John Dykes

Full Stack Web and AI Developer

LangPanel
Founder / May 2024 — Present
- Developing AI powered translation application for comics
- OCR AI model designed and trained using pytorch and proprietary text rendering library.
- Models run in the browser with WebGPU, reducing costs
Communications Security Establishment
Cryptanalyst / September 2020 — May 2024
- Implementing, evaluating cryptographic standards and algorithms
- Other top secret cryptographic research
Communications Research Centre Canada
Computer Research Programmer / November 2019 — September 2020
- Applied machine learning and Geo-computation to Telecommunications Data, including estimating the interference that cellular towers have on each other
- Attended a 1-week long training course on machine learning using TensorFlow
University of Waterloo
Graduate Student / January 2019 — December 2019
- Master's degree program in mathematics
- Studied analytic number theory with Professor Yu-Ru Liu

For creating awesome web apps

I use it for almost everything I make on the web, including this website!

My SQL database of choice

Used by LangPanel, alongside the postgres provider Supabase.

Making everything look pretty

For my styling needs, I often reach for Tailwind over plain CSS.

w-full md:w-auto inline-flex items-center justify-center px-6 py-3 border border-transparent text-base font-medium

grid grid-rows-[auto_1fr] gap-y-6 grid-cols-1 col-span-1 bg-neutral-800 rounded-2xl border border-neutral-700 px-5 py-7 overflow-hidden group

AI Powered Applications

Training custom AI models, or using existing ones withHuggingface.

My go-to backend framework

Serverless is great, but sometimes you need a real backend. I default to Fastify.