THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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SPEAKER DISPLAY

Andrew Danks

Andrew Danks

TITLE:Sr. Staff Software Engineer

COMPANY:Affirm

STATUS UPDATE

Andrew is the Data Infrastructure Tech Lead at Affirm, architecting the batch and streaming platforms that power ML, Marketing, Billing, Capital, Ledger, and many other critical applications handling Money Movement and the entirety of the loan and customer lifecycle. A passionate advocate for functional programming and distributed systems, he previously built Search and ML-driven Data Quality systems.

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