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.

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 & Handbook
Kurrent — January 2026 - PresentContributed 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 2025Reviewed 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
Sicherheitstechnik Nord (Meesenburg GmbH) — January 2025 - June 2025Designed 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 — October 2023 - June 2025Contributed 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 Explorer
Dusk — October 2024 - June 2025Played 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 Bond Investment Platform
BWRE Capital — May - June 2024Developed 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 — June 2022 - September 2023Played 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 cohort — ClimaFever, 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.

Dissertation Project
University of Sheffield — September 2020 - June 2021Comprehensive 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.

Industrial Placement
GE Aerospace — July 2019 - July 2020Year-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.
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.