After graduation, Rice began her career in systems and networking software, initially working on portable network stack implementations in the C programming language. She later became proficient in Go and was recognised as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in the language.[2]
At Isovalent, Liz leads open-source initiatives, advocating for the use of eBPF for observability, security, and networking in cloud-native environments. She has played a major role in the promotion and development of Cilium and Tetragon.[3]
From 2019 to 2022, she served as Chair of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), where she helped guide the technical direction of projects such as Kubernetes, Envoy, and Cilium (computing).[4]
Liz is also on the board of OpenUK, an organisation that promotes open source, open data, and open hardware across the United Kingdom.[5]
Publications and speaking
Rice has authored multiple technical books published by O’Reilly Media, including:
As an international conference speaker, she has delivered keynotes and live-coding demonstrations at KubeCon, and other major industry events. Her Goto talk on containers is widely acclaimed.[6]
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