Faustino Kialungila

Software engineer from Angola, living in Paris. Lead Front-end Engineer at Avanteam. Co-creator of Excalidraw. Mostly React, React Native and TypeScript. I like building tools and putting them on the internet for free.

[ projects | work | blog | contact ]

Open source projects

• excalidraw — Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams (co-creator)
• react-lens — React Devtools with time traveling
• arvia — Design tokens → variants → slots → theme modes, in one language. Compiles to CSS, nothing ships at runtime
• arvia-ui — Component library built on arvia
• vscode-swap — VS Code extension for text swapping
• react-native-forge — Native video processing module for React Native and Expo

More on github.com/Fausto95

Work

• Avanteam (Jan 2026 — now): Lead Front Engineer, freelance
• Beedeez (Apr 2024 — Feb 2026): Lead Engineer
• Maiia (Jan 2024 — Apr 2024): Lead Software Engineer
• PMU (Oct 2022 — Jan 2024): Senior Software Engineer
• Société Générale CIB (Apr 2022 — Oct 2022): Software Engineering Consultant
• SFEIR (Apr 2022 — Jan 2024): Software Engineer
• Coorpacademy (Mar 2018 — Mar 2022): Software Engineer

Blog

• 2024-05-28 — Render functions and React components

More on fausto95.substack.com — RSS feed

Contact

• GitHub: github.com/Fausto95
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fausto95
• Twitter: @Fausto95_
• Substack: fausto95.substack.com

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