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  {\Huge \textbf{Prad Nukala}}\\[2pt]
  {\large Founding Engineer \& Full-Stack Builder}
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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}

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{\bfseries Skills}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Languages}\\[1pt]
TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Dart\\[5pt]
\textbf{Frameworks}\\[1pt]
React, React Native, Next.js, Flutter, Cosmos SDK, Cloudflare Workers\\[5pt]
\textbf{Leadership}\\[1pt]
Fundraising, Technical Strategy, Product Management, Team Leadership, Developer Relations\\[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{Founded the startup and led executive fundraising, securing \$4.7M to build a peer-to-peer identity and asset management platform from zero to production.}
  \item \small{Directed technical strategy and led a cross-functional engineering team across mobile (React Native), a Cosmos SDK Layer-1, and edge infrastructure.}
  \item \small{Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022) and onboarded 120+ developers through hands-on technical workshops.}
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\textbf{Founder \& iOS Developer} \hfill \textit{Jul 2016 -- May 2019}\\
\textit{Britetwist --- Ashburn, VA}
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  \item \small{Founded an independent app studio and shipped three apps to 1M+ total downloads, including 15,000 DAU for the game Space Bolt and a peer-to-peer volunteer network.}
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{\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Beam --- Decentralized E2EE Chat} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2025}
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  \item \small{Led a cross-functional team building a cross-platform React Native messenger with end-to-end encryption over a heavily customized decentralized Matrix protocol.}
  \item \small{Replaced centralized auth with passwordless DID onboarding, abstracting key management into a frictionless ``Web2-grade'' chat experience.}
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\textbf{Client SDK \& Motr Enclave} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023}
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  \item \small{Architected a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave and an edge orchestration layer on Cloudflare Workers (Durable Objects, KV) for persistent cross-platform sessions.}
  \item \small{Shipped a WebAuthn + OAuth 2.0 auth bridge giving developers passwordless, seed-phrase-free onboarding out of the box.}
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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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