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