Maxim Fateev
Co-Founder CTO at Temporal Technologies
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMaxim Fateev is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with over 20 years in distributed systems and a decade-plus as a public contributor and maintainer of Temporal, where he serves as Co-Founder and CTO. He has deep hands-on expertise building resilient workflow orchestration, persistence layers, and SDKs—work honed at Amazon, Google, Uber and visible in significant contributions to Temporal and Cadence's core services and SDKs in Go and Java. Maxim combines product-level technical vision with low-level implementation chops, from SQL/Cassandra persistence and schema work to async state machines and SDK ergonomics. Based in Bellevue, he balances running a fast-growing developer-facing platform with occasional code-level contributions, often refactoring tests, polishing APIs, and evolving sample apps to reflect new SDK capabilities. A physicist by training with an MSc from MSU and a CS master’s from UFRJ, he brings an analytical, research-oriented approach to practical, production-grade infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroLomonosov Moscow State University
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Github Skills (35)
microservice-framework10
apidoc10
temporal10
testing10
cadence10
open-source10
work-flow10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
java10
javas10
parallel-processing10
go10
api10
sdk10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
temporalio/sdk-java
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Temporal Java SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 270 reviews, 140 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Maxim contributed to the Temporal Java SDK, focusing on improving the reliability and efficiency of the system. The commits reveal work on asynchronous activity retries, refactoring of state machines, including thread management. They also addressed issues with workflow task handling and time-related operations, demonstrating expertise in the core internal workings of the SDK.
orchestrationworkflow-engineworkflow-toolframeworksdk
temporalio/samples-java
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Temporal Java SDK samples
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 41 reviews, 38 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to updating the Java SDK samples for the Temporal platform. These changes involved modifying existing code to comply with the new Java SDK API, including package restructuring and incorporating new features like HelloCron. The user also updated build configurations and documentation. Additionally, the user made changes to support SDK changes, which included fixing proto changes and updating to the latest versions of the Java library.
workflow-enginesdk-samplessdktemporaljava
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