About Me

Front-End Engineer and Product Designer blending strong technical execution with UX research, prototyping, and product strategy to build performant, accessible applications. I specialize in designing and shipping B2B and B2C digital products that drive measurable business impact — from privacy-focused blockchain platforms to enterprise cloud infrastructure.

Norton Andreev

Selected Work

A selection of client projects and professional roles across AI, privacy technology, SaaS, and blockchain. Each engagement emphasizes performant design, measurable business impact, and cross-functional collaboration.

Kurrent UI Kit and UI Handbook

Kurrent UI Kit & Handbook

Kurrent — January 2026 - Present
Design System Migration Svelte 5 Accessibility UX Guidelines Documentation

Contributed to Kurrent's migration from the legacy Stencil design system to @kurrent-ui/kit — a shared Svelte 5 library powering core application interfaces. Initiated the development of the UI Handbook, establishing a team-wide standard for UX patterns and coding guidelines.

  • Ported and redesigned legacy Stencil components to Svelte 5, prioritizing WCAG accessibility compliance, proper keyboard navigation, and focus-trapping behaviors.
  • Developed advanced layout and input controls, including custom card-selection fields, transition-safe layout grid systems, and responsive data tables for queue and cluster administration dashboards.
  • Created interactive preview tools for the design system's playground, enabling developers to search and inspect design tokens, theme colors, and icons in real time.
  • Initiated and built the team's UI Handbook as an Astro-based Starlight site, defining canonical guidelines for layout spacing, destructive-action safeguards, and product copywriting.

AI Training Engineer (Code Quality)

Magic — August 2025 - November 2025
Code Review Svelte Modern JavaScript Evaluation & Calibration Annotation Workflows

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

  • Reviewed and annotated submissions with a focus on Svelte and modern JavaScript frameworks.
  • Identified bugs, architectural issues, and quality improvements through detailed, standardized code review annotations.
  • Collaborated on calibration and workflow optimizations to ensure consistent evaluation standards and high signal quality within a transparent, async, and distributed environment.
Locking System Configurator

Locking System Configurator

Sicherheitstechnik Nord (Meesenburg GmbH) — January 2025 - June 2025
Product Design UX Architecture Stakeholder Collaboration E-commerce Strategy

Designed and delivered the complete frontend architecture and user experience for a complex locking system configurator as part of a major e-commerce redesign.

  • Built a custom design system ensuring visual and interaction consistency across components — now adopted by the wider engineering team.
  • Delivered a fully localized, WCAG-compliant experience in English and German with contextual in-app help guidance system.
  • Partnered with stakeholders to refine configurator design through iterative feedback cycles, ensuring practical alignment with business workflows.

Developed with SvelteKit, emphasizing responsiveness and modularity. The design system established becomes a core reference for the platform's frontend development.

Dusk Web Wallet

Dusk Web Wallet

Dusk — October 2023 - June 2025
Product Lifecycle Feature Development User Experience Go-to-Market Strategy

Contributed significantly to the development and maturation of Dusk's Web Wallet, a critical privacy-focused tool for the Dusk ecosystem, from advanced development through robust 1.0 release and subsequent feature enhancements.

  • Implemented core features including dark mode support, auto-sync mechanisms, and w3sper.js integration for improved usability and reliability.
  • Led platform modernization with SvelteKit 2 and Vite 5 upgrades, ensuring long-term performance and maintainability.
  • Developed partial unstaking, reward claiming, and multi-profile account switching capabilities to enhance user asset management.
  • Supported transition to open-source model, enabling community-driven feature development and improved product transparency.
Dusk Block Explorer

Dusk Explorer

Dusk — October 2024 - June 2025
Data-Driven UX Performance & UX Feature Prioritization User-Centric Design

Played a pivotal role in the development and launch of the new Dusk Block Explorer, delivering real-time blockchain insights through a performant, responsive interface. Achieved sub-800 ms load times through performance optimization.

