Said Sikira
Sr. Staff Engineer at PayPal
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSaid Sikira is a senior staff engineer and payments architect with nine years of experience building end-to-end payment systems at PayPal and Zettle, based in Stockholm. He leads architecture for in-store payments—covering hardware, SDKs, authorization, ledger and payouts—and drove the Tap to Pay launch for Venmo and Zettle in the US and UK in partnership with Apple. Known for turning SDKs into partner-grade products, he led the split and scaling of product teams, a major SDK replatforming, and faster release cadences across apps. His background in mobile iOS engineering and product-focused development gives him a rare blend of hands-on implementation skill and strategic systems design. He holds a Computer Science degree from International Burch University and often operates at the intersection of hardware, mobile SDKs, and financial services compliance.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at International Burch UniversityHigh School, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School, Mathematics and Computer Science at Gimnazija Muhsin Rizvic
English
Github Skills (26)
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
carthage10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
lift8
json6
lifecycle6
watchos5
tvos5
async5
reactive5
asynchronous5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iZettle/sdk-ios
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
Add card payments from Zettle to your own app
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 67 commits in 3 years 3 months
paymentsizettlecard-paymentsadd-cardios
iZettle/Lift
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Lift is a Swift library for generating and extracting values into and out of JSON-like data structures.
Contributions:11 commits in 4 months
json-liketvosswift-librarymacswift
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