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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Developer | React, TypeScript, Design Systems

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

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

Strong fit for senior frontend roles that need clean component architecture, scalable UI systems, accessibility, performance, and close product collaboration.

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, Electron apps, React Native, data-heavy product workflows, REST APIs, WebSockets, and production delivery across distributed teams.

Skills

Frontend: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, Next.js, Electron, Web Components, Stencil, Tailwind CSS, Responsive UI

Architecture and UX: Frontend Architecture, Design Systems, Component Libraries, Accessibility, Performance, State Management, Product UX, Code Reviews

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

Testing and Delivery: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CI/CD Pipelines

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture, React-compatible design systems, AI-assisted products, and product-grade UI 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 secure document attachments and PDF export for operations-heavy workflows.
  • 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 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