Tim Borovkov

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

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 and haven't stopped since. Started in Java, later Swift, today mainly TypeScript and Go.

Craft

I'm self-taught, and I've built most of what I know from the ground up. These days I work end-to-end — architecture, DevOps, data pipelines, backend, frontend, and the LLM and agent layer that's reshaping all of it. I also lead engineering teams, drive product development, and run projects from scope to ship.

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. It takes roughly 30% of my hours. I also co-founded UpCharge, Finland's leading power bank sharing network, and served as its founding CEO. I ran operations, growth, investor relations, and product, and led development of the mobile app, PWA, backend, and admin tools serving thousands of users across hundreds of venues. In early 2025 I stepped back from the active business role to go deeper on the AI wave — focusing on building new products and technologies like IRMIN, and spending a couple of months in San Francisco to see firsthand what the industry's leaders are working on and the problems they're solving. I came back more inspired and determined to build than ever.

Life

The rest of my time goes into side projects — commercial and not, open and closed source, mostly in agentic AI and data engineering. The past couple of years have been defined by deep learning and growth: AI, LLMs, data, and leveling up as an engineer, architect, and founder. I work seven days a week, 80+ hours, and try never to end a day without shipping something — a feature, a fix, anything. No matter the jetlag, flight schedule, or hangover.

About nine months out of the year, I work remotely while traveling the world — coding from cafés, beaches, and anywhere else with decent wifi. When I'm not on the road, I split time between Helsinki and Tallinn — Helsinki is home, Tallinn is where I retreat 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
  • AI
  • 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

IRMIN

Coming Soon
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.

Vernix

Live
AI SaaSOpen Source

AI meeting assistant that joins your video calls on Zoom, Meet, Teams & Webex. Automatic transcripts, summaries, and action items — connected to 25+ tools.

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UpCharge

Live
Sharing Economy

Power bank sharing service across Finland. 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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CoonNest

Ongoing
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.

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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. Ten-plus years of shipping, mostly as a founder rather than inside a big engineering org — so 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, countless Tecci agency projects, my own products and projects, and countless 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
  • Claude Code
  • v0
  • rapid iteration
  • scope-cutting

Let's connect

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

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