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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, Next.js, TypeScript and AI Product UI

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

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

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

Electron | TypeScript | React | Fastify | Zod

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

Electron | TypeScript | React | SQLite

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