Pete started out as a PhD mathematician teaching college classes, only to eventually discover he likes computers better. He worked for Terry Slattery coding part of the Cisco IOS CLI interpreter, which grew into teaching network classes and consulting. He has been a CCIE for over 25 years, now gone Emeritus. He authored or designed several Cisco courses, and pre-publication reviewed many tech books, while designing networks big and small. Pete is deeply interested in R&S, is getting over MPLS, loves doing network design, application troubleshooting, and is now learning all he can about various datacenter technologies. He has dabbled in coding/automation, AI, labbed with Kubernetes, etc. Now semi-retired, blogging and doing Tech Field Day events.
Pete Welcher will join us as a delegate at AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 on January 28, 2026!
Thank you for being part of the Tech Field Day community! Our mailing list is a great way to stay up to date on our events and technical content, and we appreciate your signup.
We promise that we’ll never spam you, send ads, or sell your information. This list will only be used to communicate with our community about our events and content. And we’ll limit it to no more than one message per week.
Although we only need your email address, it would be nice if you provided a little more information to help us get to know you better!