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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript and AI Product UX

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

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

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