John Pangas
University of Calgary / Calgary, Alberta
§ About
A short biography, written in the margins.
Software engineer building agentic AI systems for software engineering, research workflows, and complex business problems.
John Pangas is a software engineer building agentic AI tools for software engineering and complex business problems. He has over three years of experience turning machine-learning systems into useful workflows, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, software-engineering specialization, at the University of Calgary.
His research and open-source work sits at the intersection of large language models, software teams, and operational decision-making: how AI agents can draft test plans, surface accessibility bugs, compare alternatives, and reduce the friction between idea and shipped code. He has contributed to Scikit-learn and Mozilla's Bugbug, and is currently collaborating with Mozilla on a GPT-4-driven QA tool for Firefox.
He believes the best tools are the boring ones: small, sharp, and quietly indispensable. That's what he tries to build.
Skills
Core
- Agentic AI
- Machine Learning
- Large Language Models
- Software Engineering
Tools & Stacks
- Python
- TensorFlow
- scikit-learn
- PyTorch
- AWS
- TaskCluster
- Weights & Biases
Practice
- AI workflow design
- Model deployment & MLOps
- Open-source contribution
- Research writing
Languages
- English (native)
- Luganda (working)
Certifications
- ◆Mathematics for Machine Learning: Multi-variate Calculus, Coursera
- ◆Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization, Coursera
- ◆Using TensorFlow with Amazon SageMaker
- ◆AWS Concepts
- ◆DevOps Essentials
Honors
- ★Bronze Award, 6th Zhejiang Int'l "Internet +" Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition
- ★Silver Award, 7th Zhejiang Int'l "Internet +" Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition
- ★Outstanding International Student (Golden ZJUTer), Zhejiang University of Technology
- ★Outstanding Graduate, Zhejiang University of Technology
Education
University of Calgary
MSc, Electrical Engineering (Software) · 2024–2027
Zhejiang University of Technology
BEng, Software Engineering · 2018–2022