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description: Optimize LaTeX resume wording for a target role, enforcing exactly one full page
argument-hint: <path-to-role-description.txt | pasted JD text>
allowed-tools: Read, Edit, Write, Bash(pdflatex:*), Bash(tectonic:*), Bash(latexmk:*), Bash(pdfinfo:*), Bash(pdftotext:*), Grep, Glob
---
# Resume Optimizer
<!--toc:start-->
- [Resume Optimizer](#resume-optimizer)
- [Inputs](#inputs)
- [Template selection & facelift](#template-selection-facelift)
- [Hard constraints](#hard-constraints)
- [Workflow](#workflow)
- [1. Analyze the role description](#1-analyze-the-role-description)
- [2. Score and select content](#2-score-and-select-content)
- [3. Refactor wording](#3-refactor-wording)
- [4. Compile and verify page fit (loop)](#4-compile-and-verify-page-fit-loop)
- [5. Report](#5-report)
- [Notes](#notes)
<!--toc:end-->
Tailor the best-matching resume variant under `src/` to a target role by refactoring **wording only** — the set of
projects, experiences, employers, dates, and titles is FIXED and must never change.
## Inputs
- **Role description:** $ARGUMENTS (a file path or pasted text; if a path, Read it)
- **Source of truth:** the YAML files under `docs/` — the canonical inventory:
- `docs/about/` — summary/headline, contact, positioning
- `docs/experience/` — roles, employers, dates, verified accomplishment bullets
- `docs/projects/` — project inventory with stack and outcomes
- `docs/skills/` — skill taxonomy
Read ALL files in these directories before selecting content. Every claim in the
output must be traceable to an entry in one of them. If any directory is missing
or empty, extract the current content of the react-native template (the most
complete variant) into the right files and ask me to verify before proceeding.
- **Templates:** the role-variant resumes under `src/`:
- cryptography variant
- founding engineer variant
- protocol variant
- react native variant ← **gold standard** for structure, density, bullet
style, and formatting. Treat it as the style reference for all others.
## Template selection & facelift
1. Glob `src/*.tex` and score the input JD against each base variant (domain
keywords, stack overlap, seniority framing). Pick the closest match as the
base.
2. **Copy the base to a new application file** — never edit the four base
variants in place: `src/PradNukala_<Role>_<Company>.tex` (CamelCase fields,
underscores between them, e.g. `PradNukala_SeniorBackendEngineer_EllipsisLabs.tex`).
All content work happens in this copy; the glob Makefile emits the
deliverable `dist/PradNukala_<Role>_<Company>.pdf` with no Makefile edit.
3. If the selected base is NOT the react-native one, run a **facelift pass
before content work**: diff its structure against the react-native template
and bring it to parity — section ordering conventions, bullet formatting,
spacing macros, header/contact block, and overall density. Structure from
react-native; content from the selected variant's domain + `docs/`.
4. If the JD is a hybrid (e.g., protocol + founding engineer), pick the closer
base and pull the other domain's content via `docs/`, not by copy-pasting
stale `.tex` bullets across variants.
5. Never edit any base variant as collateral damage — react-native included;
bases only change when intentionally updating the base itself.
## Hard constraints
1. **No fabrication.** Never invent metrics, technologies, scope, or outcomes not
present in the `docs/` YAML files. Rewording is allowed; new claims are not.
2. **Fixed inventory.** Do not add or remove jobs/projects. You MAY reorder bullets
within a section and swap which projects are shown vs. cut, choosing the subset
most relevant to the role — but only from the `docs/` inventory.
3. **Exactly one page.** Not 0.9 pages with whitespace at the bottom, not 1.05
pages. Full page, visually dense but readable.
4. **ATS-safe.** No text in images, no tables for core content, standard section
headers (Experience, Projects, Skills, Education).
## Workflow
### 1. Analyze the role description
- Extract: required skills, preferred skills, seniority signals, domain keywords,
and repeated phrases (repetition = what they actually screen for).
- Build a keyword priority list: `must-hit` / `should-hit` / `nice-to-hit`.
### 2. Score and select content
- Score every experience bullet in `docs/experience/` and every project in
`docs/projects/` against the keyword list (relevance × recency × impact).
- Select the highest-scoring subset that plausibly fills one page. Note what was
cut and why — report this at the end.
### 3. Refactor wording
For each selected bullet:
- Lead with a strong verb, embed the highest-priority keyword naturally, end with
a concrete outcome or metric from the yaml.
- Mirror the JD's exact terminology where truthful (if they say "distributed
systems" and the yaml says "microservices at scale," use their phrasing).
- 12 lines per bullet in the compiled PDF. Never let a bullet wrap to a lonely
13 word second line (an "orphan") — tighten wording instead.
- Skills section: reorder so must-hit keywords appear first; drop irrelevant ones.
### 4. Compile and verify page fit (loop)
```bash
# <app> = PradNukala_<Role>_<Company>, the new application file under src/
make <app> && pdfinfo dist/<app>.pdf | grep Pages
```
- **> 1 page:** tighten in this order — (a) reword verbose bullets, (b) cut the
lowest-scoring bullet, (c) reduce `\itemsep`/section spacing, (d) drop the
lowest-scoring project. Recompile after each change.
