July 2026 marks three years of being onboard the Temporal rocket ship. Many have wondered about my decision to leave HashiCorp, a company I was part of for five years that I believe is one of the best in infrastructure, to work here at Temporal.The answer has always been the same: I'm a builder at my core, and I gravitate toward hard problems that are genuinely rewarding to solve.
It’s also due to my unwavering belief in Temporal. There is so much software to be built in our industry and immense passion from our developers. When learning about Temporal before joining, I realized that Max and Samar had a laser-sharp vision for this development, impressive customers even at an early stage in the business, and a team of some of the best distributed systems talent around.
I knew I was continuing my mission by joining this team of builders.
I’m amazed by how much our team has grown in my time here. Closing our Series D changed what we’re capable of, but it didn’t change who we are. We’re the same team, now with more resources behind us. The emergence of AI has enabled us to build faster and be more agile than ever before. We are changing to embrace how AI strengthens the software development life cycle by bringing together Engineering, Product and Design under one charter: build, operate, and secure everything we ship and I’ll be leading it!
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be taking on a new position as EVP of the Build, Operate, and Secure Organization at Temporal. In another world, this title would have been EVP, R&D, but here, we’re bred to be different. My title reflects the work we do. “Research & Development” only describes half the job — building things — but it doesn’t describe the other half, which is running what you build so reliably that your customers truly depend on it. This is already the work our Engineering, Product, and Design teams do daily. I’m eager for the chance to lead our team toward the growth I already know we’re capable of.
As this newly formed team, there are a few core outcomes we are driving toward:
- Reducing the distance between an idea and a shipped feature. One team now owns the full arc, deciding what we should build, how it should look and feel, and how it gets engineered and shipped.
- Faster iteration on the things you’ve been asking for, a more consistent product experience as we grow, and the same reliability you’ve always counted on.
- Getting great ideas over the finish line in their purest form. This looks like fewer handoffs and less opportunity for amazing ideas to get diluted in the development process through a tight-knit, efficient team.
I’m energized by what’s ahead, particularly with regard to AI. More of our customers are building AI agents and systems that need to run reliably across many steps, over long stretches of time, with a lot that can go wrong along the way. This is the problem Temporal was built for, and it’s where I want us spending our energy.
The goal is to never lose the reason why I joined in the first place: to be part of a passionate team ready to solve the difficult problems.
I’m grateful for the trust this team has placed in me to lead this next chapter, and even more glad to be doing it with them.
— Preeti