Toni Esan
thinking
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artisting
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engineering
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marketing
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Selected work
Machine learning, computer vision, autonomous systems, software engineering
June 2024 – Present
CV platform for automated dental X-ray diagnosis deployed into NHS beta clinics. Led dataset curation, beta testing, and bridged engineers with clinical end users.
~27% early adoption across NHS beta clinics
Feb 2025
Automated pipeline classifying thousands of media day football photos into 16 pose categories. YOLO + transformers on Amazon SageMaker with GPU instances.
2024
DQN and PPO agents on OpenAI Gymnasium CarRacing. MDP formulation, 4-frame stacking, auxiliary sensor features. GPU-accelerated on MacBook Metal.
2024
FCN, CNN, and ResNet50V2 transfer learning on CIFAR-10. YOLOv8n vs Faster R-CNN for UAV detection with mAP/IoU benchmarking.
2023–2024
Bespoke RAG pipeline automating PDF-to-CSV extraction and LLM-based retrieval for a sales team. Cut manual processing overhead significantly.
2024
Satellite imagery + API metadata + LLM-generated narratives for computer vision dataset construction. Contributed to a published research project.
Product design, visual identity, MagKits, cinema
Dec 2022 – Present
MagSafe wallet brand built around football clubs. Full stack: product design in Blender & Photoshop, Shopify store, supply chain, social content. Founded & bootstrapped.
500k+ followers grown for a client within 2 years
2021
Physical smart speaker embodying the Fitbod brand. Full CAD in SolidWorks, 3D-printed prototype, and KeyShot studio renders. 1st class result.
2022 – Present
Vue.js interactive sites with dynamic animations and Shopify integrations for e-commerce clients. From brief to live, fast.
Ongoing
Obsessive film watcher. From A24 to Nollywood. Logging, ranking, and occasionally over-analysing on Letterboxd.
→ letterboxd ↗
Product design, CAD, simulations, autonomous systems, hardware
2021
Technical comparison of Pure Electric vs Xiaoming — battery architecture, voltage sag under load, performance analysis in MATLAB/Simulink.
2016
Insulated blood transport box for East Africa's heat constraints. Thermodynamic simulation and CAD. Built at Imperial College London.
2019
Trained a Navya AV on urban routes using Xbox controller inputs. Gathered structured public feedback on AV perception in a live city environment.
2024
Leader-follower temperature control with QPSK wireless comms, XOR encryption, and FPGA-ready HDL implementation in MATLAB/Simulink.
2021
Sensor and laser-based automatic derailleur system optimising gear shifts for road cyclists under variable terrain and speed.
Business development, social strategy, events operations, client consulting
Dec 2022 – Present
Self-employed. AI-assisted web builds, Shopify stores, VBA automation scripts, and workflow optimisation for SME clients across London.
Jan 2024 – Present
Excel dashboards cutting spend ~15%. QR registration system deployed across 300+ client events, cutting check-in time by ~20%.
~15% spend reduction · ~20% faster check-in · 300+ events
2022 – Present
Strategy, content creation, and campaign management growing a client's presence from 0 to 500k+ followers in 2 years across platforms.
500k+ followers in 2 years
June 2024 – Present
Merged market research with technical feasibility to shape product use-cases. Bridged engineer-to-clinician communication. Competitor analysis.
Built with AI
Designed and built in a single session with Claude Code. Layout, dot-matrix nav animations, content — all from a PDF brief.
PDF extraction pipeline and LLM retrieval system for a sales team. Claude for architecture planning, GPT for the retrieval layer.
LLM-generated narrative descriptions for satellite imagery datasets, enabling richer multimodal dataset construction for CV research.
Excel dashboards and automation workflows for Santander HQ — resource tracking, event registration, and reporting, built fast.
AI-assisted Liquid theme customisation and product page generation. Dramatically faster iteration cycles for e-commerce clients.
Half marathon training tools, gym CV apps, location memory maps, Spotify memory layers… ideas are cheap, shipping is the work.
Services
01
LLM pipelines, document automation, custom RAG systems, and workflow tooling that actually gets used.
02
Fast, clean web presences and e-commerce stores. Vue/React frontends, Shopify Liquid, deployed on Vercel. Brief to live in days.
03
YOLO-based detection, classification pipelines, dataset curation, and deployment. From proof-of-concept to something demoable.
04
Content strategy, brand positioning, and growth systems. Proven track record scaling accounts to 500k+ followers.
About
I'm Toni Esan — based in London. I sit at the intersection of engineering rigour, AI application, and creative product thinking. Not a pure researcher, not a pure developer — someone who builds things that bridge disciplines and solves real problems with taste.
Currently finishing an MSc in Applied AI at Cranfield (Distinction, September 2025) while working as Technical Officer at Leveret AI — a CV startup bringing AI diagnostics to NHS dental clinics. Before that: Design Engineering at Aston (1st class).
I've trained autonomous vehicles, grown social accounts to half a million followers, and built dental AI products used in real clinics. I wear a lot of hats — literally.
BSL, conversational Spanish and Yoruba, basic Arabic. Currently training for a half marathon — running is the thinking time.
Blog
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Cool news, half-formed thoughts, film takes, tech rabbit holes. Currently living in Twitter bookmarks @tonzownz.
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