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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript and Product UX

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production React, TypeScript, React Native, Web Components, design systems, APIs, and high-traffic product workflows.

Strong fit for fintech and rewards products that need refined UI, reliable frontend architecture, clean state boundaries, and careful product judgment.

Built consumer-facing and workflow-heavy applications across web and mobile, including booking, payments-adjacent flows, reporting platforms, and real-time interfaces.

Comfortable setting frontend standards, reviewing AI-assisted code, mentoring engineers, and turning ambiguous product direction into maintainable implementation.

Skills

Frontend and UX: React, React Native, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Redux Patterns, Tailwind CSS, Design Systems, Responsive UI

Product Engineering: Frontend Architecture, API Integration, State Management, Performance Optimization, Accessibility, Core Web Vitals, Technical Design

Platform and Data: Node.js, Hono, NestJS, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, REST APIs, Authentication Flows, Docker

Testing and Delivery: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jira, Claude, Codex, AI Code Review

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture, product UX, design systems, AI-assisted delivery, and production-grade implementation.

  • Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system distributed across React, Angular, and Vue products with accessibility and CI-gated token governance.
  • 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.
  • Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with ranking and query-intent classification, balancing UX, retrieval quality, and production constraints.

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-heavy, and AI-assisted applications.

  • Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
  • Led the migration of a large Angular application from version 13 to 21 while the team continued normal feature delivery.
  • Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-heavy reporting flow with natural-language querying.

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 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

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 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

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

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013