jobyssey/documents/cv/PradNukala_FoundingEngineer_FinTech.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{Core}\\[1pt]
TypeScript, Next.js, Python, C\#, Go, Full-Stack Development, SQL, Protobufs\\[5pt]
\textbf{Cloud \& Infra}\\[1pt]
Cloudflare Workers, AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions\\[5pt]
\textbf{Systems}\\[1pt]
System Architecture, Distributed Systems, API Design, CI/CD, Technical Leadership, Stakeholder Communication\\[5pt]
\textbf{AI \& Dev Tools}\\[1pt]
Cursor, AI-Assisted Development, Linux (Arch), Vim\\[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 take a peer-to-peer identity and asset-management platform 0-to-1 into production, owning architecture, implementation, and reliability end to end.}
  \item \small{Directed a cross-functional team spanning the full stack: React Native front-ends, an event-driven Cosmos SDK Layer-1 ledger with asynchronous cross-chain (IBC) messaging, and Cloudflare Workers infrastructure.}
  \item \small{Built and operated production infrastructure on Google Cloud --- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible --- managing multi-node network deployments.}
  \item \small{Ranked 4th globally in GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022); onboarded 120+ first-time developers through hands-on workshops and SDK support.}
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\textbf{Data Science Intern} \hfill \textit{May 2019 -- Aug 2019}\\
\textit{Unissant --- Herndon, VA}
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  \item \small{Deployed a machine-learning fraud-detection model on AWS SageMaker (Python) and built a client-facing React app on serverless AWS Lambda to query it in real time.}
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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 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 orchestration layer on Cloudflare Workers (Durable Objects, KV, Service Bindings) managing persistent sessions and state synchronization.}
  \item \small{Architected a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave executing MPC signing and UCAN token generation without exposing private keys.}
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\textbf{Layer-1 Blockchain \& Identity} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
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  \item \small{Designed a capability-based permissions system (UCAN + Decentralized Web Nodes) granting time-bound, delegatable access to encrypted IPFS vaults.}
  \item \small{Integrated automated legal-compliance tooling into the blockchain CLI, generating cryptographic proofs and regulatory filings (Wyoming DAO LC).}
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\textbf{Token Economics \& Payment Design} \hfill \textit{2022}
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  \item \small{Architected the network token model with 6 PhD economists (Prysm Group): allocation, supply schedules, velocity, and staking-reward emissions.}
  \item \small{Structured the token as the means of payment across protocol modules, translating economic models into Layer-1 state-machine logic.}
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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 shipping a cross-platform React Native messenger with end-to-end encryption over a customized Matrix protocol.}
  \item \small{Replaced centralized auth with WebAuthn passkeys and DIDs, abstracting routing and key management behind a frictionless ``Web2-grade'' chat UX.}
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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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