Summary
Rob Rice is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of recent experience and a three-decade career focused on routing, embedded systems, and networking software for data centers and service providers. Currently an MTS at Enfabrica, he designs firmware and NIC features with a practical emphasis on multi-host support, QoS, and robust error recovery, and previously led major overhauls of BGP and routing policy at Broadcom. His background spans startups and large firms—driving layer 3 protocol implementations, routing infrastructure (ARP, DHCP, VRRP, IPv6), non-stop forwarding, and kernel/SoC drivers—paired with an M.Eng. from Cornell. Comfortable toggling between individual contributor and technical lead roles, he combines deep protocol expertise with hands-on driver and firmware development and automated pytest-driven validation. An Air Force veteran who began his career on networking projects in Europe, he brings both systems-level rigor and product-focused pragmatism to complex networking problems.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng., Electrical Engineering, M.Eng., Electrical Engineering at Cornell University
English, German