Jake Ortega
Senior Frontend Engineer | Real-Time React, TypeScript and Product Systems
Profile
Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production interfaces across React, TypeScript, React Native, Web Components, APIs, WebSockets, design systems, and CI/CD.
Strong fit for data-dense, security-sensitive product surfaces that need fast rendering, clear UX, reliable state boundaries, and disciplined engineering tradeoffs.
Built real-time and workflow-heavy applications including streaming AI chat, WebSocket-driven leaderboards, React Native mobile experiences, and component systems used across multiple product stacks.
Hands-on with AI-assisted development and code review, using tools like Claude and Codex while validating generated work for correctness, performance, maintainability, and security.
Skills
Frontend and Product: React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Web Components, Design Systems, PWA Patterns
Real-Time Systems: WebSockets, Streaming UI, Performance Optimization, State Management, API Integration, Responsive Data-Dense UI, Core Web Vitals
Security and Platform: Authentication Flows, Frontend Architecture, Secure IPC, REST APIs, Node.js, Hono, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Docker
Testing and AI: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Claude, Codex, AI Code Evaluation, Prompt Engineering
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
iO Digital
Feb 2026 - Present
Frontend architecture, design systems, AI-assisted products, streaming UI, and product-grade delivery.
- Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system distributed across React, Angular, and Vue products with accessibility engineering 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
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
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
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