# The Faces of Turso: Meet Mikaël Francoeur

DevFeed: [The Faces of Turso: Meet Mikaël Francoeur](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-faces-of-turso-meet-mikael-francoeur-5944.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/faces-of-turso-mikael>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2025-10-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>)

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## AI overview

This profile introduces Mikaël Francoeur, a musician-turned-software engineer who studies Rust and database internals while contributing full-time to Turso. It highlights his work implementing SQLite-compatible JSON functions, improving JavaScript bindings, fixing an issue in napi-rs, and investigating more than 90 bugs.

## Source excerpt

Turso is built by a large community of contributors. Today we get to know Mikaël Francoeur