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
- 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