# Maxim Fateev

> Maxim Fateev is the co-founder and CTO of Temporal Technologies and its former CEO. His engineering career spans Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Uber, including leadership on AWS Simple Workflow Service, the SQS storage backend, Cherami, and Cadence. He co-founded Temporal with Samar Abbas in 2019 to bring their workflow technology to a wider developer community.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CTO at Temporal Technologies
- **Organizations:** Temporal Technologies, Uber, Google, Microsoft, Amazon
- **Education:** Master’s degree in Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- **Known for:** Led architecture and development of AWS Simple Workflow Service and the storage backend for Simple Queue Service., Built Cherami and co-created Cadence at Uber; both projects were open-sourced., Co-founded Temporal Technologies in October 2019.

## Career timeline

- **2002** — First joined Amazon, working on its transition from a monolith toward a service architecture.
- **2004** — Led development of Amazon messaging infrastructure that became a foundation for SQS.
- **2010** — Met Samar Abbas on the AWS Simple Workflow Service team.
- **2015** — Reunited with Abbas at Uber; subsequently worked on Cherami and Cadence.
- **2017** — Cadence was made open source at Uber.
- **2019-10** — Co-founded Temporal Technologies and served as CEO.
- **2024** — Transitioned to CTO as Samar Abbas became CEO.

## Achievements

- Led architecture and development of AWS Simple Workflow Service and the storage backend for Simple Queue Service.
- Built Cherami and co-created Cadence at Uber; both projects were open-sourced.
- Co-founded Temporal Technologies in October 2019.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Appeared alongside Samar Abbas in an interview about Temporal’s development, AI agents, and its $550 million funding round at a $12.55 billion company valuation.
- **2026-07** — Joined 1Password’s Zero-Shot Learning podcast to discuss distributed systems and reliable AI agents, including a crash-recovery demonstration.
- **2026-04** — Interviewed by WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich at HumanX about durable execution and AI agents.

## Links

- Website: https://temporal.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fateev
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mfateev
- GitHub: https://github.com/mfateev

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