Senior front-end developer

I build web products that stay fast as they scale.

Seventeen years across Angular, WordPress, PHP, cloud infrastructure, and polished product UI.

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Jacobo Ortiz Engineering for the web since 2006

Enterprise Angular

Custom WordPress

TypeScript systems

Cloud infrastructure

Performance engineering

Software, built with care.

I work where interface quality, architecture, and real-world operations meet.

Most of my career has focused on front-end systems used every day, especially Angular applications and custom WordPress platforms. I am equally comfortable shaping a component API, profiling a slow view, integrating a service, or tracing an issue through the server that supports it.

The goal is not just to ship. It is to leave behind software that another team can understand, maintain, and extend with confidence.

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One engineer, the full delivery path.

Focused expertise for products that need both polished interfaces and dependable foundations.

Product front-end

Complex interfaces that remain understandable.

Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, component architecture, accessibility, and performance for long-lived applications.

Web platforms

WordPress without the shortcuts.

Custom themes, plugins, APIs, migrations, security, and infrastructure built for the actual business.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs
  • WooCommerce

Systems

Integration from browser to server.

Node.js, OAuth, GraphQL, LMS workflows, payment systems, and service boundaries that teams can trust.

Fast is a feature.

Performance treated as product quality.

Profiling, rendering strategy, asset delivery, caching, and Core Web Vitals considered from the start.

Operations

Production ownership beyond deployment.

Linux, Docker, Apache, Nginx, Azure, SSL, CI/CD, migrations, monitoring, and careful incident recovery.

Selected project systems.

Representative work across enterprise applications, content platforms, learning systems, and commerce tooling.

01

Enterprise Angular applications

Large business interfaces built around reusable components, predictable state, REST services, and maintainable TypeScript.

  • Angular
  • RxJS
  • TypeScript
  • REST APIs

02

Custom WordPress platforms

Purpose-built themes, plugins, integrations, and hosting workflows that turn WordPress into a dependable product platform.

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • APIs

03

Learning platform integrations

Authentication, enrollment, custom modules, and enterprise connections for secure, scalable Moodle experiences.

  • Moodle
  • OAuth
  • PHP
  • JWT

04

Inventory and commerce tooling

Inventory, point-of-sale, kiosk, and pricing workflows designed for speed, resilience, and real operational use.

  • Angular
  • Node.js
  • MySQL
  • Offline-first

Experience across products, platforms, and teams.

Seventeen years of hands-on engineering, from independent client work to enterprise product teams.

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Independent software engineering for clients who need custom web development, UI/UX guidance, server administration, infrastructure, and long-term technical support.

Trusted for the details that make software last.

“His solutions are clean, easy to understand, and carefully documented. He is always looking for better runtime and maintainability.”
Guillermo OrtizSenior Front-End Developer
“He architected the solution properly instead of choosing quick fixes, which saved us significant time later.”
David JonesPrincipal, Empire of America

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