About | Temporal

Who we are

We are a team of nearly 90 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 came 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 aboutTemporal

First hand accounts on what drove our leadership team to Temporal.

An Open Letter to the Temporal User Community

by Maxim Fateev
CEO & Co-Founder

Why I Joined Temporal

by Charles Zedlewski
Chief Product Officer

A journey

by Samar Abbas
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.

Netflix

Netflix engineers spend less time writing logic to maintain application consistency or guard against failures because Temporal does it for them. The Temporal platform is easy to operate and fits naturally in our development workflow.

Rob Zeinert

Senior Software Engineer

Railway

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

Snap

If any services go down, even Temporal Server, things can be restored to their previous state and resumed… enabling engineers to assume things will run reliably by default.

Snap Engineering

Checkr

Developer happiness has increased. Thinking in terms of workflows and activities has clarified our product and allowed us to share workflow components with different teams.

Ben Jacobson

Staff Software Engineer, Checkr