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