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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

Commercial Projects

A selection of key projects developed with industry leaders across privacy technology, SaaS, and blockchain sectors. Each project emphasizes performant design, measurable business impact, and cross-functional collaboration.

Locking System Configurator

Locking System Configurator

Sicherheitstechnik Nord (Meesenburg GmbH) – January 2025 - June 2025

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.

The platform is scheduled to go live by the end of 2025.

Dusk Web Wallet

Dusk Web Wallet

Dusk – October 2023 - June 2025

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

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

Developed the complete frontend for a tokenized bond investment platform supporting a sold-out €3.5 million bond offering.

  • Built frontend architecture integrating Dusk Token, enabling investors to enhance returns through structured yield mechanisms.
  • 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

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 advanced features including Capella iQ (AI coding assistant), enhanced replication capabilities, and improved Single Sign-On.
  • 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.

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

Founded 2023
Founder & Lead Developer

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

Education

Graduated top of class (BEng Software Engineering, First Class Honours) from the University of Sheffield with the Mappin Medal and best dissertation distinction. 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

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.
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Industrial Placement

GE Aerospace – July 2019 - July 2020

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.