Judy Galani
Web development leader. Product thinker. AI tool builder.
I lead web teams that ship. Enterprise WordPress at scale, internal AI tools that make marketers faster, and a product background that keeps the work tied to business results.
Professional Story
About
I’ve spent my career where product, marketing, and engineering meet. I started out writing code, moved into product management and digital leadership, and came back to hands-on engineering because building things is the part I love.
Today I lead web development for a portfolio of global shipping and logistics brands. My team runs multi-brand, multilingual WordPress properties, and I build AI-powered tools that let marketers launch pages on their own instead of waiting in a dev queue. I’m at my best turning messy requests into systems: clear intake, reusable components, and automation that frees the team for work that matters.
Timeline
Experience
Sr. Manager, Web Development
- Leads and mentors a team of web developers building and maintaining WordPress sites across ShipStation, Stamps.com, Metapack, and other Auctane brands.
- Built ShipShape, an AI-assisted page-building suite that lets marketers launch landing pages, blog content, and event pages without a developer.
- Built a security triage agent on GitHub Actions, the Claude API, and MCP that automates dependency review across brand repositories.
- Primary point of contact for stakeholders: requirements gathering, backlog refinement, intake routing, and technical training.
- Led multilingual rollout across brands with WPML, plus ongoing performance and accessibility remediation.
Sr. WordPress Developer
- Grew year-over-year site traffic 50% and monthly recurring revenue 40% after redesigning and rearchitecting wpengine.com.
- Built custom applications, themes, and plugins within an agile development team.
- Optimized WordPress properties for performance and security, working across marketing, sales, and design.
Digital Strategist
- Owned the WordPress site end to end, covering hosting, development, and ongoing improvements.
- Ran A/B testing, KPI measurement, and web analytics reporting through Google Analytics and Pardot.
- Built marketing workflows connecting the site to CRM, Eventbrite, search, email, and social to convert and nurture leads.
GM, Digital
- Designed, built, and maintained a scalable WordPress CMS serving 100+ internal users and delivering geo-located content to 22 hyper-local news markets.
- Rebuilt advertising operations on responsive, rich-media software, increasing ad impressions 300%.
- Grew traffic 50% through new site architecture and design, SEO, email, and community brand campaigns.
Product Manager
- Owned design deliverables including sitemaps, wireframes, and mockups for a scheduling platform used by over one million restaurant employees.
- Led usability testing and focus groups, turning feedback into roadmap decisions.
- Partnered with executives, sales, engineering, and QA to deliver data-driven applications on schedule.
Earlier Career
- Product Strategist, XO Group — owned product roadmaps for TheKnot.com, TheNest.com, and TheBump.com, led an incubator team building a new marketplace search application, and launched multiple mobile apps.
- Director, Web Development, The Knot — managed a team of web developers and owned technical strategy and delivery across TheKnot.com, TheNest.com, and TheBump.com.
Achievements
Recognition
Top 50 Microsoft Partner
Ranked #11 on fiftyfiveandfive’s 2017 Top 50 Microsoft Partners Inbound Marketing Excellence list, for work on powerpivotpro.com.
Best Newspaper Website
Second place in the National Newspaper Association’s 2016 Better Newspaper Contest, for communityimpact.com.
#2 Business App
Grew the HotSchedules shift scheduling app to #2 across all apps in the Business category.
Specialization
What I Do
Web Engineering
WordPress at enterprise scale: custom Gutenberg blocks, ACF, WPML, Kadence, plus performance, Core Web Vitals, and accessibility.
AI and Automation
Internal AI tools on the Claude API and MCP, GitHub Actions workflows, and agents that take repetitive work off the team.
Leadership & Product
Running dev teams, intake and prioritization, roadmaps, and translating between marketing and engineering.
Skills
Toolkit
BuildWordPressPHPMySQLJavaScriptReactjQueryNodeHTML/CSS/SCSSTailwindGit
AI & WorkflowsClaude APIMCPClaude CodeGitHub Actions
PlatformsWP EngineGitHubContentfulFigmaACFWPML
Marketing OpsGoogle AnalyticsTag ManagerHubSpotPardotA/B testingSEO/SEMe-commerce
Ways of WorkingAgileScrumJiraConfluenceClickUpUX & persona creation
Education & Certifications
Intake & Opportunities
Let’s Talk
Open to conversations about web leadership, WordPress engineering, and AI tooling roles.