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  {\Huge \textbf{Prad Nukala}}\\[2pt]
  {\large Senior Blockchain \& 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{Languages}\\[1pt]
Go, Rust, TypeScript, Protobufs, Solidity\\[5pt]
\textbf{Protocols \& Frameworks}\\[1pt]
Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, IBC, EVM, IPFS, libp2p, WebAuthn, DIDs\\[5pt]
\textbf{Infrastructure}\\[1pt]
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Google Cloud, GoReleaser, CI/CD\\[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{Architected a custom Layer-1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, optimizing data serialization and inter-node communication with Protobufs, and secured \$4.7M to build the platform.}
  \item \small{Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022) and onboarded 120+ first-time blockchain developers to the SDK during DevNet.}
  \item \small{Shaped global web standards as a W3C Working Group Member for DIDs, WebAuthn, and WebAssembly (WASM).}
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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'' pipeline with custom Cosmos AnteHandlers validating WebAuthn passkeys at the mempool level, abstracting away seed phrases and transaction fees.}
  \item \small{Bridged Web3 ecosystems with full EVM compatibility alongside CosmWasm contracts, supporting multi-chain token mappings and cross-chain operations over IBC.}
  \item \small{Designed a capability-based authorization system (UCAN + Decentralized Web Nodes) for granular, delegatable access to IPFS-backed encrypted data vaults.}
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\textbf{Token Economics \& Governance} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023}
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  \item \small{Architected the core token model and macroeconomic parameters --- allocation, supply schedules, velocity, and staking emissions --- benchmarked against Uniswap, Compound, and Algorand.}
  \item \small{Designed on-chain governance and DPoS validator incentives, aligning protocol security with cross-chain payments across IBC-connected modules.}
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\textbf{Core Cryptography Library} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
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  \item \small{Implemented MPC and Distributed Key Generation protocols (Threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST) enabling decentralized infrastructure without single points of failure.}
  \item \small{Engineered constant-time elliptic curve arithmetic (secp256k1, Ed25519, BLS12-381) hardened against side-channel attacks, signature malleability, and nonce reuse.}
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{\bfseries Education}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{B.S. in Applied Math} \hfill \textit{2016 -- 2020}\\
\textit{Virginia Commonwealth University}
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