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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, Next.js and Scalable Platforms

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

Profile

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

Built customer portals, booking and ticketing flows, business-travel products, analytics interfaces, marketplaces, and internal platforms used in production.

Experienced in reusable component architecture, design systems, monorepo-based products, REST API integration, accessibility, performance, automated testing, and production support.

Works closely with product, design, backend, and other frontend engineers to turn business requirements into maintainable features and dependable releases.

Skills

Frontend Applications: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, Responsive UI, Accessibility, Cross-browser Compatibility

Architecture and Scale: Component Architecture, Design Systems, Web Components, Monorepo Architecture, Micro Frontends, REST APIs, Client State, Frontend Performance

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

Product Experience: Booking and Ticketing, Customer Portals, Business Travel, Marketplaces, Analytics, Mobile Products, Enterprise SaaS

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

React and Next.js product delivery alongside shared component architecture and cross-framework frontend platforms.

  • Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of a React expense-management platform with one backend engineer, including secure document attachments and PDF export.
  • Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with a ranking layer and query-intent classification, improving how users worked with complex results.
  • Designed and built a 63-component Web Components design system used by React, Angular, and Vue products, with accessibility checks and governed design tokens.

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

Frontend Developer

Lunatech

Jan 2023 - Feb 2026

Frontend delivery across React web, React Native mobile, enterprise platforms, analytics, and production support.

  • Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
  • Developed modular, testable UI systems in TypeScript and SCSS with reusable components and clear separation of concerns.
  • Worked with REST APIs, NestJS, PostgreSQL, 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