Jake Ortega
Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript, Product Design
Profile
Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building polished production interfaces across React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, Web Components, design systems, testing, and CI/CD.
Strong fit for N1: design-minded frontend ownership, component systems, fast iteration, product taste, and side projects that show execution across AI tools, local desktop apps, and end-to-end products.
Open to relocating for an on-site New York role if sponsorship or a viable work-authorization path is available.
Skills
Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, Web Components, Tailwind CSS, Responsive UI
Product UI: Design Systems, Component Libraries, User Flows, Accessibility, Performance, Figma Handoff
AI & Data: LLM Integrations, Agentic Coding, MCP, RAG & Vector Search, Dashboards, Streaming UI
Delivery: Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, REST APIs, Docker, CI/CD, Production Support
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
iO Digital
Feb 2026 - Present
Design systems, AI interfaces, frontend architecture, and product-grade delivery.
- Designed and built io Design System, a 63-component Stencil Web Components platform with accessibility baselines, token governance, and distribution to React, Angular, and Vue.
- Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform with Angular, Hono, Postgres, custom streaming UI, and document retrieval through an internal AI gateway.
- Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and LLM-based query-intent classification.
Stencil | Web Components | Angular | React | Vue | Next.js | TypeScript | Hono | Tailwind CSS | Playwright | Vitest
Frontend Developer
Lunatech
Jan 2023 - Feb 2026
Frontend modernization, React delivery, reporting products, and AI-assisted analysis workflows.
- Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
- Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-based reporting flow with natural-language querying.
- Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 with Signals, standalone components, and modern control flow.
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
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