Product Frontend Engineer

I build complex, accessible web platforms — from enterprise SaaS and design systems to privacy-focused fintech — combining technical execution with UX research and product strategy to ship B2B and B2C products with measurable business impact.

Norton Andreev

Selected work

Client projects and professional roles across enterprise SaaS, platform migrations, privacy technology, and fintech — from aerospace firmware to AI code quality. Each engagement emphasizes accessible design, measurable business impact, and cross-functional collaboration.

Kurrent Navigator Desktop App

Kurrent Navigator

Kurrent — January 2026 – Present
Stack MigrationElectron ApplicationUX / UI PolishingPerformance Optimization

Contributed to Kurrent Navigator, a high-performance desktop administration client for KurrentDB built with Electron and Svelte 5. The project embraces SvelteKit’s newest server-driven primitives to deliver fast, continuously updating interfaces over enterprise database backends.

  • Adopted SvelteKit’s Remote Functions to build a type-safe live data layer that continuously streams cluster stats, connectors, and stream data into reactive components.
  • Implemented 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 that stay smooth across massive datasets.
  • Engineered safety-critical admin flows — granular role-based access control, resilient error recovery, and quorum-aware cluster shutdown and failover controls.
Couchbase Capella

Couchbase Capella

Couchbase — June 2022 – September 2023
Product-Led GrowthEnterprise SaaSMulti-Cloud StrategyCross-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.
BWRE Capital – Bonds – Portfolio Page

BWRE Capital Bond Investment Platform

BWRE Capital — May – June 2024
FinTech ProductRegulatory ComplianceGo-to-Market ExecutionMVP 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.
Kurrent UI Kit and UI Handbook

Kurrent UI Kit & Handbook

Kurrent — January 2026 – Present
Design System MigrationSvelte 5AccessibilityUX GuidelinesDocumentation

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.
Dusk Web Wallet

Dusk Web Wallet

Dusk — October 2023 – June 2025
Product LifecycleFeature DevelopmentUser ExperienceGo-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.

Dusk Block Explorer

Dusk Explorer

Dusk — October 2024 – June 2025
Data-Driven UXPerformance & UXFeature PrioritizationUser-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.

Locking System Configurator

Locking System Configurator

Sicherheitstechnik Nord (Meesenburg GmbH) — January 2025 – June 2025
Product DesignUX ArchitectureStakeholder CollaborationE-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. Developed with SvelteKit, emphasizing responsiveness and modularity. The design system established becomes a core reference for the platform’s frontend development.

AI Training Engineer (Code Quality)

Magic — August 2025 – November 2025
Code ReviewSvelteModern JavaScriptEvaluation & CalibrationAnnotation Workflows

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

G9X

Firmware Engineer

GE Aerospace — July 2019 – July 2020
Process OptimizationInternal ToolingDeveloper ExperienceSafety-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.

Company ownership

Founder and owner of Nortware, a product engineering studio building complex web platforms for startups and enterprise clients — from design systems to full-stack product delivery.

Founded 2023 Founder & Product Frontend Engineer

Nortware

End-to-end platform engineering — complex web products, shared design systems, and accessible component libraries. Clients include Couchbase, Dusk Network, and early-stage startups where product judgment and technical depth drive measurable outcomes.

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 ProductMarket ResearchDual-Platform StrategyHealthcare 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.

Let’s build together

From strategy to shipped software

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