Security
Least privilege and controlled access from the first design conversation.
About me
Julian Liu
AI / ML engineer
I founded Caelara to bring enterprise AI delivery to education. I help universities, medical schools, and families design systems that can be audited, operated, and trusted.
10+
Years in engineering
6
Years in data science, ML & GenAI
3
Clouds we build on
Education
Primary focus
The path
How I got here.
I have spent more than ten years as an engineer. For the last six of those years I have delivered data science, machine learning, and generative AI as products and services inside enterprises.
That work taught a simple discipline. Models are easy to demo and hard to operate. Security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and observability are the product. If a system cannot be audited, isolated, monitored, and owned, it is not finished.
I build on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Institutions rarely live in one provider. Identity, networking, secrets, logging, and cost are part of the engagement — not a later IT ticket.
I now focus on education because I care about learning, and because the sector is under-served. AI investment follows profit. Classrooms, medical schools, and homeschool families inherit tools that were never designed for them. Caelara exists to do that work.
How I build
The standard from enterprise work.
Privacy
Student and family data stay minimized, isolated, and explicitly retained.
Compliance
Built with FERPA, accessibility, and institutional review in mind.
Reliability
Production systems with clear failure modes, fallbacks, and ownership.
Observability
Logs, traces, and evaluations so you can see what ran, why it failed, and what it cost.
Clouds
Production delivery on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud — including the identity, networking, and operations work that makes a model usable inside an institution.
Current clients
Who we serve today.
Rocky Vista University
Medical educationAI delivery for a medical school, including accessibility tooling and faculty discovery work.
Colorado School of Mines
Higher educationAI consulting for a research university that needs production systems, not slideware.
Homeschool families
Individual educatorsDirect work with families who teach at home, starting from real constraints.
If this is the standard you want, write to us.
Tell us about the program, the constraint, and what done looks like.