Faustino Kialungila
Lead Front Engineer (Freelance) at Avanteam
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolFaustino Kialungila is a Lead Front Engineer based in Paris with nine years of experience building polished, user-centric web applications and leading front-end teams in both startup and enterprise contexts. He combines hands-on JavaScript expertise with product-focused engineering, having held lead roles at Beedeez and Maiia and currently freelancing at Avanteam. Faustino is a core contributor to the popular open-source project Excalidraw, where he improved drawing UX, copy/paste features and shape tooling—an indicator of his attention to interaction detail. Comfortable across full stack constraints from his FullStack JavaScript training, he brings a pragmatic, design-minded approach to complex UI problems. Known for the credo "Always bet on JavaScript," he blends rapid iteration with long-term maintainability and mentorship.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bac+2 - Software Developer, Developpeur Web FullStack Javascript, Bac+2 - Software Developer, Developpeur Web FullStack Javascript at Simplon Île-de-France (IdF)
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
canvas10
ui-design9
diagram9
css8
collaboration8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
excalidraw/excalidraw
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 46 commits, 123 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Faustino primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the Excalidraw application. They implemented features such as color selection for elements, including text, and enhanced the user experience by incorporating the ability to copy and paste styles between elements. Furthermore, the user added a diamond shape, improved the copy/paste features, and added context menu options. Their work focused on improving the drawing capabilities and usability of the virtual whiteboard.
diagramsdrawnhand-drawnproductivitycollaboration
Fausto95/react-native-jwplayer
May 2019 - Sep 2019
JwPlayer Component for React-Native
Contributions:4 releases, 30 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
react-nativejwplayerreact
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