# Robert Andrew

> Principal AI Engineer and Designer based in Melbourne, Australia. Independent through Textual since 2014. Builds AI systems, product platforms, and design systems across Defence, enterprise SaaS, finance, health, and education.

This is Robert Andrew's own portfolio. The case studies record his role and engagement period; those dates are not publication dates. Client confidentiality and pre-publication research limits are stated on the relevant pages. Enquiries: robert@textual.au.

## Profile and contact

- [Profile in Markdown](https://robert.textual.au/profile.md): Identity, capabilities, consultancy, and public profiles. [Canonical profile](https://robert.textual.au/about).
- [Work index](https://robert.textual.au/work): All published case studies.
- [Hire](https://robert.textual.au/hire): Embedded day-rate work, scoped projects, and advisory engagements.
- [Contact](https://robert.textual.au/contact): Current availability and enquiries.

## Case studies

- [Mentorloop](https://robert.textual.au/work/mentorloop.md): Embedded engagement on a global mentoring platform. General product and UI feature work across the platform alongside Loopy, an in-app AI chat that adapts to who is asking and where they are in the product. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/mentorloop).
- [Australian Defence Force](https://robert.textual.au/work/defence-lms.md): Responsible for building the LMS at the centre of a Defence training initiative, covering competency management, search, identity, and learning analytics. I carried system design, product direction, and delivery alongside teams responsible for adjacent platform services. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/defence-lms).
- [Vanguard](https://robert.textual.au/work/vanguard.md): Extended Vanguard's Stencil component system with specs, documentation, and rollout guidance, then carried that work into a shared React Native library for iOS and Android. A more consistent design language across teams and devices. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/vanguard).
- [Project Eucalyptus](https://robert.textual.au/work/euco.md): Exploring whether eucalyptus waste can support multiple higher-value product lines, including alternatives to imported fuel. Still early, but the interest is in turning one overlooked feedstock into several viable businesses. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/euco).
- [x-RD](https://robert.textual.au/work/xrd.md): Frontend and process-layer work on a Defence logistics platform. React and Next.js on the client, Django on the process side, Zebra integration inside the labelling flow. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/xrd).
- [ADF Careers](https://robert.textual.au/work/adf-careers.md): Frontend and design-system work for an ADF recruitment hub. React and Next.js interfaces, component patterns, Storybook documentation. Cleaner, more consistent application than what came before, not one-off screens. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/adf-careers).
- [World Vision](https://robert.textual.au/work/world-vision.md): Designed, built, and shipped a white-label donation platform that World Vision's larger partner organisations ran as their own branded experience. Multi-tenant architecture, configuration-driven, so each partner kept its identity while sharing the core engine. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/world-vision).
- [Morgan Stanley](https://robert.textual.au/work/morgan-stanley.md): Helped establish the frontend architecture and visual system for an institutional finance concept, where clarity and structure mattered more than decoration. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/morgan-stanley).
- [Medibank](https://robert.textual.au/work/medibank.md): Component toolkit for Adobe Experience Manager. React-backed AEM components that survived authoring, the CMS lifecycle, and weekly content shipping without fighting the platform on every page. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/medibank).
- [Pearson Education](https://robert.textual.au/work/pearson.md): Built design systems and implementation-ready specs for education products, with accessibility and interaction design treated as part of the system from the start. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/pearson).
- [National Australia Bank](https://robert.textual.au/work/nab.md): UI design for a financial reporting tool, plus a small internal Vue app for the bank's engineering teams. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/nab).
- [RMIT Online](https://robert.textual.au/work/rmit.md): Design and frontend architecture for the RMIT Online website, then lead frontend through a full rebuild in Vue and Nuxt. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/rmit).
- [Prime Motive](https://robert.textual.au/work/prime-motive.md): Built a campaign site for CGU Insurance on a tight timeline, balancing high-motion presentation with a Nuxt and SASS setup that stayed performant on all devices. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/prime-motive).
- [Hawk](https://robert.textual.au/work/hawk.md): A multi-tenant AI coding middleware layer that learns how developers work, routes requests across providers, and exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for IDEs. Profile learning, context filtering, and budget-aware orchestration sit underneath it. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/hawk).
- [Kernel](https://robert.textual.au/work/kernel.md): Exploring whether quantum state models can hold up inside OS-level resource management and process isolation. Still early, but the interest is in rethinking how identity and state shape what processes can see, reach, and share. [Canonical case study](https://robert.textual.au/work/kernel).

## Public profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/randos)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/atextual)
- [Instagram](https://instagram.com/scrawndo)
- [Behance](https://behance.net/robertandrew)
- [Textual](https://textual.au): Independent consultancy.

## Optional

- [Full public portfolio in Markdown](https://robert.textual.au/llms-full.txt): Profile and the complete public case studies in one document.
- [Sitemap](https://robert.textual.au/sitemap.xml): Canonical HTML pages for search discovery.