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Jake Ortega

Senior Product Engineer | React, TypeScript and AI Workflow UX

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend and Product Engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping React, TypeScript, Angular, React Native, and design-system products used in production.

Strong fit for Sequence because recent work combines AI-assisted workflows, document-heavy finance operations, customer-facing dashboards, and end-to-end product ownership.

Built interfaces for expense management, travel-card workflows, insurance portals, reporting systems, and AI chat/document retrieval products with clear attention to UX detail.

Experienced with Playwright, Vitest, CI/CD, Sentry-style production support, API collaboration, and frontend architecture in lean cross-functional teams.

Skills

Frontend Product: React, TypeScript, TanStack Query, Jotai-style State, JavaScript, Angular, Next.js, Responsive UI, Product UX

AI and Workflow UX: AI Workflows, Human-in-the-loop Interfaces, Streaming UI, Document Retrieval, Workflow Dashboards, LLM Integrations

Finance and Data: Billing Workflows, Expense Management, Approvals, RBAC Concepts, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, BigQuery-adjacent Analytics

Quality and Delivery: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Accessibility, Design Systems, CI/CD, Code Reviews, Production Support

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

AI-assisted product delivery, frontend architecture, design systems, and revenue-adjacent workflow UX.

  • Owned the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform, shipping secure attachments, approval-friendly document flows, and PDF export with one backend engineer.
  • Built io Chat, an embeddable AI chat-widget platform with Angular, Hono, PostgreSQL, 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

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