Anuj Toshniwal
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnuj Toshniwal is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building backend systems for cloud and commerce platforms, most recently at Bloomberg after contributing to Azure teams in Redmond and Bengaluru. He helped modernize Microsoft’s Commercial Marketplace and managed subscription, provisioning, and billing workflows before moving to Azure Cosmos DB to tackle data-intensive challenges. Anuj has a strong research foundation from IIIT‑Hyderabad (BTech + MS by Research) and prior work spanning distributed systems, databases, AI, and multi-agent simulations. He’s an active contributor to the popular azure-cosmos-dotnet-v3 SDK, adding client-side encryption support and robust decryption for queries and transactional batches to strengthen data security. Comfortable across languages and distributed architectures, he combines production-grade engineering with a research-minded approach to solving performance and correctness problems. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and drawn to projects that close revenue and reliability gaps at scale.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Degree (BTech and MS by Research), Computer Science, Dual Degree (BTech and MS by Research), Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Github Skills (15)
azure-cosmos-db10
crypt10
unit-testing10
net10
asp-net10
test-integration10
encrypt10
dotnet10
csharp10
test-unit10
unit-test10
encryption10
dotnet-core10
integration-testing10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cosmos-dotnet-v3
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
.NET SDK for Azure Cosmos DB for the core SQL API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 417 reviews, 75 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Anuj contributed to the .NET SDK for Azure Cosmos DB, focusing on client-side encryption features. Their primary contribution involved implementing decryption of encrypted properties for query results and transactional batch requests, enhancing data security within the SDK. The user refactored code, added tests, and handled various response scenarios to ensure correct decryption behavior in different query types, binary formats, and data encryption key scenarios. They also addressed comments and performed minor code refinements throughout the process.
apidotnetazure-cosmos-dbcosmos-dbsql
anujtoshniwal/azure-rest-api-specs
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 2 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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