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title: "Prabhakar Bhaskaran - Principal Architect in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Prabhakar Bhaskaran, Engineering Leader | Database Reliability Engineering | Azure SQL | Leading 5M+ Database Platform at Microsoft based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code and github copilot."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/prabhakaran-bhaskaran/share-image"
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# Prabhakar Bhaskaran on Tal

## 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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