# Salvo Bonsma

> Computer Science at the University of Washington - robotics software, real-time systems, full-stack.

Personal site of Salvo Bonsma. Studying Computer Science at the University of Washington, focused on robotics software, real-time systems, and full-stack development. Clean markdown copies: home at /index.md, blog index at /blog.md, and each blog post at /blog/<slug>.md.

## 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) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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.