Anil Channa — 20+ Years
Building on Microsoft .NET
From writing his first .NET 1.1 console app in 2003 to leading a team of 15+ engineers on .NET 10 today — this is the story of two decades spent inside the Microsoft stack, through every framework, every breaking change, every greenfield product shipped, and every legacy system that needed saving.
Every Era of .NET, First-Hand
Anil didn't read about these frameworks in a textbook — he shipped production code in every single one of them.
First Steps — .NET Framework 1.0/1.1
Microsoft released .NET Framework 1.0 in February 2002, followed by 1.1 in April 2003. Anil was among the early adopters in India who saw it as the future of enterprise software. He spent evenings working through C# fundamentals, console apps, and Windows Forms — building muscle memory for a language that would define his career.
Full-Time .NET — Enterprise Projects Begin
With .NET 2.0 (Oct 2005) introducing generics and .NET 3.0 (Nov 2006) bringing WCF, WPF, and Windows Workflow Foundation, the platform matured rapidly. Anil made .NET his full-time profession — building data-driven desktop applications, business logic layers with ADO.NET, and Windows Services for enterprise clients.
ASP.NET WebForms, LINQ & Entity Framework
.NET 3.5 (Nov 2007) introduced LINQ and Entity Framework — transforming how developers queried data. Anil mastered ASP.NET WebForms, building complex multi-tier web applications for clients across retail, government, and logistics. He worked heavily with ASMX Web Services and WCF, connecting .NET backends to external systems.
WCF Mastery — MCTS Certification Achieved
With .NET 4.0 (Apr 2010) came the Managed Extensibility Framework, dynamic types, and parallel computing. Anil earned his Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification in WCF — validating deep expertise in service-oriented architecture, bindings, contracts, and distributed systems. He was building complex service meshes when microservices were still a blog post.
async/await, Web API & .NET Core 1.0
.NET 4.5–4.6 brought async/await and Web API. Then in June 2016, Microsoft launched .NET Core 1.0 — the cross-platform, open-source revolution. Anil embraced it early, migrating projects to .NET Core while maintaining legacy codebases for clients who weren't ready. This dual expertise — legacy fluency and modern capability — became Softwiz's core differentiator.
Softwiz Infotech — Turning Experience Into a Company
With .NET 5 (Nov 2020) unifying the platform and dropping the 'Core' branding, the modern era began. Anil founded Softwiz Infotech in 2021 after nearly two decades of hands-on .NET work. Today the team of 15+ engineers works across .NET 6 (LTS), .NET 8 (LTS), and .NET 10 (LTS) — covering legacy maintenance, modernisation, and greenfield development.
The AI Era — Embedding Intelligence into .NET
With .NET 10 (LTS, Nov 2025) shipping native AI primitives and Microsoft.Extensions.AI maturing, the team is embedding AI directly into client .NET applications — Azure OpenAI integrations, Semantic Kernel agents, retrieval-augmented generation over client data, and ML.NET inside existing codebases. The focus isn't just new AI apps; it's carefully upgrading 10-, 15-, even 20-year-old .NET systems to give them the AI capabilities users now expect.
Why Legacy Systems Deserve Respect
Legacy is Not Technical Debt
A system running in production for 10+ years has survived real-world chaos. That resilience deserves respect — and the right maintenance extends its life by another decade.
Depth Over Breadth
Softwiz doesn't do 50 different technologies. We do .NET, deeply — from Framework 1.1 to .NET 10. That focus is a deliberate choice.
You Speak to the Engineer
When you contact Softwiz, you talk directly to Anil or a senior team member — not an account manager who relays messages to a developer.
Building New or Maintaining Legacy? Anil Has Done Both.
Two decades of hands-on .NET — from shipping greenfield .NET 10 products today to stabilising systems first written in .NET 1.1. Whatever stack your project sits on, there's a good chance he's worked in it.