Liz Rice
Chief Open Source Officer at Cilium
Enfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLiz Rice is a seasoned cloud-native leader and engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in containers, eBPF, security and distributed systems, currently serving as Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent. A published O'Reilly author of Container Security and Learning eBPF, she blends deep systems-level coding (including live-coding demos in Go) with governance experience on the CNCF governing board and as former chair of its Technical Oversight Committee. Liz is an active contributor and committer to prominent projects like Cilium, and her hands-on work on Kubernetes security tools such as kube-hunter and kube-bench reflects a rare combination of product, DevOps and backend engineering skills. Known for pragmatic, research-driven product decisions and collaborative partnerships, she also holds recognition as an AWS Container Hero and Google Developer Expert in Go. Based in the UK, she pairs entrepreneurial experience from founding startups with a track record of making complex cloud infrastructure accessible and demonstrable in a few lines of code.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mastere, Mastere at Ecole Centrale ParisBA Hons, BA Hons at University of Cambridge
english, french
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Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
python10
ebpf10
it-security10
c1110
linux-kernel10
security10
c1710
go10
kubernetes-pods10
maps10
documentation10
testing9
community-management9
yaml9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
lizrice/learning-ebpf
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Learning eBPF, published by O'Reilly - out now! Here's where you'll find a VM config for the examples, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 45 commits, 19 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Liz primarily focused on developing eBPF programs for Linux. Their contributions include writing eBPF code for various functionalities, such as kprobes, XDP, and tracepoints related to system calls. They also added userspace code for interacting with and utilizing these eBPF programs. Furthermore, the user worked on examples for different chapters in the associated learning eBPF book.
ebpfebpf-co-relinux-kernel
aquasecurity/kube-bench
Jun 2017 - Feb 2021
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:38 releases, 67 reviews, 362 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Liz primarily contributed to improving the functionality and stability of the Kubernetes security benchmark tool. They refactored and improved the audit commands, specifically by focusing on command execution and handling the environment. The user updated and improved the test framework to incorporate more complex checks, including support for JSONPath and YAMLPath expressions. The user also worked on integrating the tool with a PostgreSQL database and added features for environment variable handling, demonstrating both backend development and DevOps skills.
cis-securitydefinedsecuritykube-benchopenshift
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