Tim Vasil
CTO
Applied AI executive
Technology transformation & consolidation
Architecture & platform modernization
Writing
Recent projects
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An agentic travel planner that handles the messy parts of a real trip: multimodal routing, tailored itinerary suggestions, live weather, and a journal that fills itself in as you go.
- Agents
- Mapbox
- React
- Multimodal
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LED panels driven by a Raspberry Pi and Flask/React, plus VHF antennas pulling ship and flight data straight out of the air. Twenty small apps, all fed by live feeds.
- Raspberry Pi
- Flask/React
- VHF/AIS
- LED
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Passenger information for live events: IoT trackers and SIMs on every vehicle, a Leaflet PWA in every rider’s pocket, and custom ETAs that hold up when the schedule doesn’t. Battle-tested in real traffic, at real events.
- IoT
- Traccar
- Leaflet PWA
- ETAs
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An on-demand audio and video media coach. Node.js and Firebase on top of Gemini Live, so the feedback lands while you’re still talking.
- Gemini Live
- Node.js
- Firebase
Interviews
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CTO Confessions · Podcast · 2024
Humble Leadership in Practice
From one-person powerhouse to leading high-performing teams: feedback, a human-centric culture, and knowing when to delegate.
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Unite.AI · Interview series · 2021
Co-Founder & CTO at Hospital IQ
Machine learning for hospital operations, the COVID-19 regional forecast dashboard, and the hackathon projects that shipped.
Patents
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Design patent · US D806,118 · 2017
Display screen portion with computer icon
Icon design for the Hospital IQ operations platform. With Helen Durrant.
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Utility patent · US 8,549,536 · 2013
Distributed workflow execution across task servers
Interdependent workflow activities claimed from a shared queue by a pool of task servers, for load balancing and fault tolerance. With Philip Notick.
Research Papers
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MIT thesis · S.M. & M.B.A. · 2011
Forward Thinking in Reverse
Design, implementation, and continuous monitoring of a closed-loop supply chain at Dell: a mixed-integer optimization model, simulation, and dashboards to maximize net recovery on returned products.
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Harvard technical report · 2003
Reexamining Operating System Support for Database Management
Stonebraker’s 1981 critique of how operating systems serve databases, revisited against SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000: where the OS has caught up, and where a DBMS still has to work around it.