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Jake Ortega

Senior Angular Front-End Developer

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

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building enterprise and customer-facing web applications with Angular, TypeScript, HTML, and SCSS.

Led a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 while normal feature delivery continued, including hands-on work with Angular 20, Signals, standalone components, routing, services, RxJS, and state management.

Experienced in reusable component systems, REST API integration, responsive design, accessibility, browser compatibility, performance, automated testing, CI/CD, and production incident support.

Worked across booking and ticketing, transport, insurance, analytics, e-commerce, mobile, and internal business platforms in cross-functional Agile teams.

Skills

Angular Engineering: Angular 20, Angular Signals, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, RxJS, NgRx, Routing, Services, Standalone Components

Architecture and UX: Enterprise SPAs, Component Architecture, Design Systems, Web Components, Responsive Design, Accessibility, Cross-browser Compatibility, Performance

Integration and Platforms: REST APIs, WebSockets, Asynchronous UI, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Java, C#, Azure, AWS

Testing and Delivery: Jasmine, Karma, Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, Git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Code Reviews, Agile/Scrum, Production Support

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Angular delivery, reusable UI architecture, and end-to-end ownership across enterprise products.

  • Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system used by Angular, React, and Vue products, with accessibility engineering and CI-gated design-token governance.
  • Owned the frontend and UX rebuild of an expense-management platform with one backend engineer, integrating secure document attachments and PDF export with existing APIs.
  • Built an Angular, Hono, and Postgres chat platform with a custom streaming widget and document retrieval through an internal AI gateway.

Stencil | Web Components | Angular | React | Vue | Next.js | TypeScript | Hono | Tailwind CSS | Playwright | Vitest

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

Large-scale Angular modernization and feature delivery across enterprise web, mobile, and analytics applications.

  • Led the incremental migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 while the team continued normal feature delivery.
  • Worked hands-on with Angular 20 and 21, Signals, standalone components, modern template control flow, routing, services, NgRx, and RxJS.
  • Built reusable TypeScript and SCSS components for responsive, data-heavy enterprise workflows and integrated them with REST APIs and backend services.

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 customer-facing booking and ticketing flows, moving legacy experiences into responsive 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

GrabPitik

grabpitik.ph

Built 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

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

Built a local-first Electron app for vacancy discovery, IND sponsor checks, CV preparation, and application tracking.

Electron | TypeScript | React | SQLite

Built 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.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

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013