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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | SaaS, Design Systems and Automotive Product UI

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl
jakeortega.nllinkedin.com/in/ortegajake00github.com/jortega0033

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping production SaaS interfaces across React, TypeScript, Angular, Web Components, design systems, and API-driven product workflows.

Strong fit for automotive and operations software, with experience in marketplaces, payments, reporting, scheduling, mobile workflows, and customer-facing product systems.

Built reusable component systems, performance-minded interfaces, AI-assisted tools, and production workflows that balance usability, maintainability, and fast delivery.

Comfortable owning features from product requirements through implementation, testing, rollout, and production support in distributed teams.

Skills

Frontend Product: React, TypeScript, Angular, Next.js, Web Components, Responsive UI, Tailwind CSS, SCSS, Design Systems

SaaS and Operations: Frontend Architecture, Component Libraries, Accessibility, Performance Optimization, API Integration, Analytics Workflows, Payments UI

Platform: Node.js, NestJS, Hono, PostgreSQL, Firebase, GCP, REST APIs, WebSockets, Authentication Flows

Quality and Delivery: Playwright, Vitest, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Production Support

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

Frontend architecture, design systems, AI-assisted products, and production SaaS delivery.

  • Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of a React expense-management platform, shipping document-heavy workflows with secure attachments and PDF export.
  • Designed and built a 63-component Stencil Web Components design system distributed to React, Angular, and Vue with accessibility engineering and CI-gated token governance.
  • Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and an LLM-based query-intent classifier.

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 a large Angular migration from v13 to v21 with Signals, standalone components, modern control flow, RxJS, and NgRx patterns.
  • 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

AgentDock

github.com/jortega0033/agentdock

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

Electron | TypeScript | React | Fastify | Zod

Open Vacancy Radar

github.com/jortega0033/open-vacancy-radar

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

Electron | TypeScript | React | SQLite

Pipenzo

github.com/jortega0033/pipenzo

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

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

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of the East

Jun 2009 - Mar 2013