Sherif Zain
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolSherif Zain is a Staff Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building identity systems, backend services, distributed systems and cloud-native platforms. He has held senior engineering and staff roles across PayPal (two tenures), Pleo, Mimo and other European tech companies, shaping scalable, secure payment and enterprise services. Comfortable both architecting large systems and shipping hands-on code, he focuses on availability, scalability and clear technical communication. Colleagues know him as a fast learner who embraces new challenges and brings pragmatic solutions to complex distributed problems. An early-career background in diverse stacks—from Microsoft enterprise tech to modern cloud ecosystems—gives him a rare ability to bridge legacy integrations and cloud-first designs.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Ain Shams University
English, Arabic, Swedish, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (69)
json10
monitoring9
golang9
queue9
amqp9
redis9
time-series9
modbus9
task-manager9
kafka9
mqtt8
task-scheduler8
xpath8
python8
influxdb8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sherifzain/hringur
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
A microservice providing consistent hash structures.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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sherifzain/sherifzain.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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