Norton Andreev

Senior Product Engineer

I build accessible, frontend-focused web and desktop products for enterprise SaaS, fintech, developer tools, and AI-native software. My strengths are product thinking, UX, and end-to-end ownership.

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Highlights

Couchbase Capella Award-Winning SaaS Best Cloud Data Management Solution 2023–⁠24. Helped rebuild the multi-⁠cloud database platform’s interface from React to Svelte, alongside a redesigned, simpler developer experience.
BWRE Capital €3.5M Bond Platform Built the complete frontend for a regulated, tokenised bond platform. The offering sold out in under two hours, with secondary trading on the NPEX exchange.
University of Sheffield Mappin Medal First Class Honours in Software Engineering, with a dissertation grade of 96%. One of 10 awarded in the Faculty of Engineering for greatest distinction. QS top-⁠100 university (82nd, 2026).

kcap desktop workspace showing agent conversations, a project plan, and work context with synthetic demo data

Shaped kcap’s AI-native developer experience across desktop and web. Combined end-to-end product engineering and interaction design to turn feedback into shipped workflows.

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Built resumable desktop onboarding for sign-in, workspace creation, agent connections, privacy, and history import, supporting existing CLI setups.
Organised desktop navigation around repository-grouped sessions, work items, plans, and integrated PR review, keeping implementation context together.
Built human-in-the-loop controls for questions, queued prompts, interruption, and delivery recovery, with clear working, waiting, and unresolved states.
Redesigned web administration and profile-scoped settings with guided setup, evaluation editors, and explicit privacy, recording, and integration controls.
Established design-system patterns for hierarchy, semantic status colors, accessible contrast, and keyboard interaction, aligning desktop, installer, and marketing branding.
Improved UI performance through stable loading states, responsive session switching, predictable scrolling, and recovery that preserves context during connection failures.
Improved marketing and documentation with consistent social previews, stable fonts, and structured content for search and AI answer engines.

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Played a major role in migrating Kurrent Navigator from legacy StencilJS to an Electron desktop app built with Svelte 5 and SvelteKit. It’s available on macOS, Linux (Flathub(opens in a new tab)), and Windows.

Built a type-safe client–server data layer with SvelteKit Remote Functions for loading and updating cluster statistics, connectors, and stream data.
Led the Connectors management interface end-to-end, built on a dynamic, easily extensible form system with custom interactive inputs.
Built complex, desktop-grade UI components, including resizable data tables with virtualised rendering for large datasets.
Modernised the Navigator interface during the migration, replacing legacy components and aligning layouts, spacing, and visual patterns with the Svelte design system.
Delivered operational safeguards including role-based access control, production-environment warnings, resilient error recovery, and quorum-aware cluster shutdown and failover controls.

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Played a key role in the React-to-Svelte rebuild of Couchbase Capella’s interface. The rebuild delivered a simpler, redesigned developer experience for the award-winning multi-cloud DBaaS.

Drove UI consistency across Capella’s modules, working closely with product and UX to challenge, refine, and shape designs.
Enhanced replication capabilities and Single Sign-On workflows for enterprise deployments.
Delivered Private Link and App Services experiences across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Built Data Tools interfaces for working with data inside the platform, contributing to the product recognised as Best Cloud Data Management Solution 2023–24.

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Shaped much of the day-to-day product planning for Dusk Web Wallet and shipped it through its 1.0 launch and open-source release. Also delivered bridge, migration, validation, staking, and rewards workflows.

This case study reflects the version shipped during my time on the team. The live product has since been updated.

Created most delivery tickets for the three-to-four-person Web Wallet and Explorer team. Set priorities from internal feedback, technical needs, and community input on GitHub and Discord.
Shipped the 1.0 and open-source releases, including dark mode, automatic synchronisation, and w3sper.js integration.
Modernised the application foundation through SvelteKit 2 and Vite 5 upgrades.
Built EVM bridge and ERC-20/BEP-20 migration flows with Reown AppKit and Wagmi, including third-party wallet connections, transaction validation, chain switching, and approve/migrate steppers.
Shaped consistent interaction patterns across bridge, migration, validation, and core account journeys.
Developed staking features including partial unstaking, partial reward claiming, and multi-profile account switching.

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Helped rebuild and launch Dusk Explorer, delivering blockchain insights through a responsive interface with sub-800 ms load times.

This case study reflects the version shipped during my time on the team. The live product has since been updated.

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Through Nortware, I independently led the Locking System Configurator, from stakeholder discovery and iterative Figma prototypes through to SvelteKit delivery, localisation, and a reusable component system.

Built the complete frontend for BWRE Capital’s regulated, tokenised bond investment platform. The €3.5 million offering for qualified investors sold out in under two hours, with secondary-market liquidity through the NPEX stock exchange.

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Played a major role in modernising Kurrent’s design system, moving legacy StencilJS components to @kurrent-ui/kit, the shared Svelte 5 library used across Kurrent’s products. The UI Kit, playground, and handbook remain internal to Kurrent engineering teams.

Reviewed and annotated frontend code submissions to support the training and evaluation of AI-driven code agents.

Nortware

I founded Nortware in 2023 to deliver my client work. It offers senior product engineering for startups and enterprise teams, as focused contracts or ongoing fractional partnerships.

Engagements cover complex web and desktop products, shared design systems, and accessible component libraries. I lead independently or embed with established teams, and mentor junior developers along the way. I shape each engagement around the product, delivery stage, and team.

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Education

Mappin Medal, one of 10 awarded in the Faculty of Engineering for greatest distinction, among 944 BEng and MEng graduates in the summer cohort. I earned a First Class BEng in Software Engineering with a Year in Industry (2021) from the University of Sheffield, a QS top-100 university(opens in a new tab) ranked 82nd globally in 2026. My dissertation, ClimaFever, a hay fever management and allergy research platform, received a grade of 96%.

I spent the penultimate year as a firmware engineer at GE Aerospace on safety-critical systems. In my final year, I was a Computer Science demonstrator in practical classes. I was also named an Outstanding Mentor for mentoring first-year Computer Science students.

Built ClimaFever, a SwiftUI iOS app and Ruby on Rails research platform, and evaluated the working prototype through TestFlight. At the time, it was the first platform to combine quantitative hay fever research with consumer self-management. It offered year-round, postcode-level pollen counts, numeric pollen concentrations, personalised health risk, ResearchKit surveys, and regional data export.

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Year-long firmware engineering placement on the Boeing 777X, spanning C#/.NET test automation, compiler performance, and WPF tooling in a safety-critical environment.

Taking on select projects