Sohan is a Lead Developer Advocate, based in the Netherlands. He started his career as a developer building bespoke mobile apps and has worked in the developer relations space since 2013, in companies such as Amazon, Gupshup and InMobi. He has always been interested in emerging technologies and how it shapes the world around us.

WebAssembly is garnering a lot of excitement because of it's unique combination of portability, security, and performance. We're seeing it used widely across browser, server-side, and IoT use cases. But what actually is WebAssembly? This talk will crack open the hood of WebAssembly and help demystify what is going on inside.  The core of the talk will focus on understanding what a WebAssembly module is and how it is executed. We'll explore the text and binary representations of a module; the data layout within a module; and understand the basics of how its bytecode instructions operate a stack machine. Then with an understanding of what a WebAssembly module is we'll take a look at how languages are compiling into WebAssembly and the types of runtimes that are actually executing WebAssembly. The talk will conclude with some of the usecase adoptions of this new technology.