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Background

About

Website specialist and web producer — CMS migrations, production engineering, and SEO for marketing and nonprofit teams.

Portrait of Rachel Wanke

Most recently I was a Website Specialist on Centric Software's Digital Marketing team, where I oversaw website infrastructure, guided developers through sprint delivery, and turned stakeholder requests into production-ready builds — CMS modernization, Figma-to-live page work, technical SEO, and keeping a global marketing site healthy across locales.

At Centric I helped complete a WordPress → Contentful migration and stack upgrade, including an AWS Lambda / API Gateway reverse proxy so Netlify and WP Engine could share traffic during cutover, plus Google Tag Manager instrumentation, localization across 12+ languages, and documentation so content owners could publish with confidence.

I continue to serve as Senior Webmaster for the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution, redesigning the national website for modern design standards and stronger SEO, and migrating their iMIS platform from desktop toward the cloud.

Earlier, I was a Web Optimization Coordinator at CircleCI — building landing pages in Jekyll and Next.js, publishing through Contentful, and supporting go-to-market launches with production and SEO work. I bring full-stack training (React, Next.js, Node, SQL/Mongo) and earlier careers in legal and nonprofit operations to every project: clear architecture, measurable SEO, and sites teams can actually maintain. I'm currently open to full-time web production roles and freelance site work.

Capabilities

  • Front end

    React · Next.js · JavaScript · HTML / CSS / SCSS · Jekyll · PHP · TypeScript

  • CMS & migrations

    Contentful · WordPress · WP Engine · Netlify · iMIS

  • Production & SEO

    Technical SEO · Google Tag Manager · Localization · Landing pages · SEO Audits · Website Optimization · Website Refresh

  • Backend & infra

    Node.js · AWS · GraphQL · RESTful APIs · AI Automation · MySQL · MongoDB

Experience

Web production leadership across SaaS marketing sites and a national nonprofit — with a résumé on LinkedIn for the full history.

  1. Website Specialist

    Centric Software

    Mar 2023 — Jul 2026 · Arlington, VA

    • Completed WordPress → Contentful CMS migration and dual-stack cutover for the global marketing site
    • Architected AWS Lambda / API Gateway reverse proxy so Netlify and WP Engine shared traffic without downtime
    • Led developer sprints — planning, hour tracking, and delivery quality across web requests
    • Shipped Figma-to-production components and maintained 12+ language locales with technical SEO hygiene
    • Instrumented GTM, documented architecture, and unblocked stakeholder page builds at production speed

  2. Senior Webmaster

    National Society of the Children of the American RevolutionVolunteer

    Apr 2022 — Present · Washington, DC

    • Lead national website redesign: visual system, readability, and SEO for a public-facing nonprofit
    • Drive iMIS desktop → cloud migration planning while keeping content operations running
    • Own ongoing publishing, brand updates, and information architecture improvements

  3. Web Optimization Coordinator

    CircleCI

    Oct 2021 — Dec 2022

    • Built and maintained marketing landing pages in Jekyll and Next.js for product go-to-market launches
    • Published through GitHub + Contentful; partnered with web production on Agile / Jira delivery
    • Improved technical SEO — 404 remediation, backlinks, and production bug fixes on the live site

Education

  • George Washington University

    Full Stack Development Certificate

    2020 — 2021

  • General Assembly

    UX / UI Design

    2017

  • Elon University

    Bachelor of Arts

    2005 — 2009

View résumé on LinkedIn