- **< 1 full page** (check visually via `pdftotext` density or rendered output):
expand in this order — (a) restore a cut high-scoring bullet, (b) add a relevant
bullet from the yaml not currently used, (c) modestly increase spacing. Content
before whitespace, always.
- Repeat until exactly one full page. Cap at 6 compile iterations; if still
fighting, show me the tradeoff options instead of thrashing.
### 5. Report
Output a summary:
- Which template was selected and its JD match score vs. the other three
- Facelift diff summary (if a non-react-native variant was uplifted): what
structural changes were pulled from the gold standard
- Keyword coverage table: must-hit terms → where each landed (or "MISSING — not
supported by docs/, do not fake it")
- What was cut/reordered and why
- Before/after for the 3 most significantly rewritten bullets
- Final page-fit status and compile command used
## Notes
- Preserve any custom LaTeX macros in the template; edit content inside them.
- If the JD is for a materially different track than the yaml supports (e.g.,
pure ML role vs. infra background), say so up front rather than stretching.
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\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}
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\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{8pt}
\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]
TypeScript, Next.js, Python, C\#, Go, Full-Stack Development, SQL, Protobufs\\[5pt]
\textbf{Cloud \& Infra}\\[1pt]
Cloudflare Workers, AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions\\[5pt]
\textbf{Systems}\\[1pt]
System Architecture, Distributed Systems, API Design, CI/CD, Technical Leadership, Stakeholder Communication\\[5pt]
\textbf{AI \& Dev Tools}\\[1pt]
Cursor, AI-Assisted Development, Linux (Arch), Vim\\[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 take a peer-to-peer identity and asset-management platform 0-to-1 into production, owning architecture, implementation, and reliability end to end.}
\item \small{Directed a cross-functional team spanning the full stack: React Native front-ends, an event-driven Cosmos SDK Layer-1 ledger with asynchronous cross-chain (IBC) messaging, and Cloudflare Workers infrastructure.}
\item \small{Built and operated production infrastructure on Google Cloud --- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible --- managing multi-node network deployments.}
\item \small{Ranked 4th globally in GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022); onboarded 120+ first-time developers through hands-on workshops and SDK support.}
\end{itemize}
\vspace{4pt}
\textbf{Data Science Intern} \hfill \textit{May 2019 -- Aug 2019}\\
\textit{Unissant --- Herndon, VA}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Deployed a machine-learning fraud-detection model on AWS SageMaker (Python) and built a client-facing React app on serverless AWS Lambda to query it in real time.}
\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 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 orchestration layer on Cloudflare Workers (Durable Objects, KV, Service Bindings) managing persistent sessions and state synchronization.}
\item \small{Architected a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave executing MPC signing and UCAN token generation 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 a capability-based permissions system (UCAN + Decentralized Web Nodes) granting time-bound, delegatable access to encrypted IPFS vaults.}
\item \small{Integrated automated legal-compliance tooling into the blockchain CLI, generating cryptographic proofs and regulatory filings (Wyoming DAO LC).}
\end{itemize}
\vspace{4pt}
\textbf{Token Economics \& Payment Design} \hfill \textit{2022}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Architected the network token model with 6 PhD economists (Prysm Group): allocation, supply schedules, velocity, and staking-reward emissions.}
\item \small{Structured the token as the means of payment across protocol modules, translating economic models into Layer-1 state-machine logic.}
\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 shipping a cross-platform React Native messenger with end-to-end encryption over a customized Matrix protocol.}
\item \small{Replaced centralized auth with WebAuthn passkeys and DIDs, abstracting routing and key management behind a frictionless ``Web2-grade'' chat UX.}
\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}
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\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 Full-Stack Engineer --- React Native \& TypeScript}
\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]
TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Go, Dart, SQL\\[5pt]
\textbf{Mobile \& Web}\\[1pt]
React Native, React.js, Next.js, Flutter\\[5pt]
\textbf{Blockchain}\\[1pt]
Viem, Wagmi, Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, IPFS, libp2p, Matrix Protocol\\[5pt]
\textbf{Data \& Infrastructure}\\[1pt]
PostgreSQL, Cloudflare Workers, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Fastlane\\[5pt]
\textbf{AI \& Automation}\\[1pt]
ChatGPT\\[5pt]
\textbf{Methodology}\\[1pt]
Full-Stack Development, CI/CD, Test-Driven Development, System Architecture, API Design, Open Source, Technical Leadership\\[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 startup and secured \$4.7M to build a peer-to-peer identity and asset management system on DIDs, WebAuthn, and IPFS.}
\item \small{Led a cross-functional engineering team building a cross-platform React Native chat app for iOS and Android on the decentralized Matrix protocol.}
\item \small{Scaled cloud hosting and networking on Google Cloud, orchestrating server deployments with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.}
\item \small{Architected a custom Layer-1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, optimizing backend data serialization and network communication with Protobufs.}
