Jake Ortega
Senior Front End Software Engineer | AI-First Web Apps and TypeScript
Profile
Senior Front End Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production Angular, React, TypeScript, React Native, and design-system platforms.
Strong fit for mission-critical customer-facing web work that needs high availability, performance-minded UI, AI-assisted engineering practices, and clear technical ownership.
Built large-scale dashboards, insurance portals, travel-card workflows, real-time interfaces, and AI-assisted product surfaces with streaming UI and document retrieval.
Experienced with frontend architecture reviews, accessibility, testing with Cypress, Karma, Playwright, and Vitest, CI/CD, API collaboration, and production support.
Skills
Frontend Engineering: Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Next.js, React Native, Responsive UI
AI-First Delivery: AI-Assisted Development, AI Code Review, Agent Tooling, Streaming UI, Document Retrieval, LLM Integrations
Architecture and UX: Design Systems, Web Components, Performance, Accessibility, API Contracts, Customer-facing Apps, Dashboards
Quality: Cypress, Karma, Jasmine, Playwright, Vitest, CI/CD, Code Reviews, Production Support
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
iO Digital
Feb 2026 - Present
AI-assisted product delivery, frontend architecture, design systems, and customer-facing workflow UX.
- Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system used across React, Angular, and Vue products, including accessibility engineering and CI-gated token governance.
- 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.
- Owned the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform, shipping secure attachments, document-heavy workflows, and PDF export with one backend engineer.
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.
- Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21, introducing Signals, standalone components, and modern control flow.
- 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.
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
AgentDock
github.com/jortega0033/agentdockBuilt the typed SDK, provider adapters, event protocol, and loopback security boundary used by Open Vacancy Radar and Pipenzo.
Electron | TypeScript | React | Fastify | Zod
Open Vacancy Radar
github.com/jortega0033/open-vacancy-radarBuilt a local-first Electron app for vacancy discovery, IND sponsor checks, CV preparation, and application tracking.
Electron | TypeScript | React | SQLite
Pipenzo
github.com/jortega0033/pipenzoBuilt 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.appReleased 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.appReleased a React Native app that converts photos into calendar events through a schema-validated Gemini vision pipeline.
React Native | Expo | TypeScript | Gemini | Firebase
Revada
Mobile-first social driving app, early stage: capture and review drives with live GPS telemetry, share sessions with a crew, and track progress on leaderboards. React Native/Expo mobile client, a TanStack Start web admin, Firebase backend.
React Native | Expo | TanStack Start | TypeScript | Firebase
Education
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East
Jun 2009 - Mar 2013