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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript and Product UX

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building customer-facing React and TypeScript products, reusable UI systems, and polished responsive interfaces.

Works closely with design, product, and backend teams to turn incomplete briefs into accessible, maintainable features that solve real user problems.

Brings hands-on experience in design systems, web components, visual QA, testing, CI/CD, API integration, and practical AI product interfaces.

Open-source builder of AI-agent desktop products using Electron, React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebase, and Playwright.

Skills

Frontend Product Delivery: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, HTML, CSS, Responsive UI, API Integration

UI and UX: Design Systems, Web Components, Accessibility, Component Libraries, Design Tokens, Visual QA, Product Discovery

AI Product Work: LLM Interfaces, Agent Workflows, Streaming UI, Document Workflows, AI-Assisted Development

Quality: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jest, CI/CD, Code Reviews, Performance

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Design systems, reusable frontend platforms, AI product interfaces, and production delivery.

  • Independently designed and built io Design System, a 63-component Stencil Web Components platform distributed across React, Angular, and Vue products.
  • Established CI-gated design-token governance, accessibility baselines, visual review discipline, and cross-framework component contracts.
  • Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform with Angular, Hono, Postgres, custom streaming UI, 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 reusable UI delivery across enterprise web, mobile, and analytics products.

  • Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21, modernizing it with Signals, standalone components, and current control flow syntax.
  • Built React web and companion React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
  • Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-based reporting flow with natural-language querying.

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