Jake Ortega
Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript and Product UX
Profile
Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production React, TypeScript, React Native, Web Components, design systems, APIs, and high-traffic product workflows.
Strong fit for fintech and rewards products that need refined UI, reliable frontend architecture, clean state boundaries, and careful product judgment.
Built consumer-facing and workflow-heavy applications across web and mobile, including booking, payments-adjacent flows, reporting platforms, and real-time interfaces.
Comfortable setting frontend standards, reviewing AI-assisted code, mentoring engineers, and turning ambiguous product direction into maintainable implementation.
Skills
Frontend and UX: React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Redux Patterns, Tailwind CSS, Design Systems, Responsive UI
Product Engineering: Frontend Architecture, API Integration, State Management, Performance Optimization, Accessibility, Core Web Vitals, Technical Design
Platform and Data: Node.js, Hono, NestJS, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, REST APIs, Authentication Flows, Docker
Testing and Delivery: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jira, Claude, Codex, AI Code Review
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
iO Digital
Feb 2026 - Present
Frontend architecture, product UX, design systems, AI-assisted delivery, and production-grade implementation.
- Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system distributed across React, Angular, and Vue products with accessibility and CI-gated token governance.
- 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, balancing UX, retrieval quality, and production constraints.
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-heavy, and AI-assisted applications.
- Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
- Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 while the team continued normal feature delivery.
- Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-heavy 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
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
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
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
Presentor
rideword.appFree-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