Aaron Byrd has been with AT&T for over 19 years. In 2010, he personally developed and deployed AT&T's first use of a virtualization container technology in AT&T Production Datacenter environment.

For the past 4 years Aaron has been involved with driving a transition of AT&T Access Network to utilize a Cloud architecture while using SDN and NFV technologies. Aaron is currently serving as the Project Technical Leader for the Akraino SDN Enabled Broadband Access blueprint.