About Hayden

Hello! I am Hayden Barnes. I am an open source community manager and experienced engineering manager.

I am a Microsoft MVP with a focus on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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 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

Personal 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

Work

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