%% Example CV - Prad Nukala
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% personal data
\name{Prad}{Nukala}
\address{New York, NY, USA}{}{}
\phone[mobile]{+1 (646) 508-7789}
\email{prnk28@gmail.com}
\extrainfo{\href{https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradn}{LinkedIn}, \href{https://github.com/prdlk}{GitHub}, \href{https://prad.nu}{prad.nu}}

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\makecvtitle

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%     PROFILE STATEMENT
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\vspace{6pt}
\small{Backend and protocol engineer with 10+ years shipping software and five years owning a production Layer-1 end to end. Co-founded Sonr and raised \$4.7M to build a Cosmos SDK chain in Go with Protobuf/gRPC services, EVM and CosmWasm compatibility, and IBC cross-chain transfer; operated its 4-node testnet at 99\% uptime on Kubernetes and Terraform. Wrote the supporting cryptography myself (MPC/DKG, threshold signatures, constant-time curve arithmetic) and led a 6-engineer team shipping a React Native E2EE messenger. W3C and DIF working-group member. Uses Claude Code daily for AI-assisted development.}

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%     CORE COMPETENCIES
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\section{Core Competencies}
\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}

\item \textbf{Backend \& Protocol Engineering}: Go, TypeScript, Protobuf/gRPC, REST; Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, IBC, CosmWasm, EVM; modular state machines, mempool/AnteHandler design, validator operations.

\item \textbf{Applied Cryptography \& Identity}: MPC/DKG, threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST, Bulletproofs, constant-time secp256k1/Ed25519/BLS12-381; WebAuthn/passkeys, W3C DIDs, UCAN, DWN; Go-to-WASM signing enclaves.

\item \textbf{Infrastructure \& DevOps}: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Google Cloud, AWS (Lambda, SageMaker), Cloudflare Workers (Durable Objects, KV), GitHub Actions, GoReleaser, KMS.

\item \textbf{Mobile \& Full-Stack}: React Native, Flutter/Dart, Swift, Kotlin, React.js, PostgreSQL/SQLite; consumer apps at 1M+ downloads; Fastlane CI/CD to App Store and Play Store.

\item \textbf{Leadership \& Communication}: Founded and ran a 7-FTE company plus two agencies; $\$$4.7M raised; token-economics design with Prysm Group; onboarded 120+ developers through workshops; MIT Sloan guest lecturer; Fast Company byline. AI-assisted workflows with Claude Code.

\end{itemize}

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%     PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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\section{Professional Experience}
\vspace{3pt}
\begin{itemize}

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\item{\cventry{2021-Present}{Co-Founder \& CEO}{Sonr}{New York, NY, USA}{}{\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
    \item {Founded the company and secured \$4.7M to build a peer-to-peer identity and asset-management system on DIDs, WebAuthn, and IPFS; directed 7 full-time staff and two specialist agencies.}
    \item {Architected a custom Layer-1 blockchain in Go on the Cosmos SDK: modular state machine, Protobuf/gRPC services, REST gateways, EVM and CosmWasm compatibility, IBC transfers. Top contributor (692 commits) on \href{https://github.com/sonr-io/sonr}{sonr-io/sonr} (642 stars).}
    \item {Engineered ``Gasless Onboarding'': custom AnteHandlers validate WebAuthn passkeys at the mempool level so new users never see seed phrases or fees.}
    \item {Operated the testnet across 4 validator nodes (SF, NY, VA, Asia) with KMS-secured profiles on Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible, sustaining 99\% uptime.}
    \item {Implemented and shipped the \href{https://github.com/sonr-io/crypto}{core cryptography library}: MPC/DKG, threshold signatures, Bulletproofs, constant-time curves, AES-GCM, Argon2id, with automated security tests and benchmarks.}
    \item {Led a 6-engineer team shipping Beam, a cross-platform React Native E2EE messenger over a customized Matrix homeserver with passkey-wallet login replacing email/phone auth.}
    \item {Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021 - Oct 2022) and onboarded 120+ first-time blockchain developers at DevNet workshops (PennApps, CalHacks, ETHGlobal HackFS).}
    \item {Led the 2026 pivot to B2B white-label wallet infrastructure through hands-on customer discovery.}
\end{itemize}}}

