jobyssey/documents/cv/PradNukala_SeniorBackendEngineer_EllipsisLabs.tex

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  {\Huge \textbf{Prad Nukala}}\\[2pt]
  {\large Senior Backend \& Protocol Engineer}
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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{Core}\\[1pt]
Golang, Rust, C, C++, AWS, TypeScript, Protobufs\\[5pt]
\textbf{Backend \& Infrastructure}\\[1pt]
Unix, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Google Cloud, CI/CD\\[5pt]
\textbf{Blockchain \& DeFi}\\[1pt]
Solana, Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, IBC, EVM, IPFS, libp2p, WebAuthn, DIDs\\[5pt]
\textbf{Management \& AI Tools}\\[1pt]
Engineering Management, Claude, ChatGPT\\[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 and secured \$4.7M to build a peer-to-peer identity and asset network, owning systems end to end --- specification, architecture, implementation, testing, and maintenance.}
  \item \small{Architected a custom Layer-1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, optimizing data serialization and inter-node network communication with Protobufs.}
  \item \small{Deployed and operated production infrastructure on Google Cloud, managing complex network deployments with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and comprehensive Linux administration.}
  \item \small{Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022) and onboarded 120+ first-time blockchain developers.}
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{\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Layer-1 Blockchain \& Identity} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
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  \item \small{Engineered a ``Gasless Onboarding'' transaction pipeline with custom Cosmos AnteHandlers intercepting and validating WebAuthn credentials at the mempool level, abstracting away seed phrases and fees.}
  \item \small{Built and operated multi-node testnets with Kubernetes (Starship), Docker, and Devbox, automating multi-architecture CI/CD with GoReleaser.}
  \item \small{Delivered full EVM compatibility alongside CosmWasm contracts, supporting multi-chain token mappings and cross-chain IBC operations.}
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\textbf{Core Cryptography Library} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
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  \item \small{Engineered constant-time elliptic curve arithmetic in Go (secp256k1, Ed25519, BLS12-381), strictly hardened against side-channel timing attacks, signature malleability, and nonce reuse.}
  \item \small{Implemented Zero-Knowledge Proof systems --- Bulletproofs and cryptographic accumulators --- with Fiat-Shamir non-interactive verification.}
  \item \small{Shipped MPC and Distributed Key Generation protocols (Threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST), backed by exhaustive automated security tests, race-condition checks, and performance benchmarks.}
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\textbf{Token Economics \& Governance} \hfill \textit{2022}
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  \item \small{Architected the token model and macroeconomic parameters --- allocation, supply schedules, velocity, and staking emissions --- for a DPoS network, benchmarked against DeFi protocols Uniswap and Compound.}
  \item \small{Translated economic models --- price-shock absorption, lockup vesting, and subsidy schedules --- into Layer-1 state machine and smart-contract logic alongside 6 PhD economists from Prysm Group.}
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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 real-time state synchronization across a decentralized network.}
  \item \small{Architected ``Motr,'' a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave running in client-side Web Workers, handling MPC and signing without exposing private keys to the main thread.}
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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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