From Network Engineer to Applied AI: Ryan Booth on the Career Path Nobody Maps Out

About this episode

Keith interviews Ryan Booth about his transition from network engineering to applied AI and the skills that facilitate this career change.

Description: Keith sits down with Ryan Booth — former network automation specialist, Apstra alum, and now principal consultant at Blue Ridge Consulting — to trace the real career arc from infrastructure engineer to applied AI practitioner. They dig into the transferable skills that actually matter (hint: it's not the coding), why curiosity-driven entry points like [...]

People in this episode

Host: Keith

Guest: Ryan Booth

Topics covered

• career development
• applied AI
• network engineering
• transferable skills
• infrastructure

Keywords

• network engineer
• applied AI
• career path
• infrastructure engineer
• transferable skills

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blue Ridge Consulting, Apstra