\vspace{3pt}

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\item{\cventry{Aug 2020 - May 2021}{Mobile App Developer}{Leidos}{Herndon, VA, USA}{}{\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
    \item {Shipped Flutter/Dart features for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mobile Passport app, used by millions of travelers, within federal security, privacy, and accessibility standards.}
\end{itemize}}}

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\item{\cventry{May 2019 - Aug 2019}{Data Science Intern}{Unissant}{Herndon, VA, USA}{}{\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
    \item {Deployed an ML fraud-detection model on AWS SageMaker over healthcare data and a React front end on AWS Lambda to query it in real time; delivered as a consulting POC.}
\end{itemize}}}

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\item{\cventry{May 2018 - Aug 2018}{Software Engineering Intern}{Hobsons}{Arlington, VA, USA}{}{\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
    \item {Built a Java/Spring Boot sync-monitoring service and AngularJS dashboard whose self-serve tooling cut sales QA response times from days to minutes.}
\end{itemize}}}

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\item{\cventry{2015-2019}{iOS Developer (Founder)}{BriteTwist}{Ashburn, VA, USA}{}{\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
    \item {Founded an independent app studio and shipped three consumer apps to 1M+ total downloads: \href{https://github.com/prdlk/spacebolt}{Space Bolt} (15,000 DAU, 850k downloads), \href{https://github.com/prdlk/voluntree}{VolunTree} (1,250 MAU), and \href{https://github.com/prdlk/yue}{Yue} (shipped to iOS and Android in 26 hours).}
    \item {Authored three technical articles on architecture and game development with 120k+ total reads.}
\end{itemize}}}

\end{itemize}

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%     EDUCATION
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\section{Education}
\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}

\item{\cventry{2016-2020}{B.S. in Applied Mathematics}{Virginia Commonwealth University}{Richmond, VA, USA}{}{\vspace{1pt}
Linear algebra, number theory, topological data analysis. Five MLH hackathons, including PennApps XIX (\href{https://devpost.com/software/swiper-no-mauling}{YOLOv3 livestock-protection system}) and HackHarvard 2017 (\href{https://github.com/anthonyanader/timeboARd}{ARKit whiteboard capture}).
}}

\end{itemize}

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%     LANGUAGES
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\section{Languages}
\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
\item {English (native), Telugu.}
\end{itemize}

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%     PUBLICATIONS
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\section{Publications and Talks}
\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
\item {Nukala, P. (2022). What Web3 can learn from the Mac and the iPhone. \textit{Fast Company}. \href{https://www.fastcompany.com/90814899/web3-lessons-mac-iphone}{Link}}
\item {Nukala, P. (2019). A Deep Dive into Flutter, Parts 1-2. \textit{Medium, Flutter Community}. \href{https://medium.com/flutter-community/deep-dive-in-flutter-b0b827440a49}{Link}}
\item {Building in the decentralized web with Sonr. Workshop, ETHGlobal HackFS (2022). \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy6Xkh9Mvcs}{Video}}
\end{itemize}

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%     HONORS AND AWARDS
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\section{Honors and Affiliations}
\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
\item{\textbf{Guest Lecturer, Crypto Finance (15.492)} -- MIT Sloan School of Management (2022).}
\item{\textbf{4th-highest global GitHub contributions} -- Oct 2021 to Oct 2022.}
\item{\textbf{W3C Working Group member} (DID, WebAuthn, WASM); \textbf{DIF Working Group member} (UCAN, DWN).}
\end{itemize}

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%     REFERENCES
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\section{References}
\vspace{1pt}
\begin{itemize}
\item{Available upon request.}
\end{itemize}

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