Oscar Spencer
Principal Engineer with F5, Co-author of the Grain programming language, and TSC Director for the Bytecode Alliance, Oscar is passionate about advancing the future of WebAssembly.
Appears in 28 Episodes
Composable instrumentation in the Component Model | WebAssembly Unleashed
Debugging is where real engineering happens, and WebAssembly is reaching the point where “you can instrument it” isn’t good enough. In this episode of WebAssembly Unle...
AI + Wasm: Sandboxing codegen, fixing Wasmtime fast, & new research | WebAssembly Unleashed
AI is making code generation feel effortless, but it’s also flooding systems with more untrusted, machine-written logic than most teams are prepared to safely run. In ...
Why Programmability Still Wins: iRules, APIs, and Wasm (WorldTech IT) | WebAssembly Unleashed
WebAssembly Unleashed goes hands-on with a topic that shows up every time polished architectures collide with real production: programmability. Coming to you from F5's...
Why WebAssembly Belongs in AI Data Infrastructure | WebAssembly Unleashed
WebAssembly is usually framed as an application runtime story, but at AppWorld 2026 in Las Vegas, WebAssembly Unleashed shifts the spotlight to a more urgent frontier:...
From F5 iRules to WebAssembly: Programmability for All | WebAssembly Unleashed
In this episode of WebAssembly Unleashed, hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci are joined by DevCentral Community Evangelist, Jason Rahm, to discuss pro...
Exploring Microsoft’s Journey and Future with Wasm | WebAssembly Unleashed
In this episode of WebAssembly Unleashed, hosts Joel Moses and Oscar Spencer kick things off with updates on the upcoming Wasm.IO conference in Barcelona and the lates...
Wasm Proposal Hot Takes Part 2 | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci, along with special guest Pat Hickey, for part two of their in-depth discussion on the latest WebAssembly prop...
Wasm Hot Takes: Explore Controversial Proposals & Bold New Features | WebAssembly Unleashed
Get ready to unleash the raw truth about WebAssembly! In this episode of WebAssembly Unleashed, hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci are joined by guest...
Interns Gone Wasm: WebAssembly Research & Innovation | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join hosts Joel Moses and Oscar Spencer as they dig into recent developments in the world of WebAssembly, starting with a look at Microsoft's Wassette, an initiative u...
Unlocking the Secrets of Formal Verification in WebAssembly | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci as they dive deep into the world of formal verification with special guest Chris Fallin. In this episode of We...
WebAssembly SpecTec | WebAssembly Unleashed
Joins hosts Joel Moses and Oscar Spencer as they delve into the world of WebAssembly with special guest Andreas Rossberg, co-designer of the WebAssembly specification....
The Future of WebAssembly Garbage Collection | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci as they discuss the latest news and recent developments in WebAssembly, such as Zig 0.140 and projects like running ...
The Analyst's View of Wasm | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matthew Yacobucci as they discuss recent WebAssembly advancements, such as data science in browsers with WebR, LibreOffice no...
State of WebAssembly 2025 | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matthew Yacobucci as they take a retrospective look at WebAssembly's exciting developments from 2024 and share their insightf...
Bytecode Alliance + | WebAssembly Unleashed
In this episode of WebAssembly Unleashed, hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci discuss recent developments in the world of WebAssembly, including govern...
WebAssembly: Saving the Early Internet | WebAssembly Unleashed
Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed with hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci. Join us as we dive into the latest happenings in the Wasm community. Fresh f...
Turning Wasm Research Passions into a Business | WebAssembly Unleashed
Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed with hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci. Join us to discover who’s recently experienced impressive performance improv...
Exploring the Evolution and Future of Wasm | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matthew Yacobucci in an informative and engaging podcast episode, diving into the world of WebAssembly (Wasm). Discover the o...
User Experience Deploying Wasm | WebAssembly Unleashed
In this episode our hosts are joined by Shopify’s Saúl Cabrera to talk about his team’s experience using and deploying WebAssembly. Listen in to learn which Wasm propo...
Async and ISYSWASFA | WebAssembly Unleashed
In this episode our hosts are joined by Fermyon’s Joel Dice to dive deeper into ISYSWASFA, async, and WebAssembly. Listen in to learn about the new Wasi release cadenc...