Everardo Garcia
Everardo Garcia is an embedded systems engineer and technical leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing, validating, and deploying real-world embedded and IoT systems.
His background spans automotive ECUs, vehicle telematics, and connected IoT products, with experience ranging from bare-metal and RTOS-based microcontrollers to Embedded Linux platforms. Everardo has contributed to and led the development of more than a dozen embedded systems, including vehicle telematics products deployed to over 800,000 units in the field, many of which have remained in active service for a decade or more.
A defining aspect of his work is end-to-end system ownership—from firmware architecture and hardware bring-up to system-level validation of real-world field testing in operational environments. He has led on-vehicle testing, production validation, and failure analysis to ensure systems behave correctly not only in the lab, but under real customer usage conditions.
In addition to hands-on development, Everardo has led and mentored engineering teams, supported proof-of-concept initiatives, and helped organizations translate complex requirements into production-ready, field-proven embedded solutions.
He holds a Master’s degree in Telematics and is passionate about pragmatic embedded design, long-lived systems, and sharing lessons learned from products that must work outside the lab.
Accelerating System-Level Embedded Testing with OpenHTF and AI
Status: Coming up in April 2026!In many embedded development workflows, system-level and black-box testing are naturally positioned later in the lifecycle, once firmware functionality and system behavior have stabilized. While effective for validation, this timing can limit early feedback on real device behavior.
This talk presents a practical approach to accelerating system-level testing by combining OpenHTF with AI-assisted development. By leveraging AI to bootstrap test frameworks and focusing firmware engineers on test design rather than infrastructure, teams can bring automated device-under-test validation online much earlier in the development cycle.
Through real embedded firmware experience, we demonstrate how early system-level automation complements unit and integration tests, enabling faster iteration, improved reliability, and smoother collaboration between firmware and QA teams.
