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Jake Ortega

Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript and Enterprise UI

Vlaardingen, Netherlands +31 617750459 contact@jakeortega.nl

Profile

Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production web applications across React, TypeScript, Angular, Web Components, and enterprise design systems.

Strong fit for enterprise React work involving API contracts, secure integration, performance, accessibility, testing, deployment, and modernization of existing applications.

Experienced collaborating with backend teams across Java, C#, .NET-adjacent APIs, Node.js, Azure, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Firebase, GCP, and AWS-hosted systems.

Comfortable owning features from requirements through implementation, code review, production support, and coordination with distributed or offshore teams.

Skills

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

Architecture: Frontend Architecture, API Integration, State Management, Performance Optimization, Security Basics, Legacy Modernization, Code Reviews

Backend and Cloud: Node.js, NestJS, Hono, REST APIs, C# API Integration, Azure, AWS, GCP, SQL Server, PostgreSQL

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

Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer

iO Digital

Feb 2026 - Present

React, Angular, Web Components, design systems, AI-assisted products, and production frontend delivery.

  • Drove the frontend and UX rebuild of a React expense-management platform, delivering secure document attachments, PDF export integration, and production-ready workflows with a backend engineer.
  • 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

Enterprise frontend modernization across React, Angular, 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 using Angular Material and accessible frontend patterns.

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