Preston Thorpe

principal engineer @ Unlocked Labs

work: currently building an S.I.S. and education platform for incarcerated students.

open source: building the modern evolution of sqlite @ limbo. maintainer @ eza

currently incarcerated at MVCF in Charleston, ME. (story)
cli, linux, go, and rust nerd.
open source enthusiast
back-end/systems/databases/distributed systems

I love Rust, Go, CLI/TUI/all things tty, databases, cloud/infra, building developer tools, systems programming, the Open source community, and I enjoy teaching. I'm a long time linux user (I've had a ubuntu tattoo since '09), some of my favorite tools are DWM/awesomewm, Neovim, Tmux, Ghostty and Alacritty. I am an advocate for FOSS, privacy, security, criminal justice/prison reform, but most of all for hard work and discipline. I enjoy working on anything challenging, and I consider myself extremely fortunate that I have a career that doubles as a hobby.

I believe that I'm a living example of why education is the solution to mass incarceration. Access to education and technology while incarcerated changed my life completely and I want to be a part of helping give more people the opportunity I had, to study and devote time to building the skills necessary to have a meaningful life and career when they re-enter society.

These are some developers I look up to, or projects that have inspired me that I feel are worth sharing: (all unrelated to me)

https://github.com/awesomekling

https://github.com/apavlo

https://github.com/dtolnay

https://github.com/andrewrk

https://github.com/artempyanykh

https://github.com/tjdevries

https://github.com/sircmpwn

https://github.com/fasterthanlime

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio

https://github.com/LadyBirdBrowser/ladybird

https://github.com/ziglang/zig