# Samar Abbas

> Samar Abbas is the co-founder and CEO of Temporal Technologies. He began his career at Microsoft in 2000, joined the AWS Simple Workflow team, co-created Microsoft’s Durable Task Framework, and built Cadence with Maxim Fateev at Uber. The pair founded Temporal in October 2019; Abbas became CEO in April 2024. His work centers on reliable execution of distributed applications and, increasingly, long-running AI agents.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Temporal Technologies
- **Organizations:** Temporal Technologies, Uber, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services
- **From:** Karachi, Pakistan
- **Education:** BS in Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
- **Known for:** Member of the team that shipped public AWS Simple Workflow Service in 2012., Co-created the open-source Durable Task Framework, later used as the foundation for Azure Durable Functions., Co-created Cadence at Uber; adoption exceeded 100 internal use cases over roughly three years.

## Career timeline

- **2000** — Began his career at Microsoft, subsequently working on developer platforms, server products, and tooling.
- **2010** — Joined the AWS Simple Workflow team and met Maxim Fateev.
- **2012** — Helped ship the public AWS Simple Workflow Service; subsequently returned to Microsoft Azure.
- **2012–2015** — Worked on Azure messaging and Event Hubs; co-created Durable Task Framework with Affan Dar through an internal hackathon.
- **2015** — Joined Uber in Seattle, where Fateev arrived approximately one month later.
- **2017** — Cadence became an open-source workflow project at Uber.
- **2019-10** — Co-founded Temporal Technologies with Fateev and served as CTO.
- **2024-04** — Became CEO; Fateev became CTO.
- **2026-09** — Led Temporal during its announced $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation.

## Achievements

- Member of the team that shipped public AWS Simple Workflow Service in 2012.
- Co-created the open-source Durable Task Framework, later used as the foundation for Azure Durable Functions.
- Co-created Cadence at Uber; adoption exceeded 100 internal use cases over roughly three years.
- Co-founded Temporal Technologies in October 2019.
- Became CEO in April 2024 and led the company through Series C, D, and E financings.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Temporal announced on October 6 that the Oso team had joined to accelerate AI agent security work.
- **2026-09** — Temporal announced a $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation on September 14; reported more than 4,300 paying customers and 570 employees.
- **2026-09** — Published an essay arguing that companies must enforce and audit the authority delegated to AI agents.
- **2026-08** — Discussed internal AI adoption, faster feature delivery, review bottlenecks, and limits of productivity measurement in an interview with The New Stack.
- **2026-04** — Discussed his early programming experiences and the analogy between AI agents and the MS-DOS era.
- **2026-02** — Temporal announced a $300 million Series D at a $5 billion valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://temporal.io/about
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samar-abbas-381997
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/SamarAtTemporal
- GitHub: https://github.com/samarabbas

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