From Prison Cell to Turso Software Engineer: A Hacker News Story
2025-06-16

An incarcerated programmer, serving time for drug-related offenses, landed a software engineering job at Turso. Using limited prison internet access, he dedicated himself to coding, contributing to open-source projects, and ultimately impressed Turso with his work on Project Limbo, a rewrite of SQLite. His story highlights perseverance, second chances, and the power of open source.
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