THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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SPEAKER DISPLAY

Alan Xu

Alan Xu

TITLE:Senior Software Engineer

COMPANY:Affirm

STATUS UPDATE

Alan is a Senior Software Engineer on Affirm’s Batch Infrastructure platform team, responsible for building and operating the data frameworks that run critical ML and financial pipelines at scale. More recently, Alan led the development and launch of Affirm’s Temporal platform which unlocked better system reliability, execution safety, and accelerated developer workflows across core systems like Checkout, Comms, Infra Orchestration, ML and more.

TALK

Lightning Round Talks

ABSTRACT

In this lightning round session, you will hear from the following speakers:

Write durable and reliable workflows in Swift with Temporal

Franz Busch | Apple

How Affirm uses Temporal as a Batch Data Plane

Andrew Danks & Alan Xu | Affirm