Paul Peelen
Engineering Manager, TapToPay at PayPal
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolPaul Peelen is an experienced iOS engineering leader and Staff Engineer turned Engineering Manager based in Stockholm, with 12+ years building mobile and payments products. He now leads PayPal’s TapToPay team, combining deep hands-on iOS and SDK experience with cross-domain coordination across hardware, wallet, and consumer teams to deliver secure contactless payment solutions. As a former consultant and founder of a boutique app studio, he’s shipped high‑traffic consumer apps (ICA, Expressen, EasyPark) and led CarPlay and SDK platform integrations. Paul is an active community builder as co‑organizer of Cocoaheads Stockholm and a repeat internal hackweek winner and inventor at PayPal, demonstrating both inventive problem solving and practical delivery. Colocated in Sweden since 2001 and originally from the Netherlands, he blends international perspective with a streak for workshop facilitation and product-minded engineering.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Java programming Java programming, Java programming Java programming at INITCollege Webb, College Webb at Media GymnasietHigh School Metal and construction, High School Metal and construction at Maaswaal College
Swedish, English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (68)
swift10
dependency-manager10
tvos10
macos10
layout-engine10
objective-c10
ios10
linkedin10
uiview9
iphone9
xcode9
feedly8
swiftui8
target-action8
slide-menu8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SwiftIsland/island-app
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
Our community sourced conference app
Contributions:1 review, 62 commits, 75 PRs in 2 years 11 months
react-nativecommunity-sourcedconference-appswiftswift-island
ppeelen/TibberSwift
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
TibberSwift is a small unofficial SPM to make simple GraphQL queries towards Tibber's GraphQL service, fully written in Swift and made for use with SwiftUI.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 16 PRs in 1 year 5 months
graphqlswiftswiftuiswift-package-managertibberapi
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