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Prabhakar Bhaskaran

Engineering Leader | Database Reliability Engineering | Azure SQL | Leading 5M+ Database Platform at Microsoft

Bengaluru

16+ years of work experience

Microsoft
Mar 20242 yrs 6 mosPresent

Remote

Leading the team who manages the 5 Million Databases in Azure SQL which serves as backend for Dynamics CRM, FinOps, PowerApps. In my role as an Principal Engineer, I work on ensuring databases stay: ✅ reliable under scale ✅ stable under load ✅ cost-efficient ✅ easy to operate through automation From incident response → root cause → permanent fixes → automation… I love the full cycle.
Microsoft
May 20215 yrs 4 mosPresent

Working as a Senior Software Engineer for Dynamics CRM Common Data Platform team which serves as the data platform of Dynamics CRM Online Organization.
Angel Broking
Aug 202010 mosMay 2021

Reliability Database Engineer Lead and Manager
Pythian
Jan 20137 yrs 8 mosAug 2020

Bangalore

SQL Server Consultant
Microsoft
Jul 20102 yrs 7 mosJan 2013

Supported complex issues for Global Customers
IBM
Nov 20098 mosJun 2010

production support DBA

Prabhakar’s AI Stack

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Education

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

Anna University Chennai

20014 yrs2005

St.Mary's Hr.Sec.School, Madurai

19965 yrs2001

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Headline

Engineering Leader | Database Reliability Engineering | Azure SQL | Leading 5M+ Database Platform at Microsoft

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

github copilot

Work experience

Principal Architect at Microsoft, Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Remote, Leading the team who manages the 5 Million Databases in Azure SQL which serves as backend for Dynamics CRM, FinOps, PowerApps. In my role as an Principal Engineer, I work on ensuring databases stay: ✅ reliable under scale ✅ stable under load ✅ cost-efficient ✅ easy to operate through automation From incident response → root cause → permanent fixes → automation… I love the full cycle.

Senior Architect at Microsoft, May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos, Working as a Senior Software Engineer for Dynamics CRM Common Data Platform team which serves as the data platform of Dynamics CRM Online Organization.

Assistant Vice President - Lead DB Reliability Engineering at Angel Broking, Aug 2020 - May 2021 · 10 mos, Reliability Database Engineer Lead and Manager

Senior Database Consultant at Pythian, Jan 2013 - Aug 2020 · 7 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore, SQL Server Consultant

Product Support Engineer at Microsoft, Jul 2010 - Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Supported complex issues for Global Customers

SQL Server DBA at IBM, Nov 2009 - Jun 2010 · 8 mos, production support DBA

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Anna University Chennai

St.Mary's Hr.Sec.School, Madurai

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