Life In Uptime
Hosted by Alexis and Kevin · Packet Pushers
4.9from 40 ratings
- 25
- Episodes
- 24
- Transcribed
- 40
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Life In Uptime
Hosted by content creators Alexis Bertholf and Kevin Nanns, Life In Uptime is a podcast that explores the real journeys of the people who build and run the backbone of the internet—network engineers, IT leaders, and technologists across the industry. But this isn't just another technology podcast. It’s about the people behind it. Each episode dives into the personal and professional paths that got them where they are today—because the road to a career in technology isn’t one-size-fits-all. Whether someone started in retail, dropped out of college, or studied computer science, every journey has value. And understanding that journey is just as important as understanding the tech they work on. This show is for anyone wondering how to break into tech, where it can take you, and what’s possible when you expand your mindset. Because no matter where you're starting from, there’s a way in—and we’re here to show you how.
- Publisher
- Packet Pushers
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Sept 2025
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
24 of 25 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
LIU024: Dennis Thankachan: Lightyear and Beyond
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
LIU023: Wendell Odom – The Man Who Wrote THE Book
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
LIU022: Chris Grundemann – From Pulling Cable to Network Automation Forum
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LIU024: Dennis Thankachan: Lightyear and Beyond
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What features would you want from it? Yeah. And the thing I discovered was, you know, purchasing a service is just one small part of the problem in a network engineer's life. There's also getting it installed, getting, you know, physical infrastructure installed is like the bane of a network engineer's existence. Many times, you know, I discovered and then there's the whole there's inventory, there's ticketing, there's payments, there's configuration changes. That's just on the telecom side, too. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Including everything else. And a lot of IT people and networking folk are working on much more than that. […]
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- Dennis Thankachan
- Wendell Odom
- Chris Grundemann
- Justin Ryburn
- Ricki Cook
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 16 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 24 ratings
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Who hosts Life In Uptime?
Alexis and Kevin host the show. Published by Packet Pushers.
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