Jake Ortega

Staff Frontend Engineer | Angular Architecture and UI Platforms

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 6 1775 0459 contact@jakeortega.nl

jakeortega.nl linkedin.com/in/ortegajake00 github.com/jortega0033

Profile

Staff-level Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience shaping frontend architecture, shared UI platforms, and engineering standards across enterprise products.

Designed and built a 63-component cross-framework design system and led the incremental modernization of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21.

Deep hands-on experience with Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, NgRx, Web Components, accessibility, secure frontend boundaries, testing, CI/CD, performance, and production support.

Provides technical direction through architecture decisions, standards, code reviews, mentoring, and close collaboration with product, design, backend, and platform teams.

Skills

Angular and Reactive Systems: Angular 20/21, Angular Signals, TypeScript, JavaScript, RxJS, NgRx, Dependency Injection, Routing, Forms, Change Detection

Architecture and Standards: Frontend Architecture, Design Systems, Web Components, Design Tokens, Micro Frontends, Code Evolution, Technical Roadmaps, Engineering Standards

Quality and Web Standards: Accessibility, Web Performance, Secure Frontend Boundaries, Playwright, Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma

Delivery and Leadership: CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Code Reviews, Technical Mentoring, Cross-team Collaboration, Production Support, Agile Delivery

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture, shared UI governance, and hands-on delivery across Angular, React, Vue, and Web Components.

Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system used by Angular, React, and Vue products.
Set accessibility baselines, component standards, CI-gated design-token governance, documentation, and review practices for the shared platform.
Built an Angular, Hono, and Postgres chat platform with a custom streaming widget and clear frontend-to-service boundaries.

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

Angular modernization, technical direction, and production delivery across enterprise web, mobile, and analytics products.

Led the incremental migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 while normal feature delivery continued.
Introduced Signals, standalone components, modern template control flow, and clearer reactive state patterns with RxJS and NgRx.
Worked across frontend and backend boundaries with TypeScript, SCSS, NestJS, PostgreSQL, and REST APIs.

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.

Frontend Developer

DXC Technology

Jan 2020 - Sep 2021

Developed Angular customer portals and React reporting interfaces for insurance and wellness workflows.

Full Stack Engineer

RCG Global Services

Jun 2017 - Jan 2020

Modernized booking and ticketing systems, moving legacy flows into modern Web Component single-page applications.

Full Stack Engineer

Zone Laser Support Systems

Feb 2016 - Jun 2017

Developed real-time leaderboard systems with AngularJS and WebSocket streams.

Personal Projects

AgentDock

github.com/jortega0033/agentdock

Built the typed SDK, provider adapters, event protocol, and loopback security boundary used by Open Vacancy Radar and Pipenzo.

Electron | TypeScript | React | Fastify | Zod

GrabPitik

grabpitik.ph

Built the marketplace, license-plate photo search, image-processing service, admin workflows, and Xendit payment-integrity checks.

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.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013