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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | Angular and DevOps

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience across Angular, TypeScript, shared UI platforms, and enterprise product delivery.

Led a large Angular modernization from version 13 to 21 and built accessible component systems used across Angular, React, and Vue.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD maintenance, automated quality checks, production incident response, security hardening, and verified releases.

Works closely with engineers and stakeholders to turn shared technical decisions into maintainable tools and reliable user experiences.

Skills

Angular and Frontend: Angular, Angular Signals, TypeScript, RxJS, NgRx, Web Components, React, HTML, SCSS

Shared Platforms: Stencil, Design Systems, Design Tokens, Component APIs, Accessibility, Frontend Architecture

DevOps and Delivery: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Docker, Terraform, GCP, Azure, AWS, Production Support

Quality and Security: Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, Jasmine, Karma, CI Quality Gates, Security Hardening, WCAG AA

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Shared frontend platforms, accessibility engineering, and production delivery across multiple framework ecosystems.

  • Independently designed and built a 63-component Stencil design system with accessibility engineering, CI-enforced design-token checks, and distribution to React, Angular, and Vue.
  • Established design-token governance and accessibility baselines adopted across shared UI surfaces and an existing team codebase.
  • Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform, including security hardening, document attachments, and PDF export.

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

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

Enterprise Angular modernization, CI/CD ownership, and reliable production delivery.

  • Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21, introducing Signals, standalone components, and updated control-flow syntax.
  • Developed modular TypeScript and SCSS UI systems using RxJS and NgRx patterns.
  • Maintained the GitLab CI/CD pipeline for linting, type-checking, and automated builds.

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 meeting WCAG AA 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

Presentor

rideword.app

Free-during-beta macOS/Windows teleprompter overlay (Electron, React, TypeScript) with a hardened IPC security model, LemonSqueezy license-verification infrastructure, and voice-paced scroll, backed by 594+ automated tests.

Electron | React 18 | TypeScript | Vite | Web Audio API | Playwright | GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013