docs(docs): switch CV to article template and add role YAML configs

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+# Master reference config for tools/generate_cv.py -> cv/main_example.tex.
+# Comprehensive: every experience entry and project with all source bullets
+# verbatim, and full skill groups pulled straight from documents/sources/
+# via `from:` selectors. Used as the grounding/fact source when tailoring
+# role-specific CVs; not sent to employers, so no page limit applies.
+description: Example CV - Prad Nukala. Comprehensive master reference of all competencies, experience, and achievements.
+output: main_example.tex
+headline: Backend, Protocol & Full-Stack Engineer
+
+skills:
+  - group: Languages (Expert)
+    from: languages.expert
+  - group: Languages (Strong)
+    from: languages.strong
+  - group: Languages (Familiar)
+    from: languages.familiar
+  - group: Frameworks & Platforms
+    from: frameworks
+  - group: Methodology & Practice
+    from: methodology
+
+experience:
+  - source: sonr
+  - source: leidos
+  - source: unissant
+  - source: hobsons
+  - source: britetwist
+
+projects:
+  - source: appchain
+  - source: cryptography-library
+  - source: beam-chat
+  - source: client-sdk
+  - source: token-economics
+  - source: ecosystem-devrel
+  - source: decentralized-airdrop
+  - source: yue
+  - source: swiper-no-mauling
+  - source: spacebolt
+  - source: timeboard
+  - source: likely
+  - source: pool
+  - source: voluntree
+  - source: floadt
+  - source: superball
+
+publications:
+  - text: "Nukala, P. (2022). What Web3 can learn from the Mac and the iPhone. Fast Company."
+    url: https://www.fastcompany.com/90814899/web3-lessons-mac-iphone
+  - text: "Nukala, P. (2019). A Deep Dive into Flutter, Parts 1-2. Medium, Flutter Community."
+    url: https://medium.com/flutter-community/deep-dive-in-flutter-b0b827440a49
+  - text: "Building in the decentralized web with Sonr. Workshop, ETHGlobal HackFS (2022)."
+    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy6Xkh9Mvcs
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+# Role config for tools/generate_cv.py.
+# Derived from documents/cv/PradNukala_FoundingEngineer_EICO.tex, with
+# company-specific naming removed. Titles, companies, dates, locations,
+# education, honors, and organizations come from documents/sources/; literal
+# bullets below are condensed rewrites of the matching source descriptions.
+description: Founding Software Engineer example CV (full-stack generalist)
+headline: Founding Software Engineer — Full-Stack Generalist
+education-title: B.S. in Applied Math
+
+# "Distributed Systems" is the archived example CV's (EICO) label for the
+# sources' "Distributed Networking" methodology entry.
+extra-skills:
+  - Distributed Systems
+
+skills:
+  - group: Languages
+    items: [Go (Golang), Python, SQL, TypeScript, Rust, JavaScript, Protobufs]
+  - group: Backend & Systems
+    items: [API Design, Backend Systems, Distributed Systems, Security Testing, System Architecture, CI/CD]
+  - group: AI & Automation
+    items: [Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT]
+  - group: Frameworks & Infra
+    items: [React.js, Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions]
+  - group: Leadership
+    items: [Technical Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration]
+
+experience:
+  - source: sonr
+    bullets:
+      - "Founded the company, secured $4.7M, and owned a peer-to-peer identity and asset platform end to end — architecture through production operations."
+      - "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."
+      - "Built and operated production cloud infrastructure (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible), managing complex multi-node network deployments."
+      - "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."
+  - source: britetwist
+    title: Founder & iOS Developer
+    bullets:
+      - "Founded an independent app studio and shipped three consumer apps to 1M+ downloads (15,000 peak DAU), owning design through full-stack development."
+
+projects:
+  - source: client-sdk
+    title: Client SDK & Motr Enclave
+    bullets:
+      - "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."
+      - "Architected “Motr,” a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave in sandboxed Web Workers — MPC signing and UCAN tokens without exposing private keys."
+  - source: appchain
+    title: Layer-1 Blockchain & Identity
+    bullets:
+      - "Designed capability-based permissions (UCAN + Decentralized Web Nodes): granular, time-bound, delegatable access to encrypted data vaults."
+      - "Integrated automated compliance tooling into the blockchain CLI — cryptographic proofs and legal filings as auditable, verifiable records."
+  - source: beam-chat
+    title: Beam — Decentralized E2EE Chat
+    bullets:
+      - "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."
+      - "Replaced centralized email/phone auth with WebAuthn passkeys and DIDs, abstracting decentralized routing and cryptographic key management behind a frictionless “Web2-grade” chat UX."
+  - source: cryptography-library
+    title: Core Cryptography Library
+    bullets:
+      - "Implemented Zero-Knowledge Proof systems (Bulletproofs, accumulators) and MPC/DKG threshold-signature protocols (ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST), eliminating single points of failure in signing infrastructure."
+      - "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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+# Role config for tools/generate_cv.py.
+# Derived from documents/cv/PradNukala_SeniorBackendEngineer_EllipsisLabs.tex,
+# with company-specific naming removed. Titles, companies, dates, locations,
+# education, honors, and organizations come from documents/sources/; literal
+# bullets below are condensed rewrites of the matching source descriptions.
+description: Senior Software Engineer example CV (backend & protocol)
+headline: Senior Software Engineer — Backend & Protocol
+education-title: B.S. in Applied Math
+
+# Labels the source YAML does not spell out verbatim but the archived
+# example CV (EllipsisLabs) intentionally used; EVM/IBC are grounded in
+# projects/appchain.yml bullets, Unix/Linux in sonr.yml Linux Administration.
