# Stephen Townshend — SRE Team Lead at isDown

URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/stephen-townshend-sre-team-lead-at-isdown

Category: podcast
Date: 2026-03-04
Publication: Humans of Reliability
Sylvain Kalache's role: host

[Original source](https://rootly.com/humans-of-reliability/stephen-townshend)

[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx1EPpKBXmA)

Burnout doesn't ask permission — the physiology of burnout from an incident responder's perspective, warning signs, recovery, and the systemic changes the industry must make.

Hosts: Sylvain Kalache

Guests: Stephen Townshend

## Topics

- [SRE](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/sre.md)
- [Incident Management](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/incident-management.md)
- [On-Call](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/on-call.md)
- [Burnout](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/topics/burnout.md)

## Participants

- Stephen Townshend — SRE Team Lead, isDown