# Ajit Bhate > Principal Software Development Engineer at Yahoo! Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ajit Principle Software engineer with 15+ years of experience in Scala, Java, J2EE Web Services and platform software. Team leader, player and experience with remote teams. Specialties: Java, Scala, J2EE, Web Services, XML, BigData, Database, MySQL, Cassandra, SaaS, PaaS, JavaScript, AngularJS, CSS, AWS, GCP ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Yahoo Jan 2021 – Present ### Principal Software Development Engineer @ Verizon Media Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Software Engineer @ Oath Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area video platform, web services, full stack development ### Principal Software Engineer @ AOL Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Software Engineer @ Verizon Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, California Video Platform - Web Services and Full stack Developer ### Principal Software Engineer @ Motorola, Sunnyvale Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 Tech Lead Moto Care (Motorola Customer Care) Diagnostics and analytics portal for Motorola Customer Care to help resolve customer issues. BigData for device data collection, storage and pre-processing. Platform - Cloud based solution (Google Stack and VM based to support multiple on Geos) Technologies - Java, Spring, Hibernate, RBAC, AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Google Visualization, RESTful WS, CAS, SAML • Optimized cost, efficiency and reliability by preparing, preprocessing and preloading the diagnostic and statistical information for consumer devices. Response time improvements of over 400% and cost reduction by half • Improved problem detection by developing diagnostics algorithms based on device context or population • Reduced the return rates by over 15%, by providing web portal for agents to solve consumer issues and avoid device replacements • Improved agent throughput by highlighting the problems as well as by providing in-depth statistical information about consumer device ### Senior Software Engineer @ Sun Microsystems Jan 2000 – Jan 2010 ## Education ### MS in Computer Engineering Clemson University ### BS in Computer Technology University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ajitbhate --- Source: https://flows.cv/ajit JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ajit/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12