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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React and Component Systems

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

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building responsive web and mobile products with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and SCSS.

Turns designs and product requirements into accurate, reusable interfaces for customer portals, business platforms, reporting tools, and mobile applications.

Experienced in React component architecture, client-side state, REST API integration, accessibility, cross-browser behavior, performance, automated testing, and production support.

Works directly with designers, backend engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders from early requirements through review, release, and maintenance.

Skills

React Engineering: React, React Hooks, Context API, TypeScript, JavaScript ES6+, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, Responsive UI, Cross-browser Compatibility

UI Architecture: Reusable Components, Component Libraries, Design Systems, Web Components, Design Tokens, Client State, REST APIs, Accessibility, Frontend Performance

Testing and Tooling: Jest, Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Vite, npm, Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD

Delivery: Pixel-Accurate Implementation, Code Reviews, Debugging, Production Support, Agile/Scrum, Technical Planning, Backend Collaboration

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

React product delivery, component architecture, and accurate implementation of shared UI standards.

  • Designed and built a 63-component Web Components design system used by React, Angular, and Vue products, translating component specifications and design tokens into consistent production interfaces.
  • Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of a React expense-management platform with one backend engineer, including responsive workflows, secure document attachments, and PDF export.
  • Extended a multi-engineer Next.js and React candidate-search product and worked through complex UI behavior with product and backend teams.

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

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

React web and mobile delivery across reporting, responsive interfaces, API integration, and production support.

  • Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
  • Developed reusable, testable UI components in TypeScript and SCSS with clear state handling and responsive behavior.
  • Worked with REST APIs, NestJS, PostgreSQL, designers, and product stakeholders to carry features from requirements into production.

Angular | Angular Signals | React | React Native | NestJS | PostgreSQL | TypeScript | SCSS | NgRx | RxJS | GitLab CI/CD

Frontend Developer

Accenture

Sep 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Built React and Angular 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

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

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 systems, moving legacy flows into responsive Web Component single-page applications.

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

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

Presentor

rideword.app

Free-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

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

Electron | TypeScript | React | Fastify | Zod

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013