Practical Strategies for Reducing Build-System and Host Tech Debt

Session details:

Over years of crunch cycles and team turnover, embedded projects accumulate layers of build-system and host-platform tech debt. Documentation drifts, shortcuts pile up, and onboarding slows to a crawl. In many organizations, it can take days just to bring up a clean build environment—an indicator that deeper host tool debt will delay new engineers from contributing for months.

This session distills proven strategies for eliminating “works on my machine” issues, accelerating both incremental host builds and clean CI builds, leveraging modern command runners, and scripting everything.

Joe Schneider, CEO of Dojo Five, will share frameworks and practices that have helped teams cut onboarding times, reduce friction, and recover millions of dollars lost to productivity-sapping tech debt.