Jake Ortega
Principal Frontend Engineer | Architecture, AI Workflows and Design Systems
Profile
Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building large-scale production interfaces across Angular, React, TypeScript, Web Components, RxJS, NgRx, and design systems.
Strong fit for frontend platform leadership: architecture strategy, performance, reusable component systems, accessibility, developer experience, and pragmatic delivery across product teams.
Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system distributed to React, Angular, and Vue, with token governance, documentation, and CI checks.
Hands-on builder of AI-assisted products and open-source Electron tools, including local agent workflows, streaming interfaces, and production-grade code review around AI output.
Skills
Frontend Architecture: Angular, Angular Signals, React, TypeScript, RxJS, NgRx, Next.js, Web Components, Micro Frontends, Performance
Platform and UX Systems: Design Systems, Component Libraries, Design Tokens, Accessibility, Reusable UI, Frontend Scalability, Developer Experience
AI Product Engineering: AI-Assisted Development, LLM Integrations, MCP, Agentic Coding, Streaming UI, RAG and Vector Search, Prompt Engineering
Delivery and Quality: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Code Reviews, Mentoring
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
iO Digital
Feb 2026 - Present
Frontend architecture, design systems, AI-assisted product delivery, and cross-team technical leadership.
- Designed and built io Design System, a 63-component Stencil Web Components platform distributed to React, Angular, and Vue with accessibility engineering and CI-gated token governance.
- Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of a Kotlin/Spring Boot and React expense-management platform, shipping document-heavy workflows with secure attachments and PDF export.
- Built io Chat, an Angular, Hono, and Postgres AI chat-widget 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 across enterprise Angular, React, React Native, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Led the migration of a large Angular application from v13 to v21, introducing Signals, standalone components, modern control flow, RxJS, and NgRx patterns while feature delivery continued.
- Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-based reporting flow with natural-language querying.
- 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 workflows used by business owners and employees, using Angular Material for consistent accessible UI.
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
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
GrabPitik
grabpitik.phBuilt 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