Preston Thorpe
Senior Software Engineer at Turso
Charleston, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolPreston Thorpe is a Senior Software Engineer and active open-source maintainer with roughly three years of professional experience building systems, cloud services, and databases, currently contributing to projects like eza (a modern ls alternative) and Limbo, a modern evolution of SQLite. He pairs backend and database engineering—implementing VDBE bitwise operators, UUID utilities, and CLI improvements—with a Rust/CLI focus, reflecting a taste for systems-level tooling and developer UX. Self-taught while incarcerated in Maine, Preston taught himself to program, maintained remote engineering roles, and built an online presence that enabled continued professional growth and impact. He has held progressive engineering roles at Unlocked Labs and now Turso, and also contributes to sysadmin and IT work for the state education department, demonstrating both operational and software depth. Passionate about prison reform through education and tech access, he leverages open source to create pathways for skill development and identity reconstruction that extend beyond code.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Maine at Augusta
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
rust10
sql10
command-line10
m-files9
colors9
iconsets9
glyph-icons9
terminal-application9
data-files9
database-design9
file-icons9
text-files9
terminal-emulator9
uuid9
casting8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
eza-community/eza
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
A modern alternative to ls
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:156 reviews, 50 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Preston contributed to the project by implementing new features related to the display of file information. They added a feature to highlight git-ignored files with a specific color and style. Additionally, they worked on improving the icon display, including matching folder icons based on their contents and incorporating more OCaml icons. The commits also included updates to dependencies and theme configurations to support these new features.
command-lineiconslsnerd-fontsrust
tursodatabase/limbo
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Limbo is a project to build the modern evolution of SQLite.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:106 reviews, 60 PRs, 127 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Preston primarily focused on implementing new functionality within the core database project, specifically the modern evolution of SQLite. Their contributions include adding bitwise operators for the vdbe (virtual database engine), support for unary negation of aggregates, and implementing UUID-related functions (generation, formatting, and conversion). Additionally, they added a command to set the value displayed for NULL values and enhanced the CLI with features such as multi-line input, echo mode, and a command for listing available VFS modules.
databaseembedded-databasesqlsqlite3webassembly
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