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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript and Growth Product UX

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production React, TypeScript, Angular, React Native, and design-system products.

Strong fit for growth and onboarding work that needs polished UX, fast iteration, analytics-minded product delivery, accessibility, and scalable frontend architecture.

Built customer-facing payment, marketplace, business-travel, insurance, reporting, and mobile product flows across enterprise and consumer contexts.

Experienced with AI-assisted workflows, component systems, CI/CD, Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, API collaboration, and production support.

Skills

Frontend Product: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, Next.js, React Native, Responsive UI, Growth UX, Onboarding Flows

Payments and Workflows: Payment Flows, Marketplace UX, Customer Portals, Approvals, Reporting Interfaces, REST APIs, PostgreSQL

AI and Systems: AI-Assisted Development, Streaming UI, Document Retrieval, LLM Integrations, Electron, Fastify, Zod

Quality: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, Accessibility, Design Systems, CI/CD

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Customer-facing product delivery, payment and marketplace flows, AI-assisted tooling, and frontend architecture.

  • Delivered customer-facing frontend work across payment, marketplace, document, and internal tooling workflows.
  • Owned the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform, shipping secure attachments, document-heavy workflows, and PDF export with one backend engineer.
  • Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform with Angular, Hono, PostgreSQL, a custom streaming widget, and document retrieval through an internal AI gateway.

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

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

Frontend modernization across enterprise web, mobile, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.

  • Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
  • Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing form-heavy reporting with natural-language querying.
  • Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21, introducing Signals, standalone components, and modern control flow.

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

Frontend Developer

Accenture

Sep 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Built Angular and React interfaces for business-travel card workflows used by business owners and employees.

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

Frontend Developer

DXC Technology

Jan 2020 - Sep 2021

  • Developed Angular dashboards and customer portals for insurance and wellness workflows with WCAG AA accessibility requirements.

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

Full Stack Engineer

RCG Global Services

Jun 2017 - Jan 2020

  • Modernized booking and ticketing systems, migrating legacy flows to modern Web Component SPAs.

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

Full Stack Engineer

Zone Laser Support Systems

Feb 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Developed real-time leaderboard systems with AngularJS and WebSocket streams.

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

Personal Projects

Built the typed SDK, provider adapters, event protocol, and loopback security boundary used by Open Vacancy Radar and Pipenzo.

Electron | TypeScript | React | Fastify | Zod

Built a local-first Electron app for vacancy discovery, IND sponsor checks, CV preparation, and application tracking.

Electron | TypeScript | React | SQLite

Built an Electron workflow that turns GitHub issues into reviewable pull requests through plan, refine, implement, and review stages.

Electron | TypeScript | React | Fastify | Node.js

Dutch Defend

dutchdefend.app

Released a React Native financial-planning app for Netherlands expats on iOS and Android, backed by Next.js, Firebase, and Stripe.

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

Flits

getflits.app

Released a React Native app that converts photos into calendar events through a schema-validated Gemini vision pipeline.

React Native | Expo | TypeScript | Gemini | Firebase

GrabPitik

grabpitik.ph

Built the marketplace, license-plate photo search, image-processing service, admin workflows, and Xendit payment-integrity checks.

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

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013