Jake Ortega

Cross-framework UI architecture, design systems, and product-grade frontend delivery.

• Independently designed and built io Design System, a 63-component Stencil Web Components platform built for React, Angular, and Vue, with accessibility checks and CI-gated design-token governance.
• Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of an existing Kotlin/Spring Boot and React expense-management platform alongside one backend engineer, shipping a complete document-attachment feature with security hardening and PDF export integration.
• Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform (Angular, Hono, Postgres) with a hand-rolled streaming widget and a document-retrieval pipeline against an internal AI gateway.
• Extended an AI-powered candidate-search feature with a Reciprocal Rank Fusion layer and an LLM-based query-intent classifier within an existing multi-engineer Next.js codebase.
• Led the internal customization of an open-source AI design-prototyping tool into an iO-branded product, integrating an internal AI gateway and building a new structured-output video-generation pipeline.
• Established design-token governance, accessibility baselines, and review standards for AI-assisted changes across shared UI work.

Stencil · Web Components · Angular · React · Vue · Next.js · TypeScript · Hono · Tailwind CSS · Playwright · Vitest

Frontend modernization across enterprise web, mobile, and analytics-heavy applications.

• Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-based reporting flow with natural-language querying.
• Led the incremental migration of a large Angular application from v13 to v21 while feature delivery continued, moving the codebase to Signals, standalone components, and modern template control flow.
• Built React web and companion React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
• Developed modular, testable UI systems in TypeScript and SCSS with a strong focus on maintainability and scale.
• Investigated production incidents and delivered hotfixes, verifying each fix before redeployment, with on-call responsibility during active incidents.
• Maintained the GitLab CI/CD pipeline covering linting, type-checking, and automated builds.

Angular · Angular Signals · React · React Native · NestJS · PostgreSQL · TypeScript · SCSS · NgRx · RxJS · GitLab CI/CD

Business-travel platform delivery across web and mobile for a state transport authority.

• Built Angular and React interfaces for business-travel card workflows used by business owners and their employees, using Angular Material for a consistent, accessible design system.
• Developed React Native mobile experiences and integrated frontend applications with Java and C# APIs, aligning frontend and backend on evolving contracts.
• Delivered accessible, responsive workflows through regular releases in a cross-functional product team.

Angular · React · React Native · Angular Material · Java · C# · GitLab CI/CD · NgRx · RxJS

Insurance and wellness platform work spanning dashboards, reporting, and multilingual UX.

• Developed Angular dashboards and customer portals for insurance and wellness workflows, meeting WCAG AA accessibility requirements in a compliance-sensitive context.
• Built React and Power BI reporting interfaces and integrated multilingual reporting experiences.
• Implemented unit tests with Jasmine and Karma and automated Cypress E2E coverage, and supported Agile planning, estimation, and delivery.

Angular · React · Power BI · Azure · SQL Server · Cypress · Jasmine · Karma

Large-scale e-commerce modernization and shared UI platform work.

• Modernized booking and ticketing systems, migrating legacy flows to modern Web Component SPAs.
• Built and maintained a shared design system with reusable components, accessibility standards, theming, and documentation.
• Contributed to micro frontend architecture and integrated frontend applications with Java and Node.js services.

Web Components · Design Systems · Micro Frontends · Java · Node.js · CI/CD

Real-time operations tooling for laser tag venues.

• Developed real-time leaderboard systems with AngularJS and WebSocket streams.
• Exported SPA flows into Android APKs using Ionic for tablet and kiosk deployment.
• Built AWS-backed member portals and kiosk systems with PHP and Symfony.

AngularJS · WebSockets · Ionic · AWS · DynamoDB · Amazon S3 · PHP · Symfony

Personal product

Search-first marketplace connecting motorcycle photographers and riders in the Philippines, with photographer, rider, and admin experiences, license-plate photo search, and a dedicated image-processing microservice with Xendit payment integrity.

Next.js 16 · React 19 · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Xendit · Terraform

Personal product

Free-during-beta macOS/Windows teleprompter overlay (Electron, React, TypeScript) with a hardened IPC security model, LemonSqueezy license-verification infrastructure, and voice-paced scroll, backed by 594+ automated tests.

Electron · React 18 · TypeScript · Vite · Web Audio API · Playwright · GitHub Actions

Personal product

Full-stack financial-planning app for expats in the Netherlands: React Native/Expo mobile client on the App Store and Google Play, a Next.js API and admin backend on Cloud Run, and Stripe-backed payments, owned end to end from architecture to release.

React Native · Expo · Next.js · TypeScript · Firebase · Stripe

Personal product

Mobile app that extracts calendar events from photos using a schema-validated Gemini vision pipeline, with server-side entitlement verification and native iOS/Android detection modules, live on the App Store and Google Play.

React Native · Expo · TypeScript · Gemini · Firebase

Personal project (open source)

An open-source Electron and local-daemon boilerplate for desktop apps that reuse a user’s existing, signed-in Claude Code or Codex CLI session instead of asking for another API key. Typed adapters, a normalized event protocol, and a loopback boundary keep the local AI runtime controlled. Backs Open Vacancy Radar and Pipenzo.

Electron · TypeScript · React · Fastify · Zod

Personal project (open source, WIP)

Electron desktop app, built on AgentDock, that turns a GitHub issue into a small, human-reviewable pull request through a Refine, Implement, Review pipeline wrapped around Claude Code and Codex. Review ends with a separate verifier, and a publish gate the agent can’t call itself waits for human approval.

Electron · TypeScript · React · Fastify · Node.js

Personal project (open source, WIP)

Local-first Electron desktop app, built on AgentDock, for discovering frontend vacancies and tracking applications: Netherlands roles verified against the IND’s recognised-sponsor register, worldwide remote roles from around 50 researched public sources, all local with no cloud account.

Electron · TypeScript · React · SQLite