Summary
Valerie Osei is a Frontend Software Engineer with eight years of experience building polished, accessible web experiences using React, Next.js, Gatsby, TypeScript, GraphQL and headless CMS like Contentful. She currently contributes to brand sites at Spin Master and runs a freelance full‑stack practice helping small businesses with WordPress, Shopify and modern React stacks. Comfortable across frontend and lightweight backend work, she champions test‑driven development and has implemented accessibility and testing pipelines in production projects. Bilingual in English and French, Valerie brings strong communication and customer-facing experience from earlier roles in service and education, which helps her translate stakeholder needs into usable UI. She thrives on learning new tools and UX patterns, pairing design sensibility with pragmatic engineering to deliver reusable component libraries and scalable UIs. Notably, she combines agency and in‑house experience—from rapid freelance builds to contributing to enterprise brand sites—making her effective across project scopes and team structures.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
French Certificate French as a Second Language, French Certificate French as a Second Language at Maple High School
Full Stack Web Development Web Development/ Programming, Full Stack Web Development Web Development/ Programming at General Assembly Canada
Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Distinction Political Science and French Language/Literature, Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Distinction Political Science and French Language/Literature at University of Toronto Mississauga
English, French, html, javascript, css3