Luya Tshimbalanga
Freelance Photographer at Coolest Storm Design
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLuya Tshimbalanga is a Vancouver-based creative professional with 17 years blending graphic design, web work, and freelance photography across events, portraits, and editorial projects. As founder of Coolest Storm Design and a long-time Fedora Project designer, she combines brand identity, typography, and illustration expertise with practical web and magazine production. Her photography evolved from weddings to covering cultural and fashion events like Vancouver Fashion Week and the International Yoga Festival, showing an ability to tell stories visually across formats. Trained at The Art Institute of Vancouver with web-design certification from W3Schools, she pairs formal design discipline with hands-on digital execution for local businesses and publications. An enduring open-source contributor to Fedora’s design team, she brings collaborative, community-minded design practice that often surfaces in both civic and commercial projects.
17 years of coding experience
Certificate, Web design, Certificate, Web design at W3 School Refsnes Data OnlineDiploma, Graphic Design, Diploma, Graphic Design at The Art Institute of Vancouver
Github Skills (200)
scribus10
spin10
rtx10
windows10
authentication10
wallpaper10
ubuntu10
implicit10
gimp10
pam10
accelerometer10
pdf-annotation10
rasterizer10
intel10
debian10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
luyatshimbalanga/libwacom
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
libwacom is a tablet description library
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 2 months
tabletmsrmanualjlinkbarrage
luyatshimbalanga/xournalpp
Dec 2019 - Sep 2024
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE, Fedora), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.
Contributions:1 PR, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
susewindows-10annotationpenpdf
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