Jake Ortega
Senior Frontend Engineer | React Native, TypeScript and Mobile Product UX
Profile
Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production React, React Native, TypeScript, Angular, and design-system platforms.
Strong fit for mobile healthcare product work that needs polished UX, reliable frontend architecture, accessibility, API collaboration, and product ownership.
Built React Native apps for workforce insights and personal mobile products, plus AI-assisted interfaces including streaming chat, document retrieval, and schema-validated vision workflows.
Experienced shipping across regulated and customer-facing contexts, including insurance, wellness, financial planning, and document-heavy product flows.
Skills
Mobile and Frontend: React Native, React, TypeScript, Expo, JavaScript, Angular, Next.js, Responsive UI, Mobile UX
Product UX: Accessibility, Design Systems, Component Libraries, Healthcare UX, Financial Workflows, Document Workflows, Product Delivery
AI and APIs: LLM Integrations, Gemini, Streaming UI, AI-Assisted Development, REST APIs, WebSockets, Node.js, Hono, PostgreSQL
Quality and Delivery: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, CI/CD, Code Reviews, Production Support
Experience
Senior Frontend Engineer
iO Digital
Feb 2026 - Present
AI-assisted product delivery, frontend architecture, design systems, and polished customer-facing UX.
- Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform, shipping document-heavy workflows with secure attachments and PDF export.
- 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.
- Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system used across React, Angular, and Vue products, including accessibility engineering and CI-gated token governance.
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, and AI-assisted 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 form-heavy reporting 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
- Built Angular and React interfaces for business-travel card workflows used by business owners and employees.
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