We're launching the Temporal Constellation Program, a new initiative — to recognize and support engineers who've shaped our ecosystem through code, talks, articles, and community support. The Constellation Program is our way of saying: we see you, and we're fans of what you're building.
Our first cohort#
The engineers in our inaugural cohort bring diverse perspectives from industries including retail, entertainment, social media, and gaming. They work in different languages, solve different problems, and contribute in different ways. What they share is a track record of creating resources that help others succeed with Temporal.
For show & tell, here's some of what they've built! Read on to level up your understanding of all the things Temporal can do…
Production architecture at scale#
Rob Zienert has been sharing how he uses Temporal for years, both the wins and the actual architecture decisions and trade-offs. He leads the Temporal team at Netflix, having introduced the tool during his time as a tech lead for the CI/CD platform Spinnaker. Check out his Replay talk on Nexus and Durable Execution across team boundaries at scale, and the accompanying blog post going in depth on automating Temporal.
Naveen Achyuta is a senior software engineer specializing in building powerful software systems for the networking industry. His work bridges the gap between software development and networking, creating systems that enable teams to efficiently manage and monitor complex network environments. He recently spoke at AutoCon about transforming network automation with Temporal.
Jack Burns builds and scales distributed systems that make AI and data platforms work better together. He’s been working with workflow orchestration since the Cadence days (!!), writing a C# SDK and contributing to the Go one too. These days, he leads Temporal and data streaming platforms at Nordstrom and helps teams design resilient architectures. He spoke at Replay 2024 on orchestrating a Kafka migration with Temporal, a real-life example of orchestrating the migration of a platform that supports 220+ engineering teams and thousands of applications.
Open source tools and SDKs#
Greg Haskins is CTO at Manetu, where he uses Temporal primarily as a high-performance SAGA orchestrator for their Kubernetes-based knowledge protection platform. He maintains the community-led Temporal Clojure SDK, in addition to other Temporal Code Exchange projects like the CustomDataStore for Yugabyte YCQL.
J.D. Nicholls is a full-stack Web3 engineer, an open-source contributor, mentor, and speaker, and the creator of proyecto26 and ProjectX, a comprehensive full-stack template designed to simplify the development of scalable and resilient applications using React and Temporal. He’s active in Medellín’s tech community and passionate about sharing knowledge through talks and workshops. Check out his Temporal Community Live session on Event-driven Architectures for Full-Stack Devs with Temporal and React.
Enny Frick is a software engineer with a focus on reliability, currently at ConductorOne and previously a site reliability engineer at Box. She has run Temporal Cluster on-premise, migrated those workloads to Temporal Cloud, and made contributions to the Temporal Cloud Terraform provider. Enny built the Terraform provider for Temporal Cloud and the ConductorOne connector.
Technical writing and education#
Sanil Khurana is a software engineer with experience across backend, platform, and DevOps roles, who uses Temporal in both production and exploratory contexts, and writes in-depth technical articles on systems architecture — including databases, data infrastructure, and workflow orchestration. Sanil authored an in-depth step-by-step breakdown of Temporal's internal architecture that makes all this much easier to understand!
Rebecca Powell leads two software engineering teams at Lichtblick SE, a renewable energy company focused on the German B2B sector. She has 25+ years experience working with Microsoft technologies, and their complex business critical processes are being moved to durable workflows using Temporal. Among her many technical articles is a three-part series on combining .NET Aspire with Temporal, complete with working code examples on GitHub.
Edmondo Porcu is a software engineer with 17+ years in scalable data infrastructure and distributed systems, currently working at Pinterest. He discovered Temporal after experiencing the pain of legacy workflow engines as a CTO at Credimi in 2016. He realized its potential for Durable Executions while investigating a lab management system. As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, he advocated for Temporal adoption at scale and co-founded the Durable Executions Center of Practice. He maintains the Awesome Durable Executions repository, contributes to the DataFusion community, and is active in the NYC tech community (Rust NYC, NixOS).
Internal champions#
Some contributions happen inside organizations, where engineers push for adoption, solve integration challenges, and help their teams succeed with Temporal.
Anastasiya Melentyeva is a Senior Engineer at Xero, part of the small, dedicated group responsible for successfully adopting Temporal. For the past two years, her work has involved building resilient workflows leveraging .NET SDK and creating internal tooling and processes for shipping code to production with confidence.
Shabnam Emdadi is currently a Staff Engineer at Shopify. Her recent project work has focused on merchant communications. She first got introduced to Temporal at my previous company, Peloton, where she stood up their self hosted cluster and where it is still used today! Shabnam is working in Ruby these days but more of a Go lady.
About the Constellation Program#
The Temporal Constellation Program brings together standout community members into a small, curated network of engineers building with Temporal. Constellation members are individuals who’ve made an impact: writing technical content, speaking at events, answering questions, and building open source tools that help others succeed with Temporal.
Benefits of Temporal Constellation Program membership:
- Be the first to know: Early looks at new features, Q&As with key Temporalites, and a private space just for program participants.
- Meet your peers: Swap insights and solve challenges with peers in your field who’ve been there too.
- Join us at Replay: The VIP experience at Temporal's flagship conference, Replay, in SF 2026.
- Be in the spotlight: We’ll co-promote your work through Temporal’s channels to reach a wider audience. Build skills, credibility, and visibility.
- Brag-worthy swag: Limited-edition Constellation gear for looking fresh both on Zoom and in person.
- Shape Temporal: Help build the future of Temporal with us. Hear about our upcoming features from the people building them, and provide feedback on what’s most valuable to you.
The Temporal Constellation Program is currently invite-only. We invite new members to the program periodically based on a number of factors, including:
- An established track record of making meaningful contributions that help others succeed with Temporal. For example: writing technical content, speaking at events, answering questions, and building open source tools.
- Nominations from Temporal employees and Constellation Program members.
- Engineers doing particularly notable things with Temporal and/or using Temporal at particularly notable companies.
Looking to get more involved?
- Learn more about the Constellation program and the first cohort at temporal.io/community/constellation
- Join Temporal’s Community Slack, where you can interact with these folks, Temporal Staff, and our large community of users
- Submit something you’ve built to Temporal’s Community Code Exchange
- Feel free to reach out to us with any questions in our Temporal Community Slack in #community-meta