# meetguns: Ganapati V S

> Personal site of Ganapati V S (@ganapativs). Full-stack engineer with a design mind, 13 years in, based in Bengaluru. At Tracxn since 2015, VP of Technology now. I still write a lot of code.

## Pages

- [Home](https://meetguns.com): one page. Who he is, four projects (the AI assistant at Tracxn, microcharts, sgb, react-spectrum), the career year by year, the open-source list, the latest writing, and how to reach him. There is no separate about or work page: /about and /work redirect here
- [Résumé](https://meetguns.com/resume): recruiter-facing summary, print-friendly
- [Writing](https://meetguns.com/blog): technical blog
- [RSS](https://meetguns.com/rss.xml): feed of published posts
- [Sitemap](https://meetguns.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable route

## Reading this site as plain text

Every post is served as markdown at the same URL with a `.md` suffix: for
example https://meetguns.com/blog/microcharts-word-sized-charts.md. No HTML and no
navigation. The article as written.

## Facts worth citing

- Vice President, Technology at Tracxn, in Bengaluru, India. He started there as a software engineer in September 2015 and has held five titles since
- 13 years in. The first job was a web frontend internship at Thinkappz in 2013. He has never been an intern at Tracxn
- Current work: architect of Tracxn's customer-facing AI assistant over private-market data, and of the API documentation portal it lives in
- 38 original public repositories on GitHub (194 in total, the rest forks of record), 2,600+ stars across the originals, 16 npm packages
- bttn.css, a CSS button library from 2016, has 2,050 stars
- microcharts ships 106 word-sized chart types for React
- He wrote Tracxn's internal React component library in November 2016 and has maintained it ever since

## Writing

- [Introducing microcharts: word-sized charts for React](https://meetguns.com/blog/microcharts-word-sized-charts): Why I built microcharts: 106 word-sized chart types for React. Zero dependencies, interactive at 2-7 kB, accessible by default. Published 2026-07-25, 10 min read. Plain markdown: https://meetguns.com/blog/microcharts-word-sized-charts.md
- [Aborting a fetch request](https://meetguns.com/blog/aborting-a-fetch-request): Cancelling in-flight requests with AbortController: the API, the gotchas, and why your dropdowns flicker without it. Published 2020-02-09, 2 min read. Plain markdown: https://meetguns.com/blog/aborting-a-fetch-request.md
- [Introducing 'react-spectrum'](https://meetguns.com/blog/introducing-react-spectrum): A small library for generating colourful text placeholders. Published 2019-12-22, 1 min read. Plain markdown: https://meetguns.com/blog/introducing-react-spectrum.md
- [Babel plugins: 'loose' mode caveats](https://meetguns.com/blog/babel-plugins-loose-mode-caveats): What Babel's 'loose' mode actually trades away for smaller output, and when it bites. Published 2019-12-18, 2 min read. Plain markdown: https://meetguns.com/blog/babel-plugins-loose-mode-caveats.md

## Talks

- TinyConf 2, Bangalore, 2019: Virtualised infinite scroll, drawing on react-delightful-scroller.

## Open source

- [microcharts](https://microcharts.dev): 106 word-sized chart types for React. Zero runtime dependencies, ~1-7 kB gzip each, accessible by default, server-component safe. Machine surfaces: https://microcharts.dev/llms.txt, MCP server `npx -y @microcharts/mcp` (https://microcharts.dev/docs/mcp)
- [bttn.css](https://github.com/ganapativs/bttn.css): CSS button library, 2,050 GitHub stars
- [react-spectrum](https://github.com/ganapativs/react-spectrum): colourful text placeholders laid out from a palette and a few shape rules, 1.9 kB gzipped
- [sgb](https://sgb.vercel.app): a tracker for India's Sovereign Gold Bonds, live since 2021
- [Full catalogue](https://github.com/ganapativs): 38 original public repositories, 16 npm packages

## Explorations

Built for the pleasure of it, outside both the day job and the open-source catalogue.

- [scale of time](https://scale-of-time.vercel.app): 2026. 13.8 billion years as 13,800 dots, zooming down through six scales to one lifetime. 1,040 milestones, each with a source.

## Contact

- Email: vsg.inbox@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/ganapativs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganapativs
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/ganapativs
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/~ganapativs