diff --git a/src/protocol.tex b/src/protocol.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd62055 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/protocol.tex @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +\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 Blockchain \& 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} + +\vspace{8pt} + +{\bfseries Skills}\\[2pt] +\rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] +\textbf{Languages}\\[1pt] +Go, Rust, TypeScript, Protobufs, Solidity\\[5pt] +\textbf{Protocols \& Frameworks}\\[1pt] +Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, IBC, EVM, IPFS, libp2p, WebAuthn, DIDs\\[5pt] +\textbf{Infrastructure}\\[1pt] +Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Google Cloud, GoReleaser, CI/CD\\[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{Architected a custom Layer-1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, optimizing data serialization and inter-node communication with Protobufs, and secured \$4.7M to build the platform.} + \item \small{Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022) and onboarded 120+ first-time blockchain developers to the SDK during DevNet.} + \item \small{Shaped global web standards as a W3C Working Group Member for DIDs, WebAuthn, and WebAssembly (WASM).} +\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'' pipeline with custom Cosmos AnteHandlers validating WebAuthn passkeys at the mempool level, abstracting away seed phrases and transaction fees.} + \item \small{Bridged Web3 ecosystems with full EVM compatibility alongside CosmWasm contracts, supporting multi-chain token mappings and cross-chain operations over IBC.} + \item \small{Designed a capability-based authorization system (UCAN + Decentralized Web Nodes) for granular, delegatable access to IPFS-backed encrypted data vaults.} +\end{itemize} +\vspace{4pt} +\textbf{Token Economics \& Governance} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023} +\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] + \item \small{Architected the core token model and macroeconomic parameters --- allocation, supply schedules, velocity, and staking emissions --- benchmarked against Uniswap, Compound, and Algorand.} + \item \small{Designed on-chain governance and DPoS validator incentives, aligning protocol security with cross-chain payments across IBC-connected modules.} +\end{itemize} +\vspace{4pt} +\textbf{Core Cryptography Library} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present} +\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] + \item \small{Implemented MPC and Distributed Key Generation protocols (Threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST) enabling decentralized infrastructure without single points of failure.} + \item \small{Engineered constant-time elliptic curve arithmetic (secp256k1, Ed25519, BLS12-381) hardened against side-channel attacks, signature malleability, and nonce reuse.} +\end{itemize} +\vspace{6pt} + +{\bfseries Education}\\[2pt] +\rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] +\textbf{B.S. in Applied Math} \hfill \textit{2016 -- 2020}\\ +\textit{Virginia Commonwealth University} +\vspace{4pt} + + +\end{paracol} + +\end{document}