A senior WordPress developer with over seven years building, optimising and maintaining advanced websites for businesses worldwide.
I specialise in custom WordPress development, WooCommerce stores, ACF-powered dynamic websites, Elementor Pro builds, headless architectures, and technical SEO. My focus is simple — clean code, fast performance, strong security, and conversion-focused design.
From Figma to WordPress, complex API integrations, speed optimisation, Core Web Vitals improvements, and ongoing maintenance — I build scalable digital solutions that help brands grow and lead in their industry. I work directly with founders, in-house teams and agencies; no project managers in the middle, no language barriers.
I believe a website earns its weight when it's fast, findable, and frictionless. Performance is a feature. SEO is architecture. Design is engineering. Everything else is decoration.
— SaqibStarted as a freelance WordPress developer. First ten sites for local SMEs — fast, simple, on time. Found the craft.
Specialised in WooCommerce. Built 30+ custom checkout flows and subscription stores. First five-figure project shipped.
Hit Top-Rated on Upwork. First US, UK and AU clients. Joined the 50+ shipped club. Moved fully remote.
Expanded into Webflow and headless WordPress (Next.js + WPGraphQL). First SaaS marketing site at scale.
Doubled down on Core Web Vitals. Average +42 PSI uplift per project. First $25K engagement booked.
Crossed 100 projects shipped. Built a maintenance practice — 14 brands on monthly retainer.
180+ projects, 220+ reviews, 4.9★ avg. Selectively taking on 2 new builds per quarter.
Years of practice on the tools below. The numbers are honest — only listed if I've shipped real production work in it.
Six focused engagements. Each is scoped, fixed-fee, and shipped against a written success metric — no surprises, no scope creep, no hourly billing.
Bespoke themes, custom plugins, ACF-driven dynamic builds, and headless WordPress when the project calls for it. The kind of WP work that doesn't fall apart at scale.
From product setup to optimised checkout flows — high-converting WooCommerce stores tuned for growth, retention and seamless user experience.
Pixel-perfect conversion from Figma to WordPress or Webflow — fully responsive, SEO-ready, with clean structured code and smooth animations.
Improve rankings via technical audits, schema setup, structured data, internal linking architecture, and on-page best practices that compound over time.
90+ PageSpeed scores, sustained. LCP, CLS, INP under target. Real performance budgets enforced from the build — not bolted on after launch.
Ongoing updates, backups, malware protection, performance monitoring, uptime watching, and incident response. Keep your site secure, stable, and earning, 24/7.
Cinematic showroom, instant checkout.
An inherited site with 4.2s LCP, no schema, and a checkout that lost 38% of carts on mobile. The brand needed a flagship-tier experience that could compete with European dealerships, ship in two months, and not break under traffic spikes.
"We've worked with three agencies before Saqib. He shipped more in eight weeks than they did in eight months — and the site has held up beautifully through every campaign since."
Projects delivered across e-commerce, SaaS, cybersecurity, education, real estate and fintech — each engineered for speed, conversion and long-term scalability.
Goals, audience, competitors, content architecture and success metrics — written, agreed, signed.
Wireframes → high-fidelity Figma → interactive prototype. Every screen agreed before build starts.
Clean, semantic, accessible code. CMS for non-technical edits. Performance budgets from day one.
QA, deploy, monitor, iterate. SEO and performance reviews every 30 days for the first quarter.
Fixed fees, written scope, weekly demos. Pick the engagement that fits where your business is right now.
A complete marketing site for founders who need to show up serious in 4 weeks.
The full-stack rebuild for brands that want their site to be their best salesperson.
Embedded engineering for teams that ship constantly — like having a senior dev on call.
Not sure which? Send a brief and I'll recommend an engagement — usually within 24 hours, always with a fixed fee.
"Saqib delivered a detail-oriented, quality-focused build and exceeded our expectations on every checkpoint. The rare engineering talent we keep on retainer."
"Completed every campaign quickly. Great work, solid expertise across design and dev. We've kept him on retainer ever since."
"Very professional, transparent and accountable. Delivered exactly what we needed, smooth, on-time, no surprises."
"Best technical SEO work we've had in years. Doubled organic traffic in 5 months and held it. Highly recommend to anyone serious."
"Three agencies before Saqib. He shipped more in eight weeks than they did in eight months — and it's held up beautifully since."
"He works like a senior in-house dev. Pushes back on bad ideas, explains the why, and ships. We've trusted him for 3 years."
"We doubled bookings in a quarter after the rebuild. The site genuinely became our best salesperson. Strong recommend."
"Communication is what won me over. Slack-fast replies, weekly Looms, monthly reports. Felt like a partnership, not a contract."
Marketing sites ship in 3–5 weeks. Larger WooCommerce or custom builds run 6–10 weeks. You'll get an exact week-by-week plan after the discovery call, and weekly Loom updates throughout.
Yes — frequently. I integrate cleanly with in-house design, content and dev teams, and I'm comfortable in Slack, Linear, Jira, GitHub, ClickUp, or whatever your team uses. I've embedded with agencies as a senior WP/Webflow lead for months at a time.
Monthly retainers cover updates, backups, security, performance monitoring, uptime alerts, and a defined number of content / feature hours. Reports go out every 30 days with a clear changelog. Cancel anytime with 14 days notice.
Most projects fall between $4.8K and $25K depending on scope. Maintenance retainers start at $400/month, full Studio Retainer at $2,400/month. Always fixed-fee, never hourly surprises. See the Packages section for plans.
I'm based in Karachi (PKT, UTC+5) but I work fluidly with US, EU and APAC clients. 4-hour async response window, 24h max. I overlap mornings with EU, afternoons with US East Coast.
Yes — every line. On launch you get the full codebase in your GitHub, full Figma source, full WordPress / Webflow admin access, and a written handoff document. No lock-in, no proprietary builders, no surprise dependencies.
I'll recommend the right host for your traffic and stack — usually Kinsta, WP Engine, Cloudways, or Vercel for headless. Happy to handle setup, DNS, SSL and migration. You own the account, I just configure it.
Yes. Many of my engagements are visual refreshes on existing WordPress / WooCommerce installs — keeping your data, plugins and integrations intact while modernising the front. Often the fastest, highest-ROI path.
Send a brief — within 24 hours you'll have a written plan, fixed fee, and a calendar invite. No discovery call required if you don't want one.