Preston Thorpe

software engineer working on postgres @ PlanetScale

formerly:

senior engineer @ Turso

principal engineer @ Unlocked Labs

open source:

core contributor @ TursoDB

maintainer @ eza

maintainer @ UnlockEdv2

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(My story)
database, cli, linux, and rust nerd.
open source enthusiast

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.

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/fasterthanlime

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

https://github.com/LadyBirdBrowser/ladybird

https://github.com/ziglang/zig

https://github.com/neovim/neovim