Prabhakaran Sethuraman
Principal Group Engineering Manager @ Microsoft | Commerce Platform Leader
- Role
- Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Prabhakaran Sethuraman
Experienced Engineering leader with 20+ years experience and led high performing teams building innovative high-scale online services, machine learning, and data platform solutions. Driving key technical innovations with direct measurable business value, building a motivated team with focus on technical deliverables and experience in taking products from incubation to v1 and in managing products across multiple versions. Fine blend of engineering, technology, innovation and people leadership to build role model engineering teams and drive digital transformation. Execution leadership spanning teams across different Geos (Redmond & India) including vendor teams.
Experience
Principal Group Engineering Manager
Jul 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
COVE — AI-Driven Commerce Validation Engine at Scale | MicrosoftBuilding and leading COVE, an AI-powered validation and reasoning platform that governs Microsoft\'s entire commercial product catalog. Designed a natural language (CLI-Common Language Interface) rule authoring framework (CBRL) that enables non-technical stakeholders to write validation rules in a plain english— which AI then translates into executable Logic. The platform\'s Reasoning Engine provides explainable failure analysis, replacing opaque rule engines with transparent, AI-driven critique and feedback loops. Supports real-time parallel validation across Azure clouds.
Education
Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Kancheepuram
Doctorate in Computer Science (PhD), Computer Science
2008 — 2014
Bharathidasan University (BDU), Tiruchirappalli
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science
1994 — 1997
Bharathidasan University (BDU), Tiruchirappalli
Master's degree in Computer Science (M.Sc.,), Computer Science
1997 — 1999
Periyar University
M.Phil. in Computer Science (Research), Computer Science
2003 — 2004
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