Replay 2025 Keynote: Modernise

Maxim Fateev

CTO and Co-Founder

Temporal

Max is the CTO and co-founder of Temporal. He is a 20-year veteran of AWS, Google, and Uber, engineering leadership, having led the development of the SQS replicated message store and the Simple Workflow service at AWS, 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.

Preeti Somal

Senior VP, Engineering

Temporal

Preeti is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Temporal. Preeti is passionate about building great products, growing world-class organizations, and solving complex problems. Prior to Temporal, Preeti led the Platform, Security, and IT engineering organizations at HashiCorp. Her extensive career includes engineering leadership roles at Yahoo!, VMware, and Oracle. While at Yahoo! Preeti was VP of Cloud Services in the Platform organization, delivering highly scalable services used by engineers across Yahoo to build and operate applications with improved agility, reliability, and security. These services power Yahoo!’s consumer and advertising business.

Steve Androulakis

Sr. Staff Solutions Architect

Temporal

Steve helps developers at companies like Netflix, Stripe and Airbnb thrive using Temporal. Before that, he worked at Amazon in Sydney and Seattle for more than 5 years. He brings a decade of full stack developer experience helping biomedical researchers process and make sense of their data.

Liang Mei

Engineering Manager

Temporal

Liang brings over a decade of specialized expertise in distributed systems, helping teams build more reliable and scalable applications. At Temporal, he leads the team responsible for designing and developing Temporal's core replication stack, enabling extraordinary levels of availability beyond the capabilities of a single cluster. Through this replication stack, Liang's team delivers the global namespaces offering on Temporal Cloud, ensuring 99.99% availability and resilience against regional outages. Additionally, they develop internal tools that seamlessly migrate customer workloads between clusters. Before joining Temporal, Liang managed the Uber Cadence team and was an active contributor to the Cadence community.