Samar Abbas

Samar Abbas

Co-Founder & CEO at Temporal
Woodinville, Washington, United States

Samar Abbas is currently Co-Founder & CEO at Temporal Technologies and also serves as Co-Founder & CTO at Temporal Technologies Inc. He previously held engineering roles at Amazon.com and Microsoft, including Principal Software Engineer for Azure EventHubs and Senior Software Engineer for Azure Service Bus. He is a founder of Temporal, which is still running.

Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible Applications

Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar hosts Temporal Co-Founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev in studio. Temporal was founded in 2019 based on an open-source microservices orchestration engine project but is the result of a more than decade-long partnership between the two co-founders that spanned their time working on different iterations of the same thing at AWS, Microsoft, and Uber. In this episode, Soma, Samar, and Maxim dive into the challenges of building an open-source ecosystem while also working on a commercial offering and scaling a successful company, how to navigate and adjust a product roadmap in an ever-changing world of…

Organizations

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    Temporal Co-Founder & CEO 2024–present · current
  • Temporal Technologies Inc Co-Founder & CTO 2019–present · current
  • Uber Staff Software Engineer 2015–2019 · past

Education

  • Happy Home 1983–1993
  • GIK Institute

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