Jake Ortega
Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript, Next.js and Product UX
Profile
Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, React Native, and design-system products.
Strong fit for consumer healthcare product work that needs polished UX, accessible interfaces, fast iteration, and pragmatic frontend architecture.
Experienced with search, reporting, checkout-like flows, document-heavy workflows, data fetching, API integration, QA ownership, and cross-functional work with design and operations.
Hands-on product builder across AI-assisted workflows, mobile apps, SaaS tools, payments, and local-first developer products.
Skills
Frontend Product: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, React Native, Tailwind CSS, Responsive UI, Accessibility, Product UX
Architecture: Server Components, Hooks, Data Fetching, State Management, Design Systems, Web Components, Performance Optimization
Backend & Data: Node.js, Hono, NestJS, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, WebSockets, Firebase, AWS
Quality: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, CI/CD, Code Reviews, Production Support
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
iO Digital
Feb 2026 - Present
Product-grade frontend delivery, AI-assisted workflows, design systems, and cross-functional UX engineering.
- Owned the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform, shipping secure document attachments, approval workflows, and PDF export with one backend engineer.
- Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform with Angular, Hono, PostgreSQL, streaming UI, and document retrieval through an internal AI gateway.
- Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with ranking and query-intent classification for better search and review workflows.
Stencil | Web Components | Angular | React | Vue | Next.js | TypeScript | Hono | Tailwind CSS | Playwright | Vitest
Frontend Developer
Lunatech
Jan 2023 - Feb 2026
Frontend modernization across web, mobile, analytics, and AI-assisted reporting products.
- Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
- Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-heavy reporting flow with natural-language querying.
- Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21, introducing Signals, standalone components, and modern control flow.
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 employees.
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 with 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