Prakasam Sellappan
AI adoption strategist and pioneer of enterprise-scale agentic AI orchestration systems, driving multi-agent workflows for autonomous planning, development, testing, and code review through structured frameworks and governance of AI initiatives. Results-driven Senior Director of Engineering with 27+ years building high-performing global teams and scaling SaaS products across EdTech, Life Sciences & Healthcare, CRM, and Public Safety & Services domains — including establishing two greenfield Capability Centers focused on engineering capability, team structure, and ownership models.
Led product transformations generating $87M+ in ARR while maintaining a 97% customer retention rate, backed by deep technical expertise across monolithic architecture, distributed systems, microservices, reliability engineering, and AI integration. Beyond technology, spearheaded Power School's CSR strategy, partnering with NGOs to strengthen government school infrastructure and drive measurable gains in enrollment and student outcomes.
Experience
Senior Director
PowerSchool
Bangalore, India
Led India GCC engineering for 4 products ($28M–$87M ARR over 7 years). Managed 50+ engineers across Chennai and Bangalore, owning product architecture, team development, platform reliability, and AI strategy. Architected and deployed an enterprise multi-agent orchestration system for planning, implementation, testing, code review, and QA agents on a 70,000-file legacy monolith. Designed a three-layer AI debug system and autonomous Debug Agent for production incidents, reducing manual triage effort and accelerating resolution.
Drove AI adoption and governance, standardized AI coding tools, and trained engineers. Built Chennai GCC from a handful of engineers to 50+ across 4 teams. Defined SLOs (99.99% availability) and improved MTTR. Served on SDLC Council, Tool Evaluation Committee, and Engineering Metrics Committee.
Group Delivery Head
Aptean
Bangalore, India
Led . NET enterprise product delivery across Public Safety and Services domains (75+ engineers/QA), driving executive-level customer engagement and delivery governance across a $70M+ portfolio with high client satisfaction.
Associate Director
Jadoli Systems
Mysore, India
Helped establish the Mysore GCC from greenfield, building a 100+ engineering/QA/services organization delivering J2EE Life Science products across Safety and Clinical domains. Owned ISO/CMMI L3 quality processes and drove Agile/Scrum transformation. Contributed technical architecture and delivery solutioning to RFP/RFI efforts supporting $25M–$40M in business growth.
Program Manager
Consona
Bangalore, India
Delivered J2EE/. NET enterprise CRM software (~$40M portfolio) via Agile Scrum, managing onsite–offshore collaboration between Belarus and India across a 25-member team. Served as ISO/CMMI process expert, ensuring quality gates, process compliance, and NFR ownership.
Development Manager
ArisGlobal
Bangalore, India
Progressed from developer to Development Manager & Architect over 11 years, leading 75+ engineers/QA while architecting Java/C++ Life Sciences platforms (~$25M, safety, pharmacovigilance, and regulatory domains) for scalability, performance, and high availability. Owned NFR and ISO/CMMI L3 functional consulting, driving performance testing, security vulnerability assessments, secure coding standards, and technical training.
Travelled globally for critical customer troubleshooting and contributed technical depth to Sales RFP/RFI responses.
Education
Bharathidasan University
MCA
Master of Computer Applications from Bharathidasan University, Trichy.
Skills
AI LeadershipAgentic AI SystemsAI OrchestrationAI Adoption StrategyAI GovernanceR&D LeadershipGlobal Capability Center SetupHigh-Performance Team BuildingMulti-Product Portfolio LeadershipMicroservicesObservabilityDORAFlowJavaC#.NETTypeScriptReactPythonLangChainLangGraphAWSAzure