Embedded Linux, video platforms & Edge AI
Senior-level consulting in embedded Linux, video platforms, device diagnostics, system architecture and Edge AI.
System-level engineering
Magnolia Consulting investigates difficult failures, modernises software platforms and delivers reliable products across hardware, Linux, middleware, multimedia pipelines, applications, cloud services and test infrastructure.
Hardware → Linux → Wi-Fi & networking → Middleware → Multimedia → Applications → Test infrastructure
Technical capabilities
Hands-on implementation and system-level technical leadership for difficult commercial products, especially where failures span platforms, components, or teams.
Native C and C++, platform integration, lifecycle behaviour, diagnostics and Wi-Fi client stabilisation. Experience includes resolving router and extender interoperability issues on set-top-box platforms deployed at scale, using 802.11ac/ax, NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant.
GStreamer, transport streams, playback, recording, transitions, synchronisation and investigation of black screens, freezes, corruption and quality issues.
Wayland, Weston, WPE and DBus across application lifecycle, compositor behaviour, presentation and device-level diagnostics.
Production observability, end-to-end device validation, video fault monitoring and practical on-device analysis for constrained hardware.
Problems solved
The consultancy is particularly effective in ambiguous situations: an intermittent failure, a mature platform that needs to evolve, or a product behaviour no one team fully owns.
Examine system behaviour, improve diagnostic evidence and identify the conditions behind crashes, freezes or unexplained device behaviour.
Trace a problem through the content, multimedia pipeline, decoder, application and platform rather than assuming the first visible cause.
Define an incremental change strategy that improves the architecture without destabilising established customers or delivery.
Stabilise client connectivity where device behaviour differs across routers, extenders and home networks, supported by targeted diagnostics and practical interoperability testing.
Design robust production diagnostics that turn remote device failures into useful technical evidence.
How I work
Begin with the visible failure, business objective and available evidence, rather than assuming one suspected component is responsible.
Identify relevant data flows and ownership boundaries, then add targeted diagnostics or create a reproduction strategy.
Use evidence to distinguish root causes from secondary symptoms and plausible but unsupported theories.
Recommend or implement a solution that accounts for production constraints, then document findings for the team that will own it.
About Magnolia Consulting
Magnolia Consulting is led by Jarek Dziedzic, a senior software engineer and technical leader with around two decades of commercial experience in embedded systems, television and media technology. Based in Poland, the consultancy works remotely with international engineering teams.
Evidence, root-cause analysis, a reproduction strategy, options and a clear set of next steps.
Independent assessment of system risks, integration concerns, maintainability and technical direction.
Working validation for diagnostics, video analysis, Edge AI, test automation or platform integration.
Defined hands-on support that can combine implementation, investigation, reviews and mentoring.
A good first step
Share the product context, symptoms and current technical understanding. An initial conversation can establish whether the useful next step is an investigation, review, prototype or implementation project.