Jake Ortega
Senior Frontend Engineer | React, Next.js, TypeScript and AI Product UI
Profile
Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping production interfaces across React, Next.js, TypeScript, Angular, React Native, Web Components, and design systems.
Strong fit for AI-native product platforms that need fast iteration, clean frontend architecture, reusable components, and polished cross-device user flows.
Built AI-facing interfaces including a streaming chat widget, document-retrieval workflows, AI-assisted search, and local agent tools around Claude Code and Codex.
Comfortable owning features from product and design discussion through implementation, review, testing, and production support in distributed teams.
Skills
Frontend Product: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, React Native, Angular, Web Components, Responsive UI, Tailwind CSS
Architecture and UX: Frontend Architecture, Component Libraries, Design Systems, Performance Optimization, Accessibility, State Management, Cross-Device UI
AI and Platform: LLM Integrations, AI-Assisted Development, Streaming UI, MCP, RAG and Vector Search, Node.js, Hono, PostgreSQL
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 product delivery, and production UX.
- Extended a multi-engineer Next.js candidate-search product with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and an LLM-based query-intent classifier.
- Built io Chat, an Angular, Hono, and Postgres AI chat-widget platform with a custom streaming widget and document retrieval through an internal AI gateway.
- 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.
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 Angular, React, React Native, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Built React web and React Native applications for workforce insights, reporting, and cross-device access.
- Built a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, replacing a form-based reporting flow with natural-language querying.
- Led a large Angular migration from v13 to v21 with Signals, standalone components, modern control flow, RxJS, and NgRx patterns.
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/agentdockBuilt 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-radarBuilt a local-first Electron app for vacancy discovery, IND sponsor checks, CV preparation, and application tracking.
Electron | TypeScript | React | SQLite
Pipenzo
github.com/jortega0033/pipenzoBuilt 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.appReleased 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.appReleased 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.phBuilt 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