Jake Ortega
Senior Frontend Engineer | React, TypeScript and Enterprise UI
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
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