Maintainer Month 2023: Behind the scenes with Rushmore Mushambi

In an interview with Feranmi Okafor, Rushmore Mushambi, a senior software engineer and the first engineering hire at SurrealDB, shares his journey from an accounting background in Zimbabwe to becoming a passionate software engineer specializing in Rust. Mushambi's interest in technology began during his school years when he first encountered the Internet, leading him to self-teach software engineering alongside his university studies in accounting. His professional journey includes developing open-source projects primarily in Rust, with notable contributions like the publicsuffix crate used by 1Password. Mushambi's transition to SurrealDB was driven by his longstanding passion for databases, culminating in his role maintaining the Rust API layer and WebAssembly library. He explains SurrealDB's modular architecture, highlighting its storage engines, query layer, and the API layer, which facilitates interaction as an embedded database or a remote server connection. Mushambi expresses gratitude for his role in advancing the innovative capabilities of SurrealDB.