# Vikas Saini

> Full stack engineer who builds products end to end. Shipped work, writing and field notes from the road.

Personal site of Vikas Saini, a full stack engineer at Tars who builds
products end to end in TypeScript, React, Next.js and Node.js.
Contact: vikas289888@gmail.com

## Pages

- [Profile](https://vikas-saini.tech): Who I am, experience and selected work.
- [Work](https://vikas-saini.tech/work): Everything I've built; filter to [personal](https://vikas-saini.tech/work/personal) or [freelance](https://vikas-saini.tech/work/freelance).
- [Travel](https://vikas-saini.tech/travel): Photos and notes from 9 trips.
- [Writing](https://vikas-saini.tech/writing): Technical writing.

## Work

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## Writing

- [What Happens When You Type google.com?](https://vikas-saini.tech/writing/what-happens-when-you-type-google-com): The full path from pressing Enter to seeing pixels: DNS, TCP, TLS, the server, and the part most explanations skip, the browser's render pipeline. (2026-01-19, 7 min read)
- [Why shadcn/ui Became My Go-To After 3 Years](https://vikas-saini.tech/writing/shadcn-ui-experience): Why copying components into your own codebase beats installing a UI library, what it is actually good at, and where it costs you. (2026-01-16, 5 min read)

## Machine readable

- [Full site content](https://vikas-saini.tech/llms-full.txt): Every page and post as plain Markdown in one file.
- [RSS feed](https://vikas-saini.tech/feed.xml): Posts.
- [Sitemap](https://vikas-saini.tech/sitemap.xml): All indexable URLs.
- Any post is available as raw Markdown by appending `.md`, for example https://vikas-saini.tech/writing/what-happens-when-you-type-google-com.md