Interesting. Not looking to switch roles at present but what do you make of these two projects? One done basically over a weekend, one done over many weekends
Removed a bunch of bad code and got a 1/3rd speed up
https://github.com/mhostetter/gr-adsb/pull/69
Added a new chip to qemu along with some significant peripherals. Never finished it but I did boot Linux on it I think with the upstream device tree.