Bailey Hayes is the CTO at Cosmonic, WASI Subgroup co-chair, and Technical Steering Committee director of the Bytecode Alliance. She believes the future is in distributed systems and WebAssembly (Wasm). Her daily activities include wrangling microservices, finding new tools for better devx, and discovering the best food for any given location. She is a lifetime NC native and lives with her partner and two high energy dogs in Cary, NC.