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Jake Ortega

Staff Frontend Engineer | B2B SaaS, UX Systems and AI Workflows

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production interfaces across React, TypeScript, Angular, Web Components, and design systems.

Strong fit for B2B SaaS product work that needs polished UX, scalable frontend architecture, reusable UI systems, accessibility, performance, and product judgment.

Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system used across React, Angular, and Vue products, with token governance, documentation, and CI checks.

Hands-on with AI-assisted development, internal AI products, streaming UI, and agentic coding workflows while keeping production quality and user trust in view.

Skills

Frontend Product Engineering: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, Angular Signals, Next.js, Web Components, Tailwind CSS, Responsive UI

UX Systems: B2B SaaS, Frontend Architecture, Design Systems, Component Libraries, Accessibility, Interaction Design, Design Tokens, Product UX

AI and APIs: AI-Assisted Development, LLM Integrations, MCP, REST APIs, WebSockets, Streaming UI, Node.js, Hono, NestJS, PostgreSQL

Quality and Delivery: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Code Reviews, Production Support

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture, polished product UX, design systems, and AI-assisted product delivery.

  • Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system used by React, Angular, and Vue products, including accessibility engineering and CI-gated token governance.
  • Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform with one backend engineer, shipping document-heavy workflows with secure attachments and PDF export.
  • Built an Angular, Hono, and Postgres chat platform with 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 and product delivery across enterprise web, mobile, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.

  • Led the incremental migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 while the team continued normal feature delivery.
  • Introduced Signals, standalone components, modern template control flow, RxJS, and NgRx patterns to simplify reactive state and maintenance.
  • Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.

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 their employees, using Angular Material for a consistent, accessible design system.

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, meeting 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

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

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

Presentor

rideword.app

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

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013