# Working on databases from prison: How I got here, part 2.

DevFeed: [Working on databases from prison: How I got here, part 2.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/working-on-databases-from-prison-how-i-got-here-part-2-20861.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/working-on-databases-from-prison>)

Author: Preston Thorpe

Published: 2025-06-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>)

Tags: [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>)

## AI overview

Preston Thorpe describes how he learned programming through a prison college program, contributed to open source, and obtained a software engineering role at Turso. He now works on Project Limbo, Turso's effort to rewrite SQLite in Rust.

## Source excerpt

How Preston Thorpe went from a prison cell and a college program to a full-time database engineering role at Turso, working on the SQLite rewrite in Rust.