  • Developed Account and Provisioners pages providing detailed views of balances, transaction histories, staking details, and rewards.
  • Delivered critical performance enhancements by re-architecting transaction data retrieval — transitioning to parallel API execution and consolidating into optimized GraphQL queries.
  • Enhanced data visibility with stake maturity information, transaction nonce data, and transfer direction indicators.
  • Improved user convenience with features like copy-to-clipboard and streamlined navigation patterns.
BWRE Capital – Bonds – Portfolio Page

BWRE Capital Bond Investment Platform

BWRE Capital — May - June 2024
FinTech Product Regulatory Compliance Go-to-Market Execution MVP Development

Developed the complete frontend for BWRE Capital's tokenized bond investment platform. The €3.5 million offering, exclusive to qualified investors, was oversubscribed and sold out in under two hours, with secondary-market liquidity provided through the NPEX stock exchange.

  • Built frontend architecture integrating DUSK token holdings, through which BWRE offered higher bond yields to token holders — bringing DeFi-style returns to a regulated asset.
  • Implemented compliant KYC/AML flows via Onfido integration and seamless third-party wallet connectivity using web3modal.
  • Designed intuitive Portfolio page providing clear visibility of bond investments and generated yields.
  • Delivered under tight timeline while ensuring scalability for easy expansion of future bond offerings.
Couchbase Capella

Couchbase Capella

Couchbase — June 2022 - September 2023
Product-Led Growth Enterprise SaaS Multi-Cloud Strategy Cross-functional Leadership

Played a key role in Capella's evolution, delivering award-winning innovations that drove significant business growth—23% YoY revenue increase to $142.9M in fiscal 2023, recognized as Best Cloud Data Management Solution 2023-2024.

  • Led strategic technology migration — React to Svelte transition — enhancing performance and developer experience while maintaining visual consistency.
  • Implemented enhanced replication capabilities and improved Single Sign-On during a period of rapid platform growth that also saw the introduction of Capella iQ (AI coding assistant).
  • Expanded cloud infrastructure support across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including App Services and Private Link for enterprise deployments.
  • Collaborated with product and design teams to refine user workflows, contributing to platform maturity and adoption.

Education & Achievements

Graduated top of class — BEng Software Engineering, First Class Honours, University of Sheffield, awarded the Mappin Medal. Best dissertation in the cohortClimaFever, a dual-platform hay fever management and allergy research solution. Outstanding Mentor recognition for mentoring Computer Science students.

Early career experience includes firmware engineering on safety-critical aerospace projects and full-stack development mentoring at the University of Sheffield, providing comprehensive grounding in engineering discipline and product delivery.

ClimaFever

Dissertation Project

University of Sheffield — September 2020 - June 2021
Zero-to-One Product Market Research Dual-Platform Strategy Healthcare Tech

Comprehensive dual-platform solution addressing hay fever management and allergy research through postcode-precise environmental data — a market first at the time of launch.

  • iOS app (SwiftUI) delivering postcode-precise pollen counts, health risk assessments, air quality, weather data, and research-focused questionnaires powered by Ambee API and ResearchKit.
  • Ruby on Rails web application enabling researchers to manage participants, analyze data, and export findings in Excel format.
  • Integrated ResearchKit, a framework adopted by leading healthcare institutions including Stanford and Johns Hopkins Universities, enabling research-grade data collection.
G9X

Industrial Placement

GE Aerospace — July 2019 - July 2020
Process Optimization Internal Tooling Developer Experience Safety-Critical Systems

Year-long placement as Firmware Engineer on Boeing 777X project, gaining hands-on experience in safety-critical aerospace systems and highly-regulated development environments.

  • Reengineered core compiler — reducing compilation time from 8 hours to 25 minutes, dramatically enhancing engineering team productivity and development velocity.
  • Developed and integrated automated test framework in C#/.NET into CI/CD pipeline, optimizing workflow and improving product reliability for Remote Interface Units (RIUs).
  • Enhanced WPF tool UX, improving responsiveness and feature discoverability for internal development tools.
  • Gained foundational experience in safety-critical systems, formal processes, and working within regulated aerospace environments.

Company Ownership

Founder and owner of Nortware, a specialized software development company delivering high-impact digital products through strategic technology choices and product-focused execution.

Founder & Lead Developer
Founded 2023

Nortware

End-to-end product development combining technical excellence, UX research, and product strategy. Experience with Couchbase, Dusk, and emerging startups delivering award-winning solutions that drive business impact.

Let's build together

From Strategy to Shipped Software

Strategic oversight meets hands-on engineering. I partner with founders to build high-impact products, managing the fine details without losing sight of the big picture or your long-term business objectives.