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  {\Huge \textbf{Prad Nukala}}\\[2pt]
  {\large Applied Cryptography \& Security Engineer}
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{\bfseries Contact}\\[2pt]
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\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}

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{\bfseries Skills}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Languages}\\[1pt]
Go, Rust, C, TypeScript\\[5pt]
\textbf{Cryptography}\\[1pt]
Zero-Knowledge Proofs, MPC / DKG, Threshold Signatures, Elliptic Curves, WebAuthn, WASM\\[5pt]
\textbf{Security}\\[1pt]
Constant-Time Implementation, Side-Channel Hardening, Security Testing, Protocol Design\\[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{Led development of a peer-to-peer identity system built on decentralized identifiers (DIDs), WebAuthn, and IPFS, securing \$4.7M to build the platform.}
  \item \small{Shaped global web standards as a W3C Working Group Member for DIDs, WebAuthn, and WebAssembly (WASM), and as a DIF member for UCAN/DWN.}
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{\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Core Cryptography Library} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
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  \item \small{Implemented Zero-Knowledge Proof systems --- Bulletproofs (range and inner-product proofs) and cryptographic accumulators --- using the Fiat-Shamir heuristic for non-interactive verification.}
  \item \small{Designed MPC and Distributed Key Generation protocols (Threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST, Gennaro) for decentralized infrastructure without single points of failure.}
  \item \small{Engineered constant-time elliptic curve arithmetic (secp256k1, Ed25519, BLS12-381, NIST P-Curves) hardened against side-channel timing attacks, signature malleability, and nonce reuse.}
  \item \small{Hardened security with AES-GCM authenticated encryption and Argon2id key derivation, backed by exhaustive automated security tests, race-condition checks, and benchmarks.}
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\textbf{Motr Cryptographic Enclave} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023}
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  \item \small{Architected ``Motr,'' a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave running in client-side Web Workers, handling MPC, signing, and UCAN token generation without exposing private keys to the main thread.}
  \item \small{Built a WebAuthn (Passkeys/Biometrics) + OAuth 2.0 authentication bridge enabling passwordless, seed-phrase-free onboarding directly within the SDK.}
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{\bfseries Education}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{B.S. in Applied Math} \hfill \textit{2016 -- 2020}\\
\textit{Virginia Commonwealth University}
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