Building from Helsinki · working across Europe
Founder & software engineer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Products, companies, and open-source systems I've helped move from an idea to something real.
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.
Power bank sharing network across Finland and Spain (Málaga, Barcelona). Rent portable chargers at public locations via QR scan, return them anywhere.
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.
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.
IRMIN · Vernix · Raccoon Nest
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Advanced
Designing systems from scratch - data models, service boundaries, and deployment topology for products that actually need to scale.
Advanced
Full-stack web apps end-to-end - from database to pixel, shipped to production. Cross-platform mobile via React Native when a product needs it.
Advanced
Scoping, prioritizing, and taking features from a rough idea to something real people use. Opinions on what to cut, what to ship, what to polish.
Advanced
B2B portals, commerce, and integrations into the systems enterprises actually run on. Tecci work for clients across manufacturing, agri-coops, real estate, and services.
Solid
Two years deep into agents, retrieval, and fine-tuning. The LLM layer that increasingly sits on top of everything else.
Solid
Pipelines, warehouses, and ETL - moving data between systems, validating it, and making sure it's clean when it lands.
Solid
Co-founded UpCharge (served as founding CEO) and still running Tecci with my partners. Still sharpening this - learning the craft of getting products to market, finding their growth loops, and running real companies. Reps over credentials.
Proficient
Product- and result-driven. I take a vision or goal and turn it into something shipped - bouncing between clients, partners, engineers, and my own code to make it all work.
Proficient
Self-hosted and cloud. Containers, orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring, backups, and the full production-readiness stack - enough to ship and keep things running.
Always happy to hear from founders, builders, collaborators, and anyone curious about tech, startups, or European politics. Email is fastest.
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