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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, AI Developer Tools, Design Systems

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 jortega0033@gmail.com

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building complex production-grade applications across React, TypeScript, Angular, Web Components, design systems, testing, and CI/CD.

Strong fit for Blitzy: AI-powered developer tools, agentic coding workflows, frontend architecture, component libraries, performance, and technical leadership.

Open to relocating for an on-site Cambridge role, with visa sponsorship handled through the appropriate employment route.

Skills

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, Web Components, Vite, Tailwind CSS

AI Developer Tools: Agentic Coding, LLM Integrations, MCP, AI Code Evaluation, Developer Workflows

Architecture: Design Systems, Component Libraries, State Management, Performance, Accessibility

Quality: Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, Jasmine, Karma, CI/CD, Code Reviews

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture, design systems, AI interfaces, and engineering standards.

  • Designed and built io Design System, a 63-component Stencil Web Components platform with accessibility baselines, token governance, and React, Angular, and Vue distribution.
  • Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform with Angular, Hono, Postgres, custom streaming UI, and document retrieval through an internal AI gateway.
  • Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and LLM-based query-intent classification.

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

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

Frontend modernization, React delivery, and AI-assisted analysis workflows.

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

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