How Three Worlds
Became One
I started with engineering. At NUS College of Design and Engineering, studying Materials Science and Engineering, I learned to break complex problems into their components and solve them with systematic rigour — the same way you'd approach a materials failure or a stress analysis.
At the same time, photography was growing alongside it. Not as a side hobby, but as a parallel language. I was photographing NUS Formula SAE builds, astrophotography trips, cosplay community events, and university functions. The engineering mindset made me a precise photographer — I think in light the way I used to think in load paths.
Then came code. I realised the same workflow frustrations I experienced as a creative — repetitive edits, disorganised client files, manual processes — were everywhere. I started building tools to solve them: Telegram bots, AI-powered pipelines, RAW processing engines. TheBooleanJulian was born from shipping real things that real people use.
Teaching followed naturally. The ability to reverse-engineer complexity — to find the underlying structure of a hard topic and explain it from first principles — turned out to be exactly what tutoring required. Today, under both TutorJulian and Educare4u, I apply the same engineering clarity to Primary and Secondary Science and Maths.
Today, the three strands are one practice: precision, innovation, and the belief that craft without execution is just potential.