jobyssey/documents/cv/PradNukala_FoundingEngineer_EICO.tex

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  {\Huge \textbf{Prad Nukala}}\\[2pt]
  {\large Founding Engineer \& Full-Stack Generalist}
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{\bfseries Contact}\\[2pt]
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\href{mailto:prad@nuka.la}{prad@nuka.la}\\[2pt]
+ 1 646-508-7789\\[2pt]
\href{https://prad.nu}{Website}\\[2pt]
\href{https://linkedin.com/in/pradn}{LinkedIn}\\[2pt]
\href{https://github.com/prdlk}{GitHub}\\[2pt]
\href{https://twitter.com/basedprad}{Twitter}

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{\bfseries Skills}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Languages}\\[1pt]
Golang, Python, SQL, TypeScript, Rust, JavaScript, Protobufs\\[5pt]
\textbf{Backend \& Systems}\\[1pt]
API Design, Backend Systems, Distributed Systems, Security, System Architecture, CI/CD\\[5pt]
\textbf{AI \& Automation}\\[1pt]
Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT\\[5pt]
\textbf{Frameworks \& Infra}\\[1pt]
React.js, Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions\\[5pt]
\textbf{Leadership}\\[1pt]
Technical Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration\\[4pt]

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{\bfseries Honors}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Guest Lecturer, Crypto Finance (15.492)}\\[1pt]
MIT Sloan School of Management \hfill \textit{2022}\\[4pt]

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{\bfseries Organizations}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Decentralized Identity Foundation}\\[1pt]
Working Group for UCAN/DWN\\[4pt]
\textbf{World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)}\\[1pt]
Working Group for DID/WebAuthn/WASM\\[2pt]

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{\bfseries Experience}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Co-Founder \& CEO} \hfill \textit{Mar 2021 -- Present}\\
\textit{Sonr --- New York, USA}
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  \item \small{Founded the company, secured \$4.7M, and owned a peer-to-peer identity and asset platform end to end --- architecture through production operations.}
  \item \small{Directed technical strategy for a cross-functional team spanning the full stack: React Native product surfaces, a custom Cosmos SDK Layer-1 backend, and edge infrastructure on Cloudflare Workers.}
  \item \small{Built and operated production cloud infrastructure (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible), managing complex multi-node network deployments.}
  \item \small{Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022) and onboarded 120+ first-time developers through hands-on workshops and SDK support.}
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\textbf{Founder \& iOS Developer} \hfill \textit{Jul 2016 -- May 2019}\\
\textit{Britetwist --- Ashburn, VA}
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  \item \small{Founded an independent app studio and shipped three consumer apps to 1M+ downloads (15,000 peak DAU), owning design through full-stack development.}
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{\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Client SDK \& Motr Enclave} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023}
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  \item \small{Built an edge-native orchestration layer on Cloudflare Workers (Durable Objects, KV, Service Bindings) managing persistent sessions, smart routing, and state synchronization across a decentralized network.}
  \item \small{Architected ``Motr,'' a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave in sandboxed Web Workers --- MPC signing and UCAN tokens without exposing private keys.}
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\textbf{Layer-1 Blockchain \& Identity} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
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  \item \small{Designed capability-based permissions (UCAN + Decentralized Web Nodes): granular, time-bound, delegatable access to encrypted data vaults.}
  \item \small{Integrated automated compliance tooling into the blockchain CLI --- cryptographic proofs and legal filings as auditable, verifiable records.}
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\textbf{Beam --- Decentralized E2EE Chat} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2025}
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  \item \small{Led a 6-engineer cross-functional team across mobile, infrastructure, and product, shipping a cross-platform React Native messenger with end-to-end encryption over a customized Matrix protocol.}
  \item \small{Replaced centralized email/phone auth with WebAuthn passkeys and DIDs, abstracting decentralized routing and cryptographic key management behind a frictionless ``Web2-grade'' chat UX.}
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\textbf{Core Cryptography Library} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
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  \item \small{Implemented Zero-Knowledge Proof systems (Bulletproofs, accumulators) and MPC/DKG threshold-signature protocols (ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST), eliminating single points of failure in signing infrastructure.}
  \item \small{Verified correctness with exhaustive automated security tests, race-condition checks, and benchmarks --- constant-time elliptic-curve arithmetic hardened against side-channel timing attacks.}
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{\bfseries Education}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{B.S. in Applied Math} \hfill \textit{2017 -- 2020}\\
\textit{Virginia Commonwealth University}
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