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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React Native, Expo, React and TypeScript

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping polished production interfaces across React Native, Expo, React, TypeScript, Angular, and design systems.

Strong fit for design-focused mobile product work that needs interaction polish, responsive behavior, maintainable architecture, testing discipline, and close collaboration with design.

Built and released React Native/Expo apps, AI-assisted interfaces, local Electron products, customer-facing portals, and full-stack product workflows with payments and backend integration.

Comfortable owning features end to end, working in mature codebases, improving UI quality, and balancing speed with production standards.

Skills

Mobile & Web: React Native, Expo, React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, Responsive UI, Motion-minded UI, Product UX

Frontend Craft: Design Systems, Accessibility, Component Architecture, State Management, Performance Optimization, Cross-browser UI

Backend & Apps: Node.js, NestJS, Hono, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, WebSockets, Firebase, Electron

Quality: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Production Support

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture, product UX, design systems, and AI-assisted application delivery.

  • Owned the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform, improving document-heavy workflows, attachments, and PDF export with a strong focus on interaction details.
  • Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system distributed to React, Angular, and Vue products, including accessibility engineering and CI-gated token governance.
  • Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform with a custom streaming widget, document retrieval, Hono, and PostgreSQL.

Stencil | Web Components | Angular | React | Vue | Next.js | TypeScript | Hono | Tailwind CSS | Playwright | Vitest

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

React Native, React, Angular modernization, analytics-heavy UI, and production feature delivery.

  • Built React web and companion React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
  • Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-heavy reporting flow 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.

Angular | Angular Signals | React | React Native | NestJS | PostgreSQL | TypeScript | SCSS | NgRx | RxJS | GitLab CI/CD

Frontend Developer

Accenture

Sep 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Developed React Native mobile experiences and Angular and React interfaces for business-travel card workflows.

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

Revada

Mobile-first social driving app, early stage: capture and review drives with live GPS telemetry, share sessions with a crew, and track progress on leaderboards. React Native/Expo mobile client, a TanStack Start web admin, Firebase backend.

React Native | Expo | TanStack Start | TypeScript | Firebase

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013