+extra-skills:
+  - Unix
+  - Linux
+  - IBC
+  - EVM
+
+skills:
+  - group: Core
+    items: [Go (Golang), Rust, C, C++, AWS, TypeScript, Protobufs]
+  - group: Backend & Infrastructure
+    items: [Unix, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Google Cloud, CI/CD]
+  - group: Blockchain & DeFi
+    items: [Solana, Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, IBC, EVM, IPFS, libp2p, WebAuthn, DIDs]
+  - group: Management & AI Tools
+    items: [Engineering Management, Claude, ChatGPT]
+
+experience:
+  - source: sonr
+    bullets:
+      - "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."
+      - use: 3
+      - "Deployed and operated production infrastructure on Google Cloud, managing complex network deployments with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and comprehensive Linux administration."
+      - "Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021 – Oct 2022) and onboarded 120+ first-time blockchain developers."
+
+projects:
+  - source: appchain
+    title: Layer-1 Blockchain & Identity
+    bullets:
+      - "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."
+      - "Built and operated multi-node testnets with Kubernetes (Starship), Docker, and Devbox, automating multi-architecture CI/CD with GoReleaser."
+      - "Delivered full EVM compatibility alongside CosmWasm contracts, supporting multi-chain token mappings and cross-chain IBC operations."
+  - source: cryptography-library
+    title: Core Cryptography Library
+    bullets:
+      - "Engineered constant-time elliptic curve arithmetic in Go (secp256k1, Ed25519, BLS12-381), strictly hardened against side-channel timing attacks, signature malleability, and nonce reuse."
+      - "Implemented Zero-Knowledge Proof systems — Bulletproofs and cryptographic accumulators — with Fiat-Shamir non-interactive verification."
+      - "Shipped MPC and Distributed Key Generation protocols (Threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST), backed by exhaustive automated security tests, race-condition checks, and performance benchmarks."
+  - source: token-economics
+    title: Token Economics & Governance
+    dates: "2022"
+    bullets:
+      - "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."
+      - "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."
+  - source: client-sdk
+    title: Client SDK & Motr Enclave
+    bullets:
+      - "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."
+      - "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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+# Role config for tools/generate_cv.py.
+# Derived from documents/cv/PradNukala_StaffSoftwareEngineer_Circle.tex,
+# with company-specific naming removed. Titles, companies, dates, locations,
+# education, honors, and organizations come from documents/sources/; literal
+# bullets below are condensed rewrites of the matching source descriptions.
+description: Staff Software Engineer example CV (blockchain & payments infrastructure)
+headline: Staff Software Engineer — Blockchain & Payments Infrastructure
+education-title: B.S. in Applied Math
+
+# Labels the source YAML does not spell out verbatim but the archived
+# example CV (Circle) intentionally used; grounded in source descriptions
+# (EVM/IBC bullets in projects/appchain.yml) or profile-vouched (Solidity).
+extra-skills:
+  - Solidity
+  - IBC
+  - EVM
+  - Microservices
+  - Technical Presentations
+  - AI-assisted Development Workflows
+
+skills:
+  - group: Languages
+    items: [Go (Golang), Java, TypeScript, SQL, Solidity, Protobufs]
+  - group: Blockchain & Payments
+    items: [Cosmos SDK, IBC, EVM, CosmWasm, API Design (REST/gRPC), WebAuthn, DIDs]
+  - group: Infrastructure
+    items: [Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, CI/CD]
+  - group: Leadership & Communication
+    items: [Technical Presentations, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Developer Relations, Startup Fundraising]
+  - group: AI & Automation
+    items: [ChatGPT, Claude, AI-assisted Development Workflows]
+
+experience:
+  - source: sonr
+    bullets:
+      - "Architected a custom Layer-1 blockchain in Go on the Cosmos SDK — modular state machine with Protobuf/gRPC services and REST gateways — and secured $4.7M to build the platform."
+      - "Directed technical strategy for a cross-functional engineering team across protocol, cryptography, and client SDKs; onboarded 120+ first-time blockchain developers to public APIs during DevNet."
+      - "Built production infrastructure on Kubernetes and Google Cloud with Terraform — multi-node testnets and GoReleaser multi-architecture CI/CD — with test coverage gating continuous delivery."
+  - source: leidos
+    bullets:
+      - "Shipped features for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mobile Passport app used by millions of travelers, meeting strict federal security, privacy, and accessibility standards."
+  - source: britetwist
+    title: Founder & iOS Developer
+    bullets:
+      - "Founded an independent app studio and shipped three consumer apps to 1M+ total downloads, owning product end-to-end from design through full-stack development."
+
+projects:
+  - source: appchain
+    title: Cross-Chain Value Transfer & Tokenization
+    bullets:
+      - "Implemented full EVM compatibility alongside CosmWasm smart contracts, supporting multi-chain token mappings and cross-chain value transfer over IBC."
+      - "Engineered a “Gasless Onboarding” pipeline with custom Cosmos AnteHandlers validating WebAuthn passkeys at the mempool level — an API surface hiding seed phrases and fees behind familiar Web2 flows."
+  - source: token-economics
+    title: Token Economics & Payment Design
+    dates: 2022 - 2023
+    bullets:
+      - "Architected the network token model with 6 PhD economists (Prysm Group) — allocation, supply schedules, velocity, and staking emissions — benchmarked against Uniswap, Compound, and Algorand."
+      - "Structured the token as the means of payment across protocol modules and designed DPoS validator incentives aligning network security with cross-chain payments over IBC."
+  - source: cryptography-library
+    title: Core Cryptography & Key Management
+    bullets:
+      - "Implemented MPC and Distributed Key Generation protocols (Threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST) in Go, removing single points of failure from transaction-signing infrastructure."