Summary
Timon Ruban is the founder and managing director of Luminovo, combining a decade of engineering and startup leadership to accelerate hardware development with collaborative software for the electronics industry. Trained in electrical engineering at ETH Zürich and Stanford (where he applied deep learning to medical and computational imaging), he brings uncommon depth in both hardware design and ML-driven automation. He previously interned at Google working on TensorFlow-based image understanding and helped found the Deutscher KI‑Verband, reflecting his commitment to applied AI across industry and policy. Timon is practical and product-focused: his company turns real-time data and automated processes into faster, cheaper, and more sustainable electronics development workflows. Outside work he writes occasional technical blog posts and collects hitchhiking and camping stories, a hint of the curiosity and hands-on experimentation that inform his approach.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at ETH Zürich
High School Abitur, High School Abitur at Gymnasium Neubiberg
Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, German, French, Spanish