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Jake Ortega

Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript, AI Workflows

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping production product interfaces across React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, Web Components, React Native, and APIs.

Strong fit for DiligenceSquared: AI-powered research workflows, data-heavy frontend architecture, real-time interfaces, UI craft, and making complex information accessible.

Built enterprise and customer-facing products across finance, insurance, workforce insights, ecommerce, travel, workflow automation, and AI-enabled search and chat.

Hands-on builder of open-source local AI-agent products using Electron, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Fastify, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Playwright, and release automation.

Skills

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js, JavaScript, Angular, Electron, Web Components, Tailwind CSS, HTML, CSS

AI Product UI: AI Workflows, LLM Integrations, Voice/Chat UX, Data-Heavy UX, Real-Time Interfaces, RAG & Vector Search

Architecture: State Management, Reusable Components, Design Systems, Performance, Accessibility, REST APIs, GraphQL

Delivery: Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Product Collaboration, Startup Execution

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture, AI product interfaces, design systems, and production UI delivery.

  • 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 for AI-assisted search workflows.
  • Designed and built io Design System, a 63-component Stencil Web Components platform used across React, Angular, and Vue products.

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

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

Frontend modernization and data-heavy product delivery across enterprise web, mobile, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.

  • Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-based reporting flow with natural-language querying.
  • Built React web and companion React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
  • Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 while keeping normal feature delivery moving.

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