Samar Abbas
Founder at Temporal Technologies
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarSamar Abbas is a founder and seasoned back-end engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening distributed, durable orchestration systems. Based in Woodinville, WA, he served as Co-founder/CTO for Temporal Technologies and made significant contributions to the Cadence/Temporal ecosystem—improving core server performance, persistence metrics, client reliability, and Go SDK package migration. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend expertise, from tuning database consistency and fixing panics to refining build and test infrastructure. Known for pragmatic refactors and thoughtful API alignment, he helps translate complex long-running workflow semantics into production-grade, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
apidoc10
cassandra10
testing10
open-source10
workflow-engine10
go10
api10
sdk10
golang10
thrift10
task-management9
workflow-automation9
functionfs9
performance-tuning9
distributed-systems8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cadence-workflow/cadence
Nov 2016 - Feb 2020
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 releases, 156 commits, 207 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Samar primarily contributed to back-end aspects of the Cadence project, focusing on core functionality and performance. Their work included implementing metric support for the persistence API, fixing various types of panics, and tuning database consistency levels. The user also made changes to the testing infrastructure and build scripts, demonstrating a DevOps focus. Additionally, the commits involved configuration changes and the removal of test executables.
cadenceresilientorchestration-engineservice-buslogic
cadence-workflow/cadence-go-client
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
Framework for authoring workflows and activities running on top of the Cadence orchestration engine.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 21 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Samar primarily contributed to the Cadence Go client, making updates and porting code related to the Cadence server's IDL definitions. They refactored and added new functionality including support for features such as domain registration, and workflow execution. They also addressed bugs and implemented changes to enhance the client's interaction with the Cadence service and improve overall reliability.
golangworkflow-functionscadenceorchestrationauthoring-workflows
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