Shawn Prestridge has served as Senior Field Application Engineer at IAR Systems since 2008 and became the US FAE Team Leader in 2019; he has been in the software industry since 1993. Before joining IAR Systems he worked as Embedded Hardware/Software Engineer and with Embedded Development. Shawn holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Software Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering specializing in Quantum Cryptography, all with Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Embedded development environments are often brittle—tied to specific host setups, compiler versions, and SDKs. As teams grow or go remote, these inconsistencies cause environment drift, onboardi...