About
About Silicon Blade Consultants
Silicon Blade Consultants provides practical Embedded Linux and Yocto expertise to engineering teams building real products. The focus is on solving problems, improving maintainability, and helping teams move forward with confidence.
Background
Silicon Blade Consultants is led by an experienced embedded Linux engineer with over 30 years experience in Linux and Unix systems with a focus on Yocto and OpenEmbedded based systems.
The emphasis is always on practical results: getting systems working, making them maintainable, and enabling teams to support them long-term.
Previous Work includes
- Yocto and OpenEmbedded based platforms
- Migration from Buildroot to a Yocto Project
- Improving layer structure and maintainability
- Board bring-up and BSP integration
- Linux kernel and device tree work
- CI and release workflow issues
How we work
The goal is not to deliver reports that sit unused, but to help teams solve real problems and make lasting improvements to their platform.
Engagements are typically hands-on and focused on the areas causing the most friction: build reliability, platform architecture, and integration issues.
- Direct involvement with your platform and codebase
- Clear explanations and practical guidance
- Focus on maintainability, not short-term fixes
- Knowledge transfer to your internal team
Why Silicon Blade
Many Embedded Linux projects struggle not because of lack of effort, but because of hidden complexity in build systems, unclear structure, and fragile integration points.
Silicon Blade exists to help teams cut through that complexity, solve the underlying problems, and build platforms that are easier to understand, extend, and support.
Get in touch
Want to discuss your platform or project?
If you are working with Yocto or Embedded Linux and need practical help, get in touch to discuss your situation.