Canada
Tech With Tim — the channel of Canadian self-taught developer and entrepreneur Tim Ruscica — built its audience on a straightforward promise: practical programming instruction without filler.
Total Followers +0.5%
2M
Across YouTube
Primary Platform
YouTube
2M followers · 100% of audience
Engagement
3.0%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Macro
Est. — / IG post
| Platform | Followers | 30d Growth | Engagement | Posts / wk | Last upload |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | 2,050,000 | +10K | 3.0% | 10.5 | 3 days ago |
| Window | YouTube | Combined | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 7 days | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 |
| Last 30 days | +10K +0.5% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +10K |
| Last 90 days | +51K +2.5% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +51K |
| Last 365 days | +51K +2.5% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +51K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zapier Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jul 2026 | — |
| Hostinger Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jul 2026 | — |
| Supabase Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jul 2026 | — |
| Boot.dev Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jul 2026 | — |
| DataCamp Sponsorship | Sponsored content | YouTube | Jul 2026 | — |
Tech With Tim — the channel of Canadian self-taught developer and entrepreneur Tim Ruscica — built its audience on a straightforward promise: practical programming instruction without filler. Tim began publishing Python tutorials as a teenager, leaning into a direct, project-driven teaching style that resonated with learners who found conventional courses too slow or too abstract. His personal story, moving from a minimum-wage job to a six-figure developer income and relocating to Dubai before his early twenties, gives the channel an aspirational undercurrent that extends beyond code syntax into developer career advice and self-directed learning philosophy.
With a following in the multi-millions concentrated heavily among English-speaking markets, and a secondary base in India that reflects global demand for accessible programming education, Tim's audience skews almost entirely male and peaks in the 25–34 professional development bracket — a segment actively seeking upskilling. His sponsor roster reflects that positioning precisely: Boot.dev and DataCamp target learners building technical skills, Supabase and Hostinger appeal to developers building and deploying products, and Zapier bridges into the automation space. A visible recent pivot toward AI tooling, local model deployment, and agent-building tutorials positions the channel well as developer education converges with the applied AI wave.
Techwithtim reaches an audience concentrated in Canada primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations. As an education creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. Demonstrated partners include Zapier and Hostinger. Engagement on YouTube runs around 3.0%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. Their YouTube-first format lends itself to integrations that sit inside the creator's usual content rather than running as standalone ads. Because the audience follows education content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For Canada-focused brands in education and related categories, Techwithtim offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Techwithtim's tier (Macro, 2M combined followers, Canada). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Yes — Tim has shared openly that he went from working at McDonald's as a broke school dropout to earning over $100K a month as a self-taught developer, all before turning 22. He built his channel's entire identity around that journey, using it to show aspiring developers that a traditional degree is not a prerequisite for a software engineering career.
Techwithtim is entirely self-taught and was a school dropout before building his career as a developer and entrepreneur. His channel is explicitly designed around that path, covering practical programming skills — Python, web development, AI tooling — rather than academic computer science theory.
His real name is Tim Ruscica — "Tech With Tim" is the brand he created around himself as a self-taught developer and educator. He goes by Tim across his content and keeps his personal identity closely tied to the channel.
Tim relocated to Dubai before the age of 22 as part of the location-flexible lifestyle he built through his developer and creator income. Dubai has become a common destination for tech entrepreneurs and online creators, partly due to its business-friendly environment, and Tim's move fits the broader narrative of his early financial independence.
Python is the cornerstone of Techwithtim's tutorials, and it runs through much of his beginner and intermediate content alongside web development topics. More recently he has expanded heavily into AI-related programming, where Python remains the dominant language for building and fine-tuning models.
Yes — AI has become a major focus of his recent YouTube output, with full tutorials covering topics like how AI agents work, how to fine-tune AI models locally, and how large language models process prompts. His approach follows the same no-fluff style as his older Python content, leaning toward practical, build-it-yourself walkthroughs rather than shallow overviews.
Boot.dev and DataCamp are both active sponsors on his YouTube channel, alongside Hostinger, Supabase, and Zapier. The pattern of his sponsorships reflects his audience — they are learning-focused platforms and developer tools aimed squarely at self-taught programmers trying to break into or level up in tech.
That is the stated goal of the channel — Tim's own bio describes helping thousands of aspiring developers land their first software engineering role and assisting mid-level devs in advancing their careers. His tutorials focus on job-relevant skills like Python, web development, and AI tooling rather than purely theoretical material.
Tim reached that income milestone before the age of 22, which is central to his origin story and the credibility behind his educational content. The rapid timeline — going from working at McDonald's as a dropout to six-figure monthly revenue and relocating to Dubai — is what made his story resonate in the self-taught developer community.
Techwithtim has passed 2 million subscribers on YouTube, placing him firmly in the Macro tier of programming and tech education channels. His engagement rate runs well above the category median for education content, which suggests an audience of active learners rather than passive subscribers.
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