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Work

This page is the work I’ve shipped across client platforms, internal systems, and independent products. It moves across AI systems, platform architecture, design engineering, and product work because the practice has never sat in one lane.

What holds it together is ownership. I tend to get brought in when the problem crosses system design, interface design, and delivery at once. Defence, finance, health, education, enterprise SaaS. Work that has to hold together under real constraints.

AISystems

2024 – Present
Senior Product EngineerMay 2025Dec 2025

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.

AWS BedrockLangChainMeteorReactMongoDBLexical
Principal EngineerDec 2024Jul 2025

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.

Vue 3NuxtElasticsearchKeycloakAzure ADxAPICASS (IMS Global)
Senior Full Stack EngineerJan 2024Sep 2024

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.

ReactNext.jsPythonDjangoZebra

PlatformsArchitecture

2020 – 2023
Senior Engineer / Product ArchitectDec 2021Jun 2023

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.

StencilReact NativeTypeScriptDesign Systems
Senior Frontend EngineerAug 2023Nov 2023

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.

ReactNext.jsReduxTypeScriptStorybook
Senior Software EngineerMay 2020Sep 2020

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.

ReactAEMAEM Components

Design Engineering

2018 – 2021
Lead Design EngineerOct 2020Apr 2021

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.

NuxtVueBraintreeMulti-tenancy
Lead Design EngineerNov 2019Mar 2020

Helped establish the frontend architecture and visual system for an institutional finance concept, where clarity and structure mattered more than decoration.

AngularTypeScriptSass
Senior Front End EngineerOct 2018Dec 2018

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.

NuxtVueJavaScriptSass

Product Design

2018 – 2021
Product Design LeadMay 2021Nov 2021

Built design systems and implementation-ready specs for education products, with accessibility and interaction design treated as part of the system from the start.

FigmaDesign SystemsInteraction DesignWCAG 2.1
Lead UI DesignerJun 2019Nov 2019

UI design for a financial reporting tool, plus a small internal Vue app for the bank's engineering teams.

FigmaReactVueCompliance Tooling
Senior Designer / Lead Frontend EngineerDec 2018Jun 2019

Design and frontend architecture for the RMIT Online website, then lead frontend through a full rebuild in Vue and Nuxt.

VueNuxtGraphQLWCAG 2.1Vercel

Consultant Beginnings

2013 – 2018

Buddy Platform

Senior Design Engineer
2018

Esri Australia

Senior Design Engineer
2017

Tabcorp

Senior Software Engineer
2016

ESPN

Software Engineer
2015

Coles

User Experience Designer
2014

ACER

Frontend Developer
2014

Early Foundations

2004 – 2013

Technical Leadership

E-commerce delivery, ownership, and broader technical responsibility
2013

Systems Thinking

Structure, delivery flow, and implementation quality working together
2012

Frontend Depth

JavaScript-heavy interfaces, richer interaction, and reusable UI patterns
2010

Interface and UX

Early web interfaces with design and implementation moving together
2008

Client Delivery

HTML, CSS, PHP, and CMS workflows across live client work
2006

Early Web Foundations

Photoshop comps, sliced assets, and Dreamweaver-era table builds
2004

Previous Research

Hawk

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.

© 2026 Robert Andrew, Melbourne, Australia.

Robert Andrew

Design. Build. Ship. Repeat.