Hi, I'm Akshay Paghdar 👋

Lead PHP & WordPress Engineer

I build and review WordPress plugins, REST APIs and backend systems that run on tens of thousands of sites.
14+ years across plugin architecture, performance, code quality and AI-assisted developer tooling.

📍 India · 🌍 Remote · ✅ Open to Senior / Lead Engineering roles

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🚀 Featured work

Project	Role	Highlights
WPTerminal	Creator	Manage WordPress sites from ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor over MCP: OAuth 2.0 + PKCE pairing, a theme-draft sandbox with private previews, approval-gated WP-CLI, WooCommerce insights, SEO and cache tooling, and fleet-wide health checks.
Quiz And Survey Master	Lead Developer	Conditional logic, result calculation, analytics dashboards and most premium add-ons (leaderboards, certificates, reporting, save & resume) for a plugin active on 40,000+ sites.
AI-Assisted GitLab Code Review Tool	Designer & Developer	Six-agent system that turns GitLab merge requests into normalized, severity-ranked findings, with on-demand WordPress sandbox validation. Case study →
WP-Optimize	Code Reviewer	Reviewed caching, minification and asset-handling modules; found a race condition and a regex parsing defect, fixed an archive cache-purge failure and restored WordPress-aware PHPStan analysis.
ARMember	Core Developer	Membership and subscription engine: payment integrations, recurring billing automation and member lifecycle modules.
XRPANDA	Head of Web & Digital Strategy	Responsive site for an immersive technology company, structured around XR offerings and a clear path from solution discovery to demo enquiry.
Widget Options · Responsive Menu	Contributor	Open-source WordPress plugins for widget visibility control and responsive navigation.

🛠️ Tech stack

Backend & WordPress

Data & Performance

Frontend

Code Quality & Delivery

AI-Assisted Engineering

🏅 Community

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