\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 Senior Backend \& Protocol Engineer} \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{Core}\\[1pt] Golang, Rust, C, C++, AWS, TypeScript, Protobufs\\[5pt] \textbf{Backend \& Infrastructure}\\[1pt] Unix, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Google Cloud, CI/CD\\[5pt] \textbf{Blockchain \& DeFi}\\[1pt] Solana, Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, IBC, EVM, IPFS, libp2p, WebAuthn, DIDs\\[5pt] \textbf{Management \& AI Tools}\\[1pt] Engineering Management, Claude, ChatGPT\\[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 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.} \item \small{Architected a custom Layer-1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, optimizing data serialization and inter-node network communication with Protobufs.} \item \small{Deployed and operated production infrastructure on Google Cloud, managing complex network deployments with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and comprehensive Linux administration.} \item \small{Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022) and onboarded 120+ first-time blockchain developers.} \end{itemize} \vspace{6pt} {\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \textbf{Layer-1 Blockchain \& Identity} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{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.} \item \small{Built and operated multi-node testnets with Kubernetes (Starship), Docker, and Devbox, automating multi-architecture CI/CD with GoReleaser.} \item \small{Delivered full EVM compatibility alongside CosmWasm contracts, supporting multi-chain token mappings and cross-chain IBC operations.} \end{itemize} \vspace{4pt} \textbf{Core Cryptography Library} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{Engineered constant-time elliptic curve arithmetic in Go (secp256k1, Ed25519, BLS12-381), strictly hardened against side-channel timing attacks, signature malleability, and nonce reuse.} \item \small{Implemented Zero-Knowledge Proof systems --- Bulletproofs and cryptographic accumulators --- with Fiat-Shamir non-interactive verification.} \item \small{Shipped MPC and Distributed Key Generation protocols (Threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST), backed by exhaustive automated security tests, race-condition checks, and performance benchmarks.} \end{itemize} \vspace{4pt} \textbf{Token Economics \& Governance} \hfill \textit{2022} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \item \small{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.} \item \small{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.} \end{itemize} \vspace{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 real-time state synchronization across a decentralized network.} \item \small{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.} \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}