Bhaskar Chennavaram
Bhaskar Chennavaram

Principal Software Engineer / Architect

Actively looking · Member since 26 Oct 2026
Location
San Ramon, United States
Desired salary
Confidential
Work preference
Hybrid / Full Time, Contract
Experience level
Lead

About

Professional summary

I am a Principal Software Engineer and Architect with more than 20 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and production AI systems on the Java/JVM stack.

I own end-to-end technical delivery, from customer research and requirements through architecture, implementation, launch, and operations. I have led the LifeHub document-intelligence platform at Quicken, achieving approximately 95% extraction accuracy across more than 70 document types.

My expertise includes production LLM applications, agentic AI, RAG, MCP tools, AI evaluation, and cost optimization. I built synthetic evaluation and regression-testing capabilities that reduced AI operating costs by approximately 20%, saving about $30,000 per month.

I have extensive experience in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, microservices, and cloud migrations. I led a zero-downtime migration of more than 100 microservices serving approximately 3 million active users.

I am a hands-on technical leader who establishes architecture, security, code quality, and CI/CD standards. I mentor engineers, lead cross-functional initiatives, and build backend platforms used by web, mobile, and backend teams.

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34 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Experience

Career history

Principal Software Engineer / Architect Quicken, Inc.

Own the end-to-end LifeHub backend, including customer interviews, requirements, architecture, implementation, launch, and operations. Lead a team of four engineers delivering document intelligence for more than 70 document types.

Built production document intelligence using agentic AI, RAG, MCP tools, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Spring Boot, and Spring AI. Established AI-assisted development standards for Claude agent workflows, tool calling, MCP integrations, and agent-output evaluation.

Developed more than 20 core Java 17+ and Spring Boot backend services. Own AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes deployments, MySQL and PostgreSQL data stores, Jenkins CI/CD, and Datadog and CloudWatch monitoring and on-call operations.

Senior Staff Software Engineer Quicken, Inc.

Served as a founding engineer establishing independent backend infrastructure following a corporate separation. Delivered more than 15 foundational Java and Spring Boot REST services in one year, powering data synchronization for approximately 3 million users.

Architected offline-first distributed synchronization across cloud, desktop, and mobile clients. Designed conflict-resolution and server-side reconciliation capabilities for reliable multi-client data synchronization.

Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer / Senior Software Engineer Robert Half

Led the Platform Team as Engineering Manager, responsible for enterprise data warehouse, ETL pipelines, reporting, and an AWS EMR/S3 data lake.

Led a production-stack migration to AWS as Principal Engineer. Built more than 20 Java REST and SOAP services supporting enterprise platform capabilities.

Education

Learning history

NITK

Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Applications

Master of Computer Applications degree completed at NITK in Karnataka, India.

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