Senpai Pete Bosanko moved to the Ithaca area in 1984. He has been a student of Seido Karate since 2010, when he decided to stop watching his family train and joined them! He has previously studied Aikido, and is particularly fond of the rolls, falls, and grappling techniques that we practice at the dojo.

Senpai Pete has been a professional software engineer for more than 30 years, and currently manages an IT team at Cornell University. Senpai Pete holds the rank of Sandan (3rd Degree Black Belt), which he earned in 2022. He has been an instructor of PeeWee and Junior students since 2016. He lives in Lansing with his wife and two boys.