TIM TUEV / TASHKENT, UTC+5 / OPEN TO REMOTE & RELOCATION

AI Deployment
Strategist

Bridging business, product and AI engineering.

I turn business and product problems into AI systems — from model selection and inference strategy to agents, memory, retrieval and deployment.

OPERATING MAP LIVE
01 AI SYSTEMS STRATEGY ACTIVE
02 MODEL SELECTION & BENCHMARKING ACTIVE
03 INFERENCE & HARDWARE OPTIMIZATION ACTIVE
04 AGENTIC WORKFLOWS & TOOL USE ACTIVE
05 MEMORY, RETRIEVAL & EVALS ACTIVE
06 AI PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE & UX ACTIVE
STATUS AVAILABLE FOR HIRE
LOCATION TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN
WORK MODE REMOTE / RELOCATION / LOCAL
BACKGROUND PRODUCT / DESIGN / R&D SYSTEMS
CORE POSITIONING

From Business Problem
to AI System

BUSINESS

  • Problem Framing
  • User Need & Workflows
  • Business Value
  • Regulatory Constraints
  • Operational Realities
  • Cost & Unit Economics

AI SYSTEM

  • Open & Proprietary Models
  • Data Schemas & Grounding
  • LoRA / Domain Adaptation
  • Inference & Quantization
  • Agents & Tool Calling
  • Memory & Vector Indexing
  • Hierarchical Retrieval
  • Rigorous Evals & Benchmarks

PRODUCT

  • System Architecture
  • Working Prototypes
  • Deployment & Packaging
  • Non-Hallucinatory UX
  • KPI Measurement
  • Fast Iteration Cycles
"My work happens in the middle."

Business teams often know exactly what needs to improve but not which AI approach makes technical or economic sense. AI engineers understand the underlying models and infrastructure but may not own the product, user, or business context. I connect the two.

PROOF OF ENGINEERING & R&D

Selected Systems

Concrete systems built around hard memory, privacy, hardware, and retrieval constraints.

SYSTEM / 001 AI MEMORY R&D ACTIVE
2026

Skinki

A local-first memory engine exploring how retrieval, provenance and long-term memory can make AI systems more capable.

RUST MCP RETRIEVAL EVALS EMBEDDINGS MEMORY
5M vectors
<250 MB RAM BUDGET
0.291 → 0.438
RECALL@10 (COARSE-TO-FINE)
[ FALSIFICATION SIGNAL ] 0.325 → 0.800 SYNTHETIC GRAPH WIN

FAILED TO TRANSFER TO REAL DIALOGUE (0.168 recall@10 on LongMemEval vs 0.193 BM25 baseline). Exposed how synthetic template coupling masked graph extraction error distributions.

FIGURE 01: SYNTHETIC VS REAL-DIALOGUE RECALL
Chart showing synthetic vs real dialogue recall@10 across graph and dense baselines
SYSTEM / 002 REALTIME / ON-PREMISE HARDWARE APPLIANCE
2026

Vnutri

An on-premise realtime communication system designed around hard privacy, hardware and infrastructure constraints.

RUST WEBSOCKETS ARM E2EE WASM UNIFFI REACT SWIFT
130 MB RAM
APP MEMORY (500 ACTIVE USERS)
260x Drop
FSYNC REDUCTION VIA WRITE-BUFFER
HARDWARE BOUND: Rockchip RK3528A/RK3588S SoC ID + eMMC CID
WIRE PROTOCOL: 33-byte binary header + MsgPack (O(1) blind routing)
CRYPTO CORE: Rust compiled to WASM (Web) & UniFFI (iOS/Swift)
AI INTEGRATION: On-demand zero-knowledge AI sidecar unix socket
TOPOLOGY: AIR-GAPPED ON-PREM APPLIANCE
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              CLIENT LAN (ON-PREM)             │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │ ARM APPLIANCE (Rockchip RK3528A / 2GB)  │  │
│  │  ┌────────────┐     ┌────────────────┐  │  │
│  │  │ Axum WS    │────▶│ SQLCipher eMMC │  │  │
│  │  │ Blind Hub  │     │ Write-Buffered │  │  │
│  │  └──────┬─────┘     └────────────────┘  │  │
│  │         │ (Unix Socket)                 │  │
│  │         ▼                               │  │
│  │  ┌────────────┐ (Zero-Knowledge)        │  │
│  │  │ AI Sidecar │                         │  │
│  │  └────────────┘                         │  │
│  └─────────┬───────────────────────────────┘  │
│            │ WSS (Binary Protocol v2)         │
│  LAN PWA / Swift iOS Clients (WASM/UniFFI)    │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
HANDS-ON LABORATORY LOGS

Inference Lab

Running models, not just calling APIs. Hands-on experiments with open models, inference runtimes, hardware limits, and deployment trade-offs.

