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 (149)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fedoradesign/backgrounds
Sep 2016 - Oct 2022
A set of default and supplemental wallpapers for Fedora
Contributions:77 releases, 8 reviews, 238 commits in 6 years 1 month
fedorasupplemental-wallpaperswallpaperkdefedora-workstation
luyatshimbalanga/scribus
Dec 2017 - Feb 2023
Mirror of official Scribus SVN (http://bugs.scribus.net ← Submit PRs & Bugs)
Contributions:235 pushes in 5 years 3 months
svnprssubmit
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