Jake Ortega
Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript and AI Product UX
Profile
Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production React, TypeScript, Angular, Web Components, and design-system platforms.
Strong fit for AI product work that needs polished user-facing features, pragmatic frontend architecture, accessibility, performance, and close product/design collaboration.
Built AI-assisted interfaces including streaming chat, document-retrieval workflows, query-intent classification, and agentic coding products with careful production review.
Experienced mentoring engineers, leading frontend direction, improving maintainability, and shipping through changing requirements in product teams.
Skills
Frontend Product Engineering: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, Angular Signals, Next.js, Web Components, Tailwind CSS, Responsive UI
AI Product UX: LLM Integrations, Streaming UI, AI-Assisted Development, MCP, RAG and Retrieval, Prompt Engineering, OpenAI, Anthropic
Architecture and Quality: Frontend Architecture, Design Systems, Accessibility, Performance, Testing, Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, CI/CD
Full Stack Collaboration: Node.js, Hono, NestJS, REST APIs, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Firebase, GCP
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
iO Digital
Feb 2026 - Present
AI-assisted product delivery, frontend architecture, design systems, and polished B2B user experiences.
- Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform with Angular, Hono, Postgres, a custom streaming widget, and document retrieval through an internal AI gateway.
- Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with ranking and query-intent classification to make complex search results more useful.
- Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system used across React, Angular, and Vue products, including accessibility engineering and CI-gated token governance.
Stencil | Web Components | Angular | React | Vue | Next.js | TypeScript | Hono | Tailwind CSS | Playwright | Vitest
Frontend Developer
Lunatech
Jan 2023 - Feb 2026
Frontend modernization across enterprise web, mobile, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing form-heavy reporting 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 while feature delivery continued.
- 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 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