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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript, Growth and Design Systems

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping responsive, accessible React and TypeScript products, shared component systems, and customer-facing web experiences.

Builds reusable frontend foundations and high-quality product surfaces, balancing visual detail, performance, maintainability, and fast iteration with product, design, and backend teams.

Hands-on with design systems, web performance, SEO-aware frontend work, experiment-ready product delivery, CI gates, tests, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

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

Skills

Frontend and Growth: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Astro, HTML, CSS, Web Performance, Technical SEO

UI Systems: Design Systems, Web Components, Component Libraries, Design Tokens, Accessibility, Responsive UI, Visual QA

Product Delivery: Experiment-ready Delivery, Product Discovery, CMS Integration, API Design, Cross-functional Collaboration, AI Workflows

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

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