I'm Melissa — Senior Developer Advocate at Temporal ☕ I build demos, write, speak, and run community events around durable execution and agentic systems.
Before Temporal, I was at DataStax/Langflow working on vector search, RAG, and the first wave of agent tooling. Before that, I was a CS student at San José State.
Currently: building durable agent demos, thinking out loud about harness engineering, and running way too many meetups in the Bay Area.
- AI Cookbook — patterns and recipes for building AI applications with Temporal
- AI Iceberg — a multi-partner demo on everything under the surface of an agent
- Your Agents Should Be Durable — AI Dev 26
- MCP Builders Series Talk
- The Power of Vision Models in Building Image Recognition Apps
- Foundations of Building Agents and MCP in Langflow
I make things on camera because building in public is good, and learning in public is better.
Melissa's Cafe — my series explaining hard technical concepts over a cup of something. 1M+ views and counting.
Vibe Check — a livestream series where I build alongside folks from across the ecosystem and we find out together whether the tool actually holds up.
From the Langflow/DataStax era (Apache Cassandra, vector embeddings, RAG, early agents)
Sometimes a visual isn't worth a thousand words and you have to write the thing yourself.
- Diving into the AI Iceberg: What lies beneath your AI agents
- Building an AI Resume Assistant
- Building a Simple AI Agent
- Top 3 Mistakes I Made While Building AI Agents
- Building an AI-powered Fashion Recommendation App
Always happy to talk AI, Durable Execution, DevRel, or where to find good matcha.
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- Email: melienherrera@gmail.com 💌