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Long-running embedded projects inevitably accumulate build-system and host-platform debt. Team turnover, drifting documentation, and “crunch mode” shortcuts compound over time until onboarding a new engineer takes weeks and even experienced developers struggle to make safe changes. These problems are especially acute in Linux-based and cross-platform environments, where host variability and undocumented assumptions undermine reproducibility.
This session distills lessons learned from modernizing embedded firmware build environments across Linux hosts and CI systems. Attendees will learn practical techniques for eliminating “it works on my machine” failures, accelerating incremental and clean builds, and making build behavior explicit and reproducible using open-source tooling. Topics include scripting and automation patterns, modern command runners, and structuring build systems to be CI-friendly and maintainable.
Joe Schneider, embedded systems veteran and CEO of Dojo Five, will share concrete practices that reduce onboarding time, improve build reliability, and restore developer productivity by systematically attacking build-system and host-level technical debt.
