Bailey Hayes
Chief Technology Officer at Cosmonic
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolBailey Hayes is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud-native platforms for Go microservices on Kubernetes. He has led platform and developer-experience initiatives—shifting large codebases from Java/Spring to Go, establishing GitOps with Kustomize, and creating CI/CD/IaC pipelines that scale across hundreds of teams. Bailey’s background spans low-level graphics and performance work (WebGL, Canvas2D, and a high-framerate node-link renderer) to integrating Emscripten for WebAssembly, reflecting a blend of systems and frontend expertise. He’s contributed QA and test automation improvements to the prominent emscripten-core project, strengthening its WebGL and optimization testing. Based in Cary, NC, he combines strategic leadership with boots-on-the-ground engineering, shipping production microservices, libraries, and developer tooling. Colleagues rely on him to reduce operational risk, codify best practices, and turn complex platform requirements into pragmatic, reusable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (12)
testing10
emscripten10
blazor-webassembly10
webassembly10
python10
javascript8
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
actionscript6
dojo6
syntax-highlighting6
sas6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
emscripten-core/emscripten
Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
Emscripten: An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bailey's contributions center on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the Emscripten project. They added tests for WebGL context creation and exported functions, specifically addressing potential JavaScript exceptions and large exported function response files. Furthermore, they implemented tests to cover warnings related to code optimization and code generation configurations, using the tests to validate and ensure project correctness.
compileremscriptenllvmwebassemblywasm
wasmCloud/wash
Aug 2025 - Mar 2026
The Wasm Shell
Contributions:2 releases, 34 reviews, 34 PRs in 6 months
shell
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