Our enterprise SEO leadership team

Marina Castellanos founded Waverider SEO in 2019 as a three person technical shop. Prior to starting the agency, she ran organic growth for a global marketplace operating at 40M monthly sessions. She guides enterprise program architecture, search governance, and executive reporting across our major engagements. Her work focuses on building sustainable search systems for complex sites. She surfs near Carlsbad every morning before reviewing client logs.

She surfs near Carlsbad every morning before reviewing client logs.

With twelve years of experience directing technical programs for retail and travel brands, Theo Nakamura leads our migration and platform transition practice. He directed a platform migration for a national retail brand with 12M annual sessions. His primary focus remains on crawl budget optimization, URL structure, and site rendering infrastructure. He restores vintage road bicycles on weekends.

He restores vintage road bicycles on weekends.

Priya Raghunathan established our agentic practice when Waverider SEO added the service in 2024. Coming from a data science background in ad tech, she engineered our proprietary agent workflows and AI visibility measurement system. Her team builds structured content frameworks that expand share of answer and LLM citations across conversational search platforms. She bakes sourdough bread using an heirloom starter.

She bakes sourdough bread using an heirloom starter.

Log file analysis, crawl budget distribution, and edge rule deployment form the core of Daniel Okafor's technical work. Before joining Waverider SEO, he worked as a backend developer at a web infrastructure firm. He builds internal tooling to automate log parsing and monitor rendering issues across large client environments. He runs trail ultramarathons in the San Gabriel Mountains.

He runs trail ultramarathons in the San Gabriel Mountains.

As a former newsroom editor, Sofia Lindqvist designs editorial systems for organizations managing massive content estates. She aligns publishing workflows with structured data models so articles remain straightforward for search crawlers and AI answer engines to process. Her team builds content guidelines that improve retrieval performance for complex enterprise sites. She collects mid century Scandinavian furniture.

She collects mid century Scandinavian furniture.

Ben Whitaker leads our analytics practice, creating attribution models, executive dashboards, and organic revenue forecasts. Previously an analyst at a financial measurement firm, he translates complex organic search telemetry into clear financial metrics for executive leadership. His reporting systems track share of answer metrics alongside traditional search performance indicators. He plays classical cello in a local community orchestra.

He plays classical cello in a local community orchestra.

Enterprise client relationships and quarterly business reviews fall under Aisha Rahman's leadership. Having managed client services at a corporate communications agency before joining our team, she ensures technical work aligns with overall business goals. She coordinates cross functional deliverables between client engineering teams and our specialists to keep complex programs on schedule. She cultivates rare orchids in her home greenhouse.

She cultivates rare orchids in her home greenhouse.

Lucas Ferreira conducts entity research, competitive audits, and internal linking architecture for enterprise accounts. Prior to joining Waverider SEO, he served as an organic growth analyst at a digital retail agency. He maps entity relationships to ensure client content structures match search intent and AI retrieval patterns across competitive verticals. He competes in amateur chess tournaments on weekends.

He competes in amateur chess tournaments on weekends.