Open for roles & select consulting

I'm Victoria Essien.

Software Engineer with a designer's eye and a product manager's instincts.

I ship features end-to-end: API to pixel, plus the messy parts in between. Currently at Baza Analytics, building AI-powered analytics infrastructure.

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About

About Me

I'm a full-stack engineer shipping production software across Next.js/React (TypeScript) on the frontend and FastAPI/Python on the backend. I work end-to-end: API design, schema work, UI, performance, and the production bugs nobody wants to debug.

At Baza Analytics, I'm building an AI-powered analytics platform: multi-tenant auth, secure credential storage on GCP Secret Manager, role-based access control, streaming AI query pipelines, and five different ways for users to connect their data and query it through our AI agent. When something breaks in production, whether it's auth race conditions, RLS failures, LLM agent loops, or streaming errors, I'm usually the one debugging it.

Before Baza, I led delivery at Tison (sprint planning, code reviews, client-facing) and shipped UI at DirectEd Development. My background started in design, which is why my frontend looks designed instead of assembled, and why I'm comfortable making product calls, not just executing tickets.

Open to engineering roles, product engineering roles, and select consulting work.

Work

Selected Projects

Contract Lens

Contract Lens

AI contract review for non-lawyers. Upload a contract and get severity-rated red flags, verbatim citations, jurisdiction-aware checks, and a downloadable counter-proposal. Streaming keeps perceived latency under a second.

Next.js 15 · React 19 · LLM streaming · Tailwind v4 · pdf-lib · mammoth

Mockr

Mockr

AI interview practice with structured feedback. JD-targeted or general mode, voice or typed answers, four-axis scoring rubric. Question prefetching keeps the next question instant. No waiting after feedback.

Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · LLM API · unpdf

Capabilities

What I Bring

Full-Stack Product Engineering

Next.js, React, TypeScript on the frontend. FastAPI, Python, PostgreSQL on the backend. I own features from API design to pixel polish, including the production debugging when things break.

AI-Native Product Work

Shipping LLM-powered features that hold up in production: streaming, structured outputs, agent reliability, prompt restructuring. I've built and debugged the loops, hallucinations, and edge cases you don't see in tutorials.

Product & UX Advisory

Advisory only. Limited availability for teams who want a second opinion on UX flows, product decisions, or technical-product tradeoffs. I don't take on UI/UX as a build deliverable anymore.

Voices

What People Say About Working With Me

Victoria is a highly skilled front-end developer, combining creativity and technical expertise. She excels in designing visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces, as demonstrated during our collaboration on an AI SaaS project. Her keen design eye and innovative approach make her a valuable team member.

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Samuel N. Theophilus

AI Engineer, The Nnitiwe Hub

Get in touch

Looking for an engineer who can own the whole thing?

I'm currently open to engineering roles, product engineering roles, and select consulting work. If your team needs someone who can ship across the stack and make product calls, let's talk.

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