Samar Abbas
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CEO and Co-Founder
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About
Samar is CEO and cofounder of Temporal. He is a 20-year veteran of AWS, Microsoft and Uber engineering leadership, having worked on Amazon Simple Workflow Service from inception and led development of the Durable Task Framework at Azure, and then co-creating Cadence (Temporal’s predecessor) at Uber. Today, millions of Temporal workflows are run daily for high reliability and high scalability workloads from Stripe to Datadog to Snapchat.
Contributions
Why Temporal is the front-of-shirt sponsor for Crystal Palace
Announcements
From MS-DOS to the agentic OS: a conversation with Temporal CEO Samar Abbas
Temporal Voices
A year of change, a foundation for what's next
Community
AWS re:Invent 2025: Why the future of the cloud is durable
Community
Temporal and the next frontier: Scaling AI reliably
Announcements
A letter from Samar—one year as CEO
Announcements
Keynote: Product Announcements at Replay 2023
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Do... or do not: Why Yoda doesn't use microservices
How-To
A journey: Durable Task Framework, Uber, & open source magic
Announcements
V1 release premortem
Product News