Portrait of Tim Rubeko

Co-Founder & CTO · Paris

Tim Rubeko

Engineering leader who scales technology, teams, and the business.

20+ years building B2B products and the teams behind them, from FinTech to PropTech, multinationals to startups. As co-founder and CTO, built and scaled the engineering organization from zero to ~20 across multiple funding rounds, taking the platform from MVP to a reliable, secure, enterprise-grade product. Operate as an integral part of the C-suite, contributing to company strategy, board meetings, and fundraising, while staying close enough to the architecture and code to keep teams shipping. Hands-on with applied AI, in internal tooling and in product. Motivated by turning something that works into something that scales, across technology, team, and business.

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20+years in software
8years as a CTO
0 → 20engineering org built
16countries deployed

Track record

Two decades, three chapters.

2018–
present
Paris

Co-Founder & CTO

Square Sense · PropTech SaaS
  • Grew the engineering team from zero to ~20 across DevOps, Web, Data Engineering, Data Science and Operations (17 permanent and 3–4 rolling interns, part of a 30+ person company overall). Built the engineering management layer; promoted three engineers into managers as the org grew.
  • Supported the organization's evolution through multiple funding rounds. Contributed to Series A funding: owned the technical due diligence. Supported enterprise sales as technical lead.
  • Scaled the platform to handle 60GB daily data ingestion (16M msgs/day), 4.5TB data lake, solution deployed in 16 countries and managing 4.5M sqm of office buildings.
  • Led InfoSec efforts enabling enterprise client contracts: penetration testing, security audits, preparing for SOC 2 & ISO 27001 certification.
  • Maintained strong team retention and low churn over 8 years.
  • Own technology strategy, R&D, platform and onboarding operations, delivery, and continuous innovation.
2012–
2018
Paris

Software Architect → Engineering Manager

Kyriba · Treasury/cash-management SaaS
  • Part of the engineering organization during Kyriba's high-growth scaling years on its path to unicorn status.
  • Engineering Manager for three geographically distributed teams; bank communications and third-party API integrations.
  • Part of the team driving architecture modularization across products and introducing Scrum methodology.
  • Led the engineering department's migration from Rational ClearCase (part of RUP) to Git.
2005–
2011
Minsk

Java Developer → Dev Team Lead

Belhard · Enterprise software consultancy
  • Built and led an 8-person team from scratch to take over an orphaned Python codebase after its original team departed: stabilized it in production, established CI and code-quality practice.
  • Mentored 30+ engineers over the course of the role; grew several team members into team leads.
  • Part-time lecturer in software project management (2010–2011).

How I operate

What I bring to the table.

Strategy & Business

Board and fundraising. Contribute to board meetings, representing R&D. Support due diligence and technical narrative.

C-suite partnership. Work directly with CEO, COO, CMO on company strategy, aligning technology and business direction.

Business-aligned technology decisions. Build-vs-buy and architecture choices driven by financial and business outcomes.

Sales support. Support enterprise sales: security and compliance reviews, translating between business and engineering.

Cost management. Own cloud and operational cost efficiency. Connect engineering output to financial outcomes.

People & Management

Engineering leadership. Scale teams horizontally and vertically. Grow leaders from within (coaching).

Org design. Team Topologies adapted to the company stage. Stream-aligned squads, platform teams, enabling teams.

Performance. One-on-ones, frequent feedback, coaching, objectives. High accountability with high psychological safety.

Hiring. Practical exercises that mirror real work; multi-stakeholder fit interviews to preserve culture.

Methods. Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, XP. Agile adapted to needs, not over-applied.

Technology & Delivery

Architecture. Modular, scalable systems. Pragmatic over fashionable. Design for today with room to evolve.

Delivery. Full SDLC, PMBOK, TDD/BDD/DDD. Process that actually ships.

R&D and innovation. AI-native product patterns, applied LLMs, MCP.

Operations. Client onboarding and platform operations at scale. Penetration testing, SOC 2 & ISO 27001 readiness.

Stack. Python, TypeScript, React, dbt, Trino, PostgreSQL, Kafka, GCP, Azure, k8s, Claude & OpenAI APIs, MCP.

Beyond the role

Thought leadership and community.

Paper

AI in Commercial Real Estate: a 5-year outlook

White paper examining AI adoption trajectories in the commercial real estate sector. A forward-looking synthesis for operators, investors and technologists, published as part of Square Sense's market positioning.

Speaking

Guest speaker

  • Guest lecturer at ESSEC Business School, contributing to "Principles of Finance" for a cohort of data scientists: a PropTech startup seen from a financial and CTO perspective.
  • Guest panellist at a Visult masterclass on OKR fundamentals ("Principes fondamentaux de la méthode OKR"), as part of a practitioner round table.
Open source

Community contributor

Author of open-source projects with real-world adoption, including cookiecutter-flask-minimal, a Flask project template used by the community. More at github.com/candidtim.

Volunteer

Secretary, SGDF Versailles scouts group

Volunteering as secretary for a local SGDF scouts group in Versailles. I am sincerely and deeply attached to the movement and its people. Ensemble on est mieux. 🪢

The future is now

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    }
  }
}
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