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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React and Next.js

Vlaardingen, Netherlands | Open to relocation to Billund +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping production web products using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Angular, and Web Components.

Built reusable component platforms and design systems shared across React, Angular, and Vue, with accessibility and design-token governance.

Strong in frontend architecture, responsive product UX, testing, performance, API integration, and delivery through CI/CD pipelines.

Product-minded engineer who works closely with design, backend, and platform teams and is willing to relocate to Billund for the role.

Skills

React and Web: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Tailwind CSS, Responsive UI, Accessibility

Architecture: Design Systems, Web Components, Stencil, Component APIs, Design Tokens, Micro Frontends, Performance

Testing and Delivery: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Code Reviews

APIs and Cloud: Node.js, NestJS, Hono, REST APIs, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

React and Next.js product delivery plus shared UI architecture across multiple frontend frameworks.

  • Designed and built a 63-component Stencil design system distributed to React, Angular, and Vue, with accessibility and CI-gated token governance.
  • Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of a React expense-management platform, working directly with a backend engineer to ship secure document workflows.
  • Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with search ranking and query-intent capabilities.

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, and analytics-heavy applications.

  • Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
  • Led a large Angular migration from version 13 to 21 while normal product delivery continued.
  • Developed modular TypeScript UI systems and maintained GitLab CI/CD for linting, type checks, 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 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

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