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 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