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Vikas Saini

Vikas Saini

Full stack engineer at Tars. I build products end to end.

About

I'm a full stack engineer at Tars.

Before that I freelanced, building 7+ production apps for clients, and interned at LifeiDesign and MyTribe. I like building products for scale.

In my free time I like to travel, write and explore Linux.

Skills

  • TypeScript
  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • TanStack Query
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Convex
  • AWS
  • Vercel
  • Render
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Claude
  • Codex
  • T3 Code

Experience

  1. Mar 2026 - Present

    Full Stack Engineer, Tars

    Ship customer-facing features end to end across frontend, backend, AI integration and Livechat. Own the website; cut blog and case-study load time by ~55%.

  2. May 2025 - Dec 2025

    Full Stack Engineer, Freelance

    Built and shipped 7+ production apps, including an NFT community platform for a 25k+ member community with role-based dashboards and admin panels.

  3. Jan 2025 - Apr 2025

    SDE Intern, LifeiDesign

    Designed stateless APIs with Redis caching and role-based services; implemented RBAC across user roles.

  4. Jul 2024 - Dec 2024

    Web Developer Intern, MyTribe

    Migrated the app from React to Next.js with SSR, improving initial load by 30% and SEO for community event pages.

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Writing

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  1. 7 min readWhat 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.
  2. 5 min readWhy shadcn/ui Became My Go-To After 3 YearsWhy copying components into your own codebase beats installing a UI library, what it is actually good at, and where it costs you.

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