Hello! I am Hayden Barnes. I am an open source community manager, developer relations professional, and experienced engineering manager.

I am a Microsoft MVP with a focus on Windows Subsystem for Linux and cross-platform/cross-architecture development.

I lead the AlmaLinux HPC and AI SIG and the WSL Community Telegram.

I am passionate about:

• sustainable open source
• HPC and AI/ML
• cross-platform/cross-architecture development
• Windows Subsystem for Linux
• old UNIX

I also:

• blog
• write books
• speak at conferences
• guest on a variety of podcasts and streams
• contribute to open source projects

My personal projects include:

• maintaining awesome-wsl and awesome-unix
• helping port Scoop, the Windows package manager, to arm64
• automating submission of GPTScript to WinGet and Scoop
• developing wslinternals, a set of tools for WSL power users
• creating Pengwin, the first bespoke Linux distribution optimized for WSL
• later creating Fedora Remix for WSL and Pengwin Enterprise

I am currently the senior open source community manager at Determined AI and Pachyderm, upstream open source AI/ML projects supported by HPE AI.

Prior to my work on AI/ML at HPE, I was a senior engineering manager at Rancher Labs, where I focused on internal DevOps, support for Windows Containers on Kubernetes, and documentation.

Before that, I was a developer advocate at Canonical where I focused on Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

I have experience in:

• building and leading effective results-oriented community teams
• building and leading groundbreaking engineering teams
• Windows dev and administration
• Linux dev and administration
• DevOps and MLOps
• containers, Kubernetes, virtualization
• with open source compliance and supply chain security