# Salvo Bonsma

> Studying Computer Science at the University of Washington, focused on robotics software, real-time systems, and full-stack development

Source: https://salvobonsma.com/

Hi, I'm Salvo (Salvatore) Bonsma. I build robotics software and fast, simple web
apps. Below are a few things I've made; you can also read the [blog](/blog/) or
get in touch.

## About

I'm studying computer science at the University of Washington (B.S. expected
2028), focused on robotics software, real-time systems, and full-stack
development. I've been the lead software contributor on a nationally competitive
FRC team and like building tools that make hard things feel simple.

## Projects

### FIRST Robotics Competition (2025 - Present)

Programming lead on a nationally competitive FRC team (Hawaiian Kids Robotics). Rearchitected the robot software around industry-standard patterns; built a physics-based simulation environment and a logging + log-replay pipeline that reproduces bugs against recorded match data, a real-time pub/sub live-tuning system, a five-camera fiducial-marker pose-estimation pipeline fused with wheel-encoder odometry, and modular autonomous routines with a custom point-to-point motion controller.

### Pulse (2024 - Present)
Source: https://pulsefrc.app

Founded and built Pulse, a real-time web platform for the competitive robotics community, using Next.js and WebSockets. Owned the full product lifecycle end-to-end: UI/UX design, front-end application logic, back-end services, and deployment.

### Learn Rust (2026 - Present)
Source: https://learnrust.net

Founded and authored a free 26-chapter course modeled on learncpp.com that teaches Rust from first principles through ownership, traits, generics, async, smart pointers, and unsafe/FFI. Every code example is machine-verified to compile and run against the current Rust toolchain before publication.

### InnovatED (2023 - Present)
Source: https://getinnovated.org

Co-founded a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on STEM educational equity, and built the systems that distributed custom PCB kits free to low-income households.

### Discord Weather Bot (2021 - 2022)
Source: https://discord.com/discovery/applications/1039748575866916935

Built a Discord bot that delivers on-demand weather forecasts and current conditions to servers, pulling live data from a weather API.