Tim Borovkov

Software engineer by craft, classical liberal and European federalist 🇪🇺 by conviction. Shipping code since I was 12 - building products and companies that solve real problems ever since.

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About

I'm Tim Borovkov, a founder and software engineer drawn to the hard problems at the intersection of tech, politics, and Europe's future. Born in Tallinn, raised in Helsinki. I've been shipping code since I was 12.

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Craft

I'm self-taught, and I've built most of what I know from the ground up. I work end-to-end, from the architecture to the product people use, and I lead engineering when the work calls for a team.

Companies

Tecci is the software consultancy I've been running with my partners since 2019. We build enterprise web apps, commerce, and integrations for Nordic companies.

I co-founded UpCharge, a power bank sharing network in Finland and Spain, and was its founding CEO. I stepped back from the day-to-day to go deeper on building in AI.

Life

Side projects take the rest, mostly in AI and data. The past few years have been about getting sharper as an engineer, an architect, and a founder.

I spend much of the year working remotely while traveling. Helsinki is home. Tallinn is where I go to focus.

Beliefs

When I'm not coding, you'll find me in political discussions. I'm a classical liberal and a European federalist 🇪🇺 - I advocate for free-market liberalism, open societies, and a more united, sovereign Europe. Tech is one of our most underused levers: the fastest way to build the scale and productivity Europe needs to stand on its own.

Interests

  • Tech
  • Startups
  • LLMs
  • AI agents
  • Dev tools
  • System architecture
  • Workflow automation
  • Data engineering
  • Big data
  • Open source
  • Hackathons
  • Homelabbing
  • Politics
  • Europe 🇪🇺
  • Classical liberalism
  • European federalism
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • VC
  • Personal freedom
  • Parliamentary procedure
  • Debates
  • History
  • Futurism
  • City planning
  • Public infrastructure
  • Cycling
  • Grand strategy games
  • Craft beer
  • Karaoke
  • Techno

Projects

Featured project

The Timeline

Live
AI SaaSOpen Source

An evidence-derived operating record for teams. It captures work from chats, meetings, email, docs, code, and connected tools, then generates cited updates, digests, handoffs, answers, and project memory.

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UpCharge

Live
Sharing Economy

Power bank sharing network across Finland and Spain (Málaga, Barcelona). Rent portable chargers at public locations via QR scan, return them anywhere.

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Tecci

Live
Agency

Helsinki-area software agency building enterprise web apps, commerce platforms, and integrations for clients like Puumerkki, Faba, and Cushman & Wakefield. With the company since 2019; I lead engineering.

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Tim's Agent Skills

Ongoing
Agent SkillsOpen Source

Reusable workflows for coding agents - covering delivery, testing, documentation, code review, project setup, and safe upstream synchronization across Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, and Hermes.

GitHub

Archive

IRMIN · Vernix · Raccoon Nest

IRMIN

Archived
Data InfrastructureOpen Source

The trusted data layer for your AI agents. Ingest from any source, version every change, and serve relevant, versioned context to your agents in minutes, not months.

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Vernix

Archived
AI SaaSOpen Source

AI meeting assistant that joined video calls on Zoom, Meet, Teams, and Webex. Automatic transcripts, summaries, and action items, connected to 25+ tools. No longer live. The code is on GitHub.

GitHub

Raccoon Nest

Archived
HomelabOpen Source

A multi-purpose home cloud - two always-on boxes running Immich, Syncthing, Forgejo, Cal.com, local LLMs (Ollama, ComfyUI, Whisper), and more. Fully bootstrap-from-USB recoverable. Plan, configs, and runbooks all open source.

GitHub

Mission

My personal mission is to help fully automate as many jobs as I can, so humans are free to pursue their true passions.

Most people in the workforce today are unmotivated - there for the paycheck, not the work. The result is not just low productivity, but in my view a net-negative effect on value produced, as unmotivated individuals drag on their more efficient and driven colleagues.

It's absurd that we still have "generic office jobs" whose daily work mostly consists of summarizing things, answering emails, sitting in meetings for the sake of meetings, or copy-pasting between systems. Humans aren't needed for this. We have the tech - let's fix it.

Freed from these jobs, people could pour themselves into what actually matters to them: areas where they'd work day and night to make a real impact - in music, art, technology, games, business, or wherever else their spark lies.

Skills

Started coding in Java at 12, went through Swift, and today build full-stack in TypeScript and Go - from infra to UI. 10+ years of shipping, mostly as a founder rather than inside a big engineering org. What's here is what I've actually put the reps into - not a company-scaffolded title list. Still learning; always will be.

Core competency

Zero to Users

Turning ideas into reality with users, fast. UpCharge, dozens of Tecci agency projects, my own products and projects, and 20+ hackathons (won some, lost some, placed top in others) - all built by picking the right stack, skipping the wrong complexity, and iterating until something real existed. Shipping matters more than polishing.

  • agentic development
  • prototyping
  • rapid iteration
  • MVP delivery
  • scope-cutting

Let's connect

Always happy to hear from founders, builders, collaborators, and anyone curious about tech, startups, or European politics. Email is fastest.

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