Samar Abbas is Co-Founder and CEO at Temporal Technologies, an open-source durable execution platform that makes applications reliable and fault-tolerant. The company has raised over $650M and achieved a $5B valuation, serving customers like Netflix, Snap, Box, and Datadog.

Samar worked at Microsoft for 11 years where he pioneered the Durable Task Framework for Azure, then joined Amazon where he contributed to Simple Workflow Service, and later became a principal engineer at Uber where he co-created Cadence with co-founder Maxim Fateev. He holds a degree from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology.

Samar and Maxim have been building durable execution frameworks for over 15 years across Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber, iterating on the same core concept five to six times before founding Temporal. The duo transitioned CEO roles mid-journey, with Samar taking over from Maxim to focus on execution and growth while Maxim focuses on technology and long-term vision as CTO.

Temporal has been adopted by over 183,000 weekly active developers and deployed in over 7 million clusters, with 600% growth in developer adoption over 18 months. The company's cloud service has over 2,500 customers globally with 184% net dollar retention and revenue growing 4.4x in the past 18 months.

Temporal powers mission-critical workflows at scale, with customers like Datadog running over 3 million workflows per month and Netflix processing 500,000 daily workflows. The platform has become essential infrastructure for agentic AI workloads, with hundreds of AI companies and major chip manufacturers adopting it in the past six months.