# The Faces of Turso: Meet Alperen Keleş

DevFeed: [The Faces of Turso: Meet Alperen Keleş](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-faces-of-turso-meet-alperen-keles-5941.md>)

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Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2025-08-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Formal methods](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/formal-methods.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>)

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## AI overview

This profile introduces Alperen Keleş, a Turso community contributor and PhD student whose research focuses on formal methods, autonomous testing, and software reliability. It explains how he began contributing to Limbo, Turso's Rust-based SQLite rewrite, because of its focus on distributed systems, databases, deterministic simulation testing, and accessible opportunities for open-source contribution.

## Source excerpt

Turso is built by a large community of contributors. Today we get to know Alperen Keles