EXP / 001
2026
Qwen 2.5 27B / RTX 3090 / Vast.ai
RUNTIMES vLLM → llama.cpp
TESTED MTP Speculative, Quantized Inference (Q4_K_M), Remote GPU Deployment
DECISION: llama.cpp
WHY: Significantly lower operational friction, stable memory footprint under 24GB VRAM, and predictable cold-start recovery for ad-hoc batch processing.
EXP / 002
2026
MLX / Apple Silicon Unified Memory
RUNTIMES MLX Swift / Python C++ Binding
TESTED 4-bit vs 8-bit KV Cache, Zero-Copy Prompt Prefill on M-series
DECISION: 4-bit Quantized KV
WHY: 2.4x throughput preservation with unnoticeable degradation in retrieval context needle extraction.
EXP / 003
2026
MoE Expert Offloading Latency
RUNTIMES Mixtral / DeepSeek-V2 hybrid CPU-GPU
TESTED PCIe bandwidth bottleneck vs active expert memory pin
DECISION: Pin Router in VRAM
WHY: Routing layers must never leave VRAM; dynamic expert streaming over PCIe 4.0 degrades tokens/sec by 65%.
SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE

Across the AI Stack

Replacing generic skill bars with explicit architectural layers.

01 MODELS
model selection capabilities mapping reasoning architectures multimodality dense vs MoE
02 ADAPTATION
synthetic datasets LoRA fine-tuning alignment & steering evaluation harnesses
03 INFERENCE
CUDA & MLX quantization (AWQ/GGUF/EXL2) llama.cpp / vLLM hardware trade-offs
04 SYSTEMS
agents & tool use MCP servers hierarchical retrieval memory substrates provenance
05 DEPLOYMENT
latency budgets cost & token economics privacy & air-gapped reliability local vs cloud
06 PRODUCT
non-hallucinatory UX workflow integration user adoption business value system design
"The goal isn't to use more AI. It's to choose the simplest system that solves the problem well."
RIGOROUS EVIDENCE

Field Notes

Published research notes, benchmark reconstructions, and empirical investigations.

When Graph Retrieval Fails to Transfer

A typed relation graph raised synthetic multi-hop recall@10 from 0.325 to 0.800. On a small LongMemEval sample, it fell below BM25. An early research note on benchmark-shaped wins, real dialogue, and what failed next.

READ FULL NOTE →
FOUNDATIONAL BACKGROUND

The Other Half

Before working deeply with AI systems, I spent nearly a decade in design, product and creative leadership.

That background became the other half of my current work: understanding users, business constraints, communication, information systems and product experience. It is why I don't build tech for tech's sake.

01
BRAND & DESIGN SYSTEMS
Multi-layered typography, design tokens, identity systems, and cohesive digital design languages.
02
INFORMATION & NAVIGATION SCHEMES
Complex information architectures, wayfinding systems, and hierarchical data visualization.
03
PRODUCT & CUSTOMER JOURNEYS
Zero-to-one product design, user onboarding, high-conversion funnels, and enterprise UX.
RESEARCH CAN ALSO BE A PRODUCT

BrandAnatomy

Independent long-form research publication dissecting companies, strategy, design, and business models.

RESEARCH SYNTHESIS STORYTELLING DISTRIBUTION
PROFILE

About

TIM TUEV / 2026 TASHKENT
TIM TUEV
AI Deployment Strategist
[ FOCUS ] AI Systems Architecture & R&D
[ ORIGIN ] Product & Creative Leadership
[ LOCATION ] Tashkent, UZ (UTC+5)
[ STATUS ] Ready for International Roles

I started in design and eventually moved into creative leadership, product thinking and complex systems.

The recent AI wave pulled me progressively deeper into models, inference, agents and AI systems R&D.

Today my strongest skill sits between two worlds: understanding what a business needs, understanding what current AI technology can actually do, and designing the system that connects them.

I work heavily with coding agents for implementation and rapid iteration. My ownership is in problem framing, architecture, experiments, evaluation and product decisions, while I continue developing deeper independent engineering fundamentals.

HIRING ENGAGEMENT

Currently Open To

International remote teams, roles with relocation potential, and selected high-impact opportunities in Tashkent.

01
AI DEPLOYMENT
Translating enterprise workflows into practical, cost-effective AI solutions.
02
AI SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE
Designing end-to-end inference, retrieval, agentic, and local-first memory stacks.
03
TECHNICAL AI PRODUCT
Owning the bridge between business KPIs, technical teams, and non-hallucinatory UX.
04
FORWARD DEPLOYMENT
Hands-on client integration, rapid prototyping, and engineering iteration.