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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | Angular and Data-Intensive Products

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 6 1775 0459 contact@jakeortega.nl
jakeortega.nllinkedin.com/in/ortegajake00github.com/jortega0033

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and modernizing production applications with Angular, TypeScript, React, and Web Components.

Led a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 while normal feature delivery continued, introducing Signals and standalone components without a disruptive rewrite.

Experienced in turning complex workflows and large amounts of operational data into clear interfaces, with ownership spanning product decisions, frontend architecture, API integration, testing, releases, and production support.

Works closely with product, design, and backend teams, reviews code, supports other engineers, and uses AI-assisted development while remaining accountable for architecture and production quality.

Skills

Frontend Engineering: Angular, Angular Signals, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, RxJS, NgRx, Responsive UI

Architecture and UX: Data-Intensive UI, Component Architecture, Design Systems, Web Components, Design Tokens, Accessibility, Frontend Performance, Micro Frontends

APIs and Platforms: REST APIs, WebSockets, Streaming UI, Node.js, NestJS, Hono, PostgreSQL, GCP, AWS, Azure

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

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture and end-to-end product delivery across shared UI platforms, data-heavy workflows, and AI-assisted products.

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

Angular modernization and product delivery across enterprise web, mobile, analytics, and AI-assisted applications.

  • 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, and modern template control flow to simplify state updates and improve long-term maintainability.
  • Built analytics-heavy Angular and React interfaces that turned reporting and workforce data into practical, understandable workflows.

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

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

AgentDock

github.com/jortega0033/agentdock

Built the typed SDK, provider adapters, event protocol, and loopback security boundary used by Open Vacancy Radar and Pipenzo.

Electron | TypeScript | React | Fastify | Zod

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

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

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013