Who we are
We are a team of nearly 200 technologists and open source company builders with a passion for programming languages, distributed systems and cloud services who've cracked the code to revolutionize backend software engineering.
Where we come from
Temporal is the result of more than 15 years of iteration building mission critical platforms for developers, and a decade long partnership between the founders Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas.
2004
Maxim was the Tech Lead for the messaging infrastructure that later became the basis Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), the first platform service offered by Amazon Web Services.
2009
Maxim serves as tech lead, working with Samar Abbas to create the first public version of Simple Workflow Service Maxim goes on to create Amazon Flow Framework, the first completely code-based approach to durable task execution.
2014
Samar joins Microsoft and serves as tech lead Azure Service Bus. Later on, Samar creates the Azure Durable Task Framework
2015
Max and Samar reunite as colleagues at Uber and co-create Cadence, rethinking the SWF programming model and architecture for scaling. Dozens of Uber services and applications adopt Cadence at scale.
2019
Max and Samar co-found Temporal Technologies Inc and the Temporal open-source project. The successor project to Cadence, Temporal was built to serve the general developer community.
2020
Temporal raises $18.75M Series A.
2022
More than 300 engineers attended Replay in Seattle, the inaugural conference for backend software development sponsored by Temporal. Now serving more than 100 corporate customers, Temporal Cloud announces expanded access.
Who's in our corner
Temporal's investors have several decades of combined experience partnering with category-defining platform companies.
More about Temporal
First hand accounts on what drove our leadership team to Temporal.
2/16/2022
An Open Letter to the Temporal User Community
Maxim Fateev
CTO and Co-Founder
Our Community
Temporal is powered by the industry's most passionate developer community. Their enthusiasm is infectious and makes us work hard to deliver a better and better experience.
Rob Zeinert
Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
Snap Engineering
Anthony Dmitriyev
Software Engineer, Coinbase
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Temporal.io is fucking fantastic. Something that probably would have taken weeks of convoluted logic was able to, pretty elegantly be encapsulated in a few workflows (~500 lines).
Jake Cooper
Founder, Coinbase
Ben Jacobson
Staff Software Engineer, Checkr
Nicolas Gere
Software Engineer, Descript
Steven Cipolla
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Box
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