Who We Are

Temporal is the culmination of over 20 years of building mission-critical platforms for developers and a decade-long partnership between co-founders Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas.

Maxim and Samar have a rich history of pioneering innovations in distributed systems. In 2004, Maxim led the development of Amazon’s messaging infrastructure, which became the foundation for Amazon SQS. Together, they launched the first public version of Amazon’s Simple Workflow Service. Later, Samar created the Azure Durable Task Framework at Microsoft, while Maxim developed groundbreaking tools like the Amazon Flow Framework. In 2015, they reunited at Uber to co-create Cadence, a transformative workflow engine that powered many of Uber’s services and applications, setting the stage  for Temporal’s founding vision.

Samar is the CEO and co-founder of Temporal. With 20 years of experience at AWS, Microsoft, and Uber, he worked on Amazon Simple Workflow Service from its inception, led the development of the Durable Task Framework at Azure, and co-created Cadence (Temporal’s predecessor) at Uber. Today, millions of Temporal workflows run daily, supporting high-reliability and scalable workloads for companies like Stripe, Datadog, and Snapchat.

Maxim is the CTO and co-founder of Temporal. During his eight and a half years at Amazon, he led the architecture and development of AWS Simple Workflow Service and the storage backend for Simple Queue Service. At Uber, he applied his expertise in large-scale distributed systems to build the Cherami messaging system and co-create the Cadence Workflow engine, both of which were open-sourced. Maxim has also held engineering roles at Google and Microsoft.