Aaron Dunlap

Aaron Dunlap

Senior Principal - AI

Uniti Group Inc.

Professional Summary

Senior Principal - AI with over 20 years of experience in software development, data management, and enterprise solutions. Champion of "AI First" development methodology, leading teams in implementing Azure AI solutions including Agentic AI systems serving 9,000+ employees.
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Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

1998-09-01
2005-05-31

University of Southern Indiana

Computer Science Studies

2000-09-01
2001-05-31

Indiana University Bloomington

Interests

Agentic AI Azure AI & Cloud Architecture DevOps & Infrastructure as Code Machine Learning & Automation
Professional Summary
Lead AI Development Architect with over 20 years of experience in software development, data management, and enterprise solutions. Champion of “AI First” development methodology, leading teams in implementing Azure AI solutions including Agentic AI systems serving 9,000+ employees. Passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive operational excellence and business transformation.

Experience

  1. Senior Principal - AI

    Uniti Group Inc.
    • Founded the Enterprise AI Platform - Created the organization’s sanctioned AI platform from the ground up, taking it from zero to agentic AI systems serving 9,000+ employees, and continue to own its identity, agent tooling, and governance architecture
    • Zero-Trust Identity Architecture for AI Agents - Architected a dual-token authentication model (application JWT plus delegated Entra ID user token) that lets AI agents act as the authenticated end user against Microsoft Graph, Azure DevOps, and Salesforce, eliminating over-privileged service principals and making every agent action attributable to a real person; now the standard auth pattern across every service on the platform
    • Enterprise Tool Ecosystem via Model Context Protocol - Built and operate the MCP server layer giving AI agents governed access to enterprise systems of record including mail, calendar, Teams, work items, wikis, and CRM, with per-user authorization enforced at the tool boundary rather than trusted to the model; authored the token-forwarding contract in the shared agent SDK consumed by every downstream service
    • Source Control Migration Platform - Designed and productionized the organization’s Azure DevOps to GitHub migration system, automating multi-step authentication, repository transfer, team-permission cloning, and work-item integration wiring, with large-repository gating, self-healing detection of stalled migrations, and preflight validation, converting a manual failure-prone process into a self-service workflow adopted enterprise-wide
    • Agentic Software Engineering at Scale - Deployed autonomous test-generation agents across six production repositories spanning .NET, TypeScript, and Python that independently raise unit-test coverage and open reviewed pull requests on a daily cadence, solving the cross-language build and coverage-harness problems that separate a working system from a demo
    • Autonomous Agent Operations Platform - Built the operational substrate for a production agent fleet including event-driven intake from Microsoft Graph webhooks, LLM-based triage and routing, cross-instance agent coordination, a persistent-memory service with graph-based associative recall, scheduled execution, and human-in-the-loop approval gates, so agents execute real business workflows end to end with full audit trails
    • Conversational AI in Microsoft Teams - Delivered the Teams interface to the enterprise AI platform, bringing governed LLM access into the tool employees already use, with mention-gating for group channels, frictionless OAuth, multimodal image input and output, and per-user session configuration

  2. Data Warehouse Project Manager

    Mead Johnson Nutrition
    • Managed ETL pipelines and Infosphere DataStage administration for enterprise data warehouse
    • Led project planning and vendor management for data infrastructure initiatives
    • Coordinated cross-functional teams to deliver business intelligence solutions
    • Ensured data quality and governance across multiple data sources

  3. SQL Server / Greenplum Database Administrator

    Springleaf Financial Services
    • Administered Greenplum Data Computing Appliance for large-scale analytics
    • Managed Microsoft SQL Server and Analysis Services environments
    • Optimized database performance and ensured high availability
    • Implemented backup and disaster recovery procedures

  4. Programmer

    Springleaf Financial Services
    • Developed and maintained online and offline financial systems
    • Built data warehouse ETL processes and reporting solutions
    • Collaborated with business analysts to translate requirements into technical solutions
    • Supported mission-critical applications serving nationwide customer base

  5. Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

    American General Financial Services
    • Led quality assurance initiatives for enterprise financial applications
    • Developed comprehensive test plans and automated testing procedures
    • Collaborated with development teams to identify and resolve defects
    • Ensured compliance with financial industry regulations and standards

Education

  1. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

    University of Southern Indiana

  2. Computer Science Studies

    Indiana University Bloomington
Technical Skills
AI & Machine Learning
GPT-3 / GPT-4 / GPT-5
ChatGPT / Generative AI
Agentic AI / Stable Diffusion
Azure Machine Learning / Grok
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Multi-Agent Orchestration / A2A
Cloud & DevOps
Microsoft Azure
Azure DevOps Services
Kubernetes / Docker
CI/CD / Infrastructure as Code
GitHub Actions / Helm / Bicep
Microsoft Entra ID / OAuth
Cloud Computing
Programming Languages
Python
TypeScript / JavaScript
Go
SQL
COBOL
Tools & Technologies
Vim / NeoVim / OpenCode
VS Code
Git / Linux
Redis / etcd
Data & Databases
Data Warehousing / ETL
Microsoft SQL Server
Analysis Services / BI
Greenplum
Professional
Solution Architecture
Project Management
Team Leadership / Agile
Business Analysis
Software Documentation
Recommendations

“Aaron has an eye for operational excellence while retaining a focus on keeping skills up to date… A thought leader in the DevOps space that I’d jump at the chance to work with again.”

– Rory Savage, SRE & DevOps Engineer