Waqas Safdar (@waqassafdar) – WordPress user profile

Bio

👨‍💻 This is Waqas Safdar, a lead product engineer with 3.5+ years of experience specializing in custom development, data analytics, and emerging AI technologies. I’m the creator of the popular “SEO Repair Kit” plugin (38,000+ downloads), empowering 2,000+ websites with smart SEO insights and optimization tools.

My portfolio spans global projects such as advanced web/app development, demonstrating my ability to deliver user-focused digital products across diverse tech stacks.

I’m also a winner of HBL P@SHA ICT AWARDS© 2025 and an active contributor to the tech community. From volunteering at WordCamp Lahore to supporting innovation at Startup Grind Layyah and FutureFest Roadshow, I value collaboration and knowledge sharing.

My GitHub showcases 2,200+ open-source contributions and experiments in WordPress and AI, reflecting my passion for real-world problem-solving through clean code and creative thinking. 🌟

Key Skills
✨ Advanced WordPress development
📊 Data Analytics & Visualization
📈 SEO optimization tools
🌍 Open-source contributions (GitHub: cswaqaas)

Interests

🌟 open-source
👨‍💻 Coding
📊 Data Analytics
🚀 Innovation
🎤 Volunteering & community engagement

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '26 Plugin Developer

Current Job

⚙️ Product Engineer

May 2022 – Present

🏢 TorontoDigits

Product Engineer at TorontoDigits

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

3contributions

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medium3

score3

Last 90 days

5contributions

high0

medium5

score5

Last 12 months

7contributions

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medium6

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Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release

Time commitment

5 hours per week

TorontoDigits 5 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 05 Mon · 06:45

Forums med

Posted a reply to Beyond Basic SEO: A Powerful Technical SEO Toolkit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks a lot @sajjadhussain2509 for spending the time to provide such detailed feedback! Thanks for…

September 2026

Sep 28 Mon · 18:49

Forums med

Posted a reply to Great SEO tool with a unique Spam Monitor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you so much, @saadiqbal, for taking the time to share your experience with SEO…

Sep 22 Tue · 17:08

Forums med

Posted a reply to One of the next generation SEO product, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you so much @farrukhhassan for your detailed feedback and recommendation! We’re really glad to…

Sep 11 Fri · 06:10

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Posted a reply to My GO-TO-SEO Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks so much, @ahmedhassansheikh, for sharing your experience with SEO Repair Kit. We really appreciate…

Sep 07 Mon · 15:34

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Posted a reply to Some strings in this file are hard-coded and untranslatable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @itapress, Thank you for reporting this and for pointing us to the affected file.…

May 2026

May 21 Thu · 00:33

Meta high

Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @huzaifaalmesbah @narenin @azharderaiya @riko910 @Bhavik Panchal @dhavalkapadane @vishitshah @jigar9998 @vaibhavsweb @hage @shailu25 @Valer1e…

May 15 Fri · 18:01

Polyglots med

Suggested 63 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

June 2024

Jun 22 Sat · 18:19

Forums med

Created a topic, Google Login Issue in “Search Console Plugin”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm facing an "Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch" when …