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Jake Ortega

Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript, Security-Minded UX

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl
jakeortega.nllinkedin.com/in/ortegajake00github.com/jortega0033

Profile

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

Strong fit for security product work: clean frontend architecture, accessible and trustworthy UX, data-heavy workflows, internal tools, and production quality.

Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system used across React, Angular, and Vue products, with token governance, documentation, accessibility baselines, and CI checks.

Hands-on with AI-assisted development, Electron apps, REST APIs, WebSockets, testing, and careful review of edge cases before release.

Skills

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

Product UX: Frontend Architecture, Design Systems, Component Libraries, Accessibility, Performance, State Management, Data-Dense UI, 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, design systems, AI-assisted products, and secure workflow UX.

  • 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

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

Open Vacancy Radar

github.com/jortega0033/open-vacancy-radar

Built a local-first Electron app for vacancy discovery, IND sponsor checks, CV preparation, and application tracking.

Electron | TypeScript | React | SQLite

Pipenzo

github.com/jortega0033/pipenzo

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