Temporal Technologies

Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify your code, make your applications more reliable, and help you deliver more features faster.

We are a team of 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.