    2020 – 2022
    Austria — Remote-first
  • TimeTac

    TimeTac

    Lead Integration Engineer

    2017 – 2020
    Austria — On-site, remote-enabled
  • Agency for Information Society

    Agency for Information Society

    Head of Department for Engineering and Technical Support

    2012 – 2017
    Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) — On-site
  • Agency for Information Society

    Agency for Information Society

    Software Engineer

    2009 – 2011
    Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) — On-site

Let us connect

I enjoy working with people who are building products, solving hard technical problems, and shaping the future of SaaS. If you would like to collaborate, exchange ideas, or explore speaking and publishing opportunities, feel free to reach out.

What Others Say

Paul Zehetmayr
Paul Zehetmayr
Co-Founder & CEO of everign GmbH at time, also Co-Founder & CEO at LimeWire, ZeroSSL, invoicely, APILayer, Advisory Board at eversign, APILayer

"Milan has been in charge of not only actively developing solutions and designing core features and functionalities directly in the eversign platform, but also of scouting for, coordinating and executing projects related to external services and platforms to be connected and integrated with eversign. Given the nature of our business, external integrations form a core element of eversign’s product offering and constitute a major element of eversign’s convenience and effectiveness as a service.

I have personally had the pleasure of working with Milan directly on countless occasions and was regularly impressed by his breadth of knowledge, attention to detail and sheer skill in the work he does, all the while producing a relaxed and constructive atmosphere around him. It also did not escape me that co-workers frequently appreciated Milan’s team spirit and willingness to share his experience and pass on his learnings to others."

Alex Khalevine
Alex Khalevine
Team Lead at Xodo Sign by Apryse 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.”

Dragan Vucic
Dragan Vucic
Executive Directior / Management Board Member / COO at Komercijalna Banka at time, also CEO at Cyclos Systems

“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.”

Adrian Gligor
Adrian Gligor
CTO of eversign GmbH at time, also Head of Technology at LimeWire, Cloud Architecture Consultant

"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!"

Branko Dumanovski
Branko Dumanovski
Head of Department - Civil Service Agency of Republic of Srpska 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.”

Mikica Mitrović
Mikica Mitrović
Senior Infrastructure Architect at Nova Banka AD at time, also Network Development Engineer at Amazon, Network System Engineer at Dell Technologies

“First and most importantly, Milan is one great professional and reliable colleague. He has exceptional both technical and soft skills, which makes him a good choice as a reliable team member for any information technology related project(s). Finally, his constant interest in the deep understanding of business processes and procedures, combined with good technical background makes him a well rounded professional.”

Gerald Senarclens de Grancy
Gerald Senarclens de Grancy
Head of Software Development at TimeTac GmbH at time, also Lead Product Analyst at Reval, Professor at HTL BLUME Graz

“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.”