\documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage{paracol} \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} \geometry{a4paper, margin=0.5in} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \setlength{\parskip}{2pt} \columnratio{0.3} \begin{document} {\centering {\Huge \textbf{Prad Nukala}}\\[2pt] {\large Founding Engineer \& Full-Stack Generalist} \par } \vspace{14pt} \begin{paracol}{2} \raggedright \small {\bfseries Contact}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \href{mailto:prnk28@gmail.com}{prnk28@gmail.com}\\[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} \vspace{8pt} {\bfseries Skills}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \textbf{Languages}\\[1pt] Golang, Python, SQL, TypeScript, Rust, JavaScript, Protobufs\\[5pt] \textbf{Backend \& Systems}\\[1pt] API Design, Backend Systems, Distributed Systems, Security, System Architecture, CI/CD\\[5pt] \textbf{AI \& Automation}\\[1pt] Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT\\[5pt] \textbf{Frameworks \& Infra}\\[1pt] React.js, Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions\\[5pt] \textbf{Leadership}\\[1pt] Technical Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration\\[4pt] \vspace{8pt} {\bfseries Honors}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \textbf{Guest Lecturer, Crypto Finance (15.492)}\\[1pt] MIT Sloan School of Management \hfill \textit{2022}\\[4pt] \vspace{8pt} {\bfseries Organizations}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \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] \vspace{8pt} \switchcolumn \normalsize \raggedright {\bfseries Experience}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \textbf{Co-Founder \& CEO} \hfill \textit{Mar 2021 -- Present}\\ \textit{Sonr --- New York, USA} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{Founded the company, secured \$4.7M, and owned a peer-to-peer identity and asset platform end to end --- architecture through production operations.} \item \small{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.} \item \small{Built and operated production cloud infrastructure (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible), managing complex multi-node network deployments.} \item \small{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.} \end{itemize} \vspace{4pt} \textbf{Founder \& iOS Developer} \hfill \textit{Jul 2016 -- May 2019}\\ \textit{Britetwist --- Ashburn, VA} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{Founded an independent app studio and shipped three consumer apps to 1M+ downloads (15,000 peak DAU), owning design through full-stack development.} \end{itemize} \vspace{6pt} {\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \textbf{Client SDK \& Motr Enclave} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{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.} \item \small{Architected ``Motr,'' a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave in sandboxed Web Workers --- MPC signing and UCAN tokens without exposing private keys.} \end{itemize} \vspace{4pt} \textbf{Layer-1 Blockchain \& Identity} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{Designed capability-based permissions (UCAN + Decentralized Web Nodes): granular, time-bound, delegatable access to encrypted data vaults.} \item \small{Integrated automated compliance tooling into the blockchain CLI --- cryptographic proofs and legal filings as auditable, verifiable records.} \end{itemize} \vspace{4pt} \textbf{Beam --- Decentralized E2EE Chat} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2025} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{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.} \item \small{Replaced centralized email/phone auth with WebAuthn passkeys and DIDs, abstracting decentralized routing and cryptographic key management behind a frictionless ``Web2-grade'' chat UX.} \end{itemize} \vspace{4pt} \textbf{Core Cryptography Library} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{Implemented Zero-Knowledge Proof systems (Bulletproofs, accumulators) and MPC/DKG threshold-signature protocols (ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST), eliminating single points of failure in signing infrastructure.} \item \small{Verified correctness with exhaustive automated security tests, race-condition checks, and benchmarks --- constant-time elliptic-curve arithmetic hardened against side-channel timing attacks.} \end{itemize} \vspace{6pt} {\bfseries Education}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \textbf{B.S. in Applied Math} \hfill \textit{2017 -- 2020}\\ \textit{Virginia Commonwealth University} \vspace{4pt} \end{paracol} \end{document}