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Life inUptime
Career stories from the engineers, IT leaders, and technologists who build and run the internet.
Career signal from outages, mentors, pivots, and the real network floor.
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Why You Should Attend Tech Conferences
Alexis and Kevin talk about their experiences attending Cisco Live alongside return guest Melina Bertholf. They offer different perspectives about the event while highlighting the importance of building professional rela…
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Why You Should Attend Tech Conferences
Alexis and Kevin talk about their experiences attending Cisco Live alongside return guest Melina Bertholf. They offer different perspectives about the event while highlighting the importance of building professional rela…
Jul 16, 2026
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Chris Lapp: Becoming “THE GUY” (or GIRL)
Chris Lapp is an Emmy award-winning network engineer, focused on AI, media, and entertainment. Chris is also known as “The Guy”, the one you call when the problem is sitting between broadcast networking and media and the…
Jun 18, 2026
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Michael Keith Lewis: The Network Behind the Show
Today’s guest takes us behind the scenes of modern concert venues, which rely on wired and wireless IP networking. Michael Keith Lewis is a front-of-house engineer, tour manager, audio creator, and co-founder of Tr…
Jun 4, 2026
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Eyvonne Sharp: From Farm Roots to the Cloud
Today’s guest is Eyvonne Sharp, a Google Cloud technical leader, Network Collective co-founder, co-host of The Cloud Gambit podcast, and former network architect at a Fortune 100. Eyvonne shares stories from her impressi…
May 21, 2026
The format
Human stories from technical people.
Life in Uptime goes beyond the config and the command line. Alexis and Kevin ask how people actually got here, what changed them, and what listeners can use.
The break in
First job, lucky break, bad decision, and the moment the path started to make sense.
The turning point
Outages, mentors, layoffs, pivots, and weird assignments that changed the work.
The useful part
Specific lessons for building a tech career without pretending there is one correct path.
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