\item \small{Drove open-source growth to the 4th-highest global GitHub contributions (Oct 2021--Oct 2022), mentoring 120+ first-time blockchain developers.}
\end{itemize}
\vspace{6pt}
{\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt]
\rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[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 building Beam, a cross-platform E2EE React Native messenger for iOS and Android.}
\item \small{Swapped email/phone login for WebAuthn passkey wallets and DIDs, partnering with product and design to ship a seamless Web2-grade chat UX.}
\item \small{Architected and operated a self-hosted Matrix homeserver, customizing the protocol for censorship-resistant, self-custodied messaging.}
\end{itemize}
\vspace{4pt}
\textbf{Client SDK \& Motr Enclave} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Architected ``Motr,'' a Go-to-WASM cryptographic enclave in Web Workers, running MPC signing and token generation with private keys never exposed.}
\item \small{Built an edge orchestration layer on Cloudflare Workers (Durable Objects, KV) managing cross-platform sessions, smart routing, and state synchronization.}
\item \small{Implemented account-isolated offline persistence with Dexie.js (IndexedDB), caching cryptographic state, delegated capabilities, and DWN records.}
\end{itemize}
\vspace{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 and CosmWasm smart contracts, supporting multi-chain token mappings and IBC operations.}
\end{itemize}
\vspace{4pt}
\textbf{Decentralized File-Sharing Platform} \hfill \textit{2020 -- 2021}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Built native iOS Share Extensions in Swift and Android Intent filters over a Go/libp2p networking core bound into Dart via Gomobile.}
\item \small{Designed a reactive, high-performance UI with GetX state management and Lottie/Rive animations for real-time peer-discovery and transfer feedback.}
\item \small{Built a local caching layer with Moor (SQLite) to store identity profiles, transfer history, and media metadata offline.}
\item \small{Automated CI/CD with Fastlane, Makefiles, and GitHub Actions to ship App Bundles and iOS Archives to the Play Store and App Store TestFlight.}
\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}\\[2pt]
\small{Published 3 apps in 3 years with over 1M total downloads.}
\vspace{4pt}
\end{paracol}
\end{document}
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\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}
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{\bfseries Skills}\\[2pt]
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\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]
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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}
\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]
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\textbf{B.S. in Applied Math} \hfill \textit{2017 -- 2020}\\
\textit{Virginia Commonwealth University}
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{\Huge \textbf{Prad Nukala}}\\[2pt]
{\large Staff Software Engineer --- Blockchain \& Payments Infrastructure}
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\small
{\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 (Golang), Java, TypeScript, SQL, Solidity, Protobufs\\[5pt]
\textbf{Blockchain \& Payments}\\[1pt]
Cosmos SDK, IBC, EVM, CosmWasm, API Design (REST/gRPC), WebAuthn, DIDs\\[5pt]
\textbf{Infrastructure}\\[1pt]
Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, CI/CD\\[5pt]
\textbf{Leadership \& Communication}\\[1pt]
Technical Presentations, Cross-functional Communication, Developer Relations, Fundraising\\[5pt]
\textbf{AI \& Automation}\\[1pt]
ChatGPT, AI-assisted Development Workflows\\[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}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Architected a custom Layer-1 blockchain in Go on the Cosmos SDK --- modular state machine with Protobuf/gRPC services and REST gateways --- and secured \$4.7M to build the platform.}
\item \small{Directed technical strategy for a cross-functional engineering team across protocol, cryptography, and client SDKs; onboarded 120+ first-time blockchain developers to public APIs during DevNet.}
\item \small{Built production infrastructure on Kubernetes and Google Cloud with Terraform --- multi-node testnets and GoReleaser multi-architecture CI/CD --- with test coverage gating continuous delivery.}
\end{itemize}
\vspace{4pt}
\textbf{Mobile App Developer} \hfill \textit{Aug 2020 -- May 2021}\\
\textit{Leidos --- Herndon, VA}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Shipped features for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mobile Passport app used by millions of travelers, meeting strict federal security, privacy, and accessibility standards.}
\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+ total downloads, owning product end-to-end from design through full-stack development.}
\end{itemize}
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{\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt]
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\textbf{Cross-Chain Value Transfer \& Tokenization} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Implemented full EVM compatibility alongside CosmWasm smart contracts, supporting multi-chain token mappings and cross-chain value transfer over IBC.}
\item \small{Engineered a ``Gasless Onboarding'' pipeline with custom Cosmos AnteHandlers validating WebAuthn passkeys at the mempool level --- an API surface hiding seed phrases and fees behind familiar Web2 flows.}
\end{itemize}
\vspace{4pt}
\textbf{Token Economics \& Payment Design} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Architected the network token model with 6 PhD economists (Prysm Group) --- allocation, supply schedules, velocity, and staking emissions --- benchmarked against Uniswap, Compound, and Algorand.}
\item \small{Structured the token as the means of payment across protocol modules and designed DPoS validator incentives aligning network security with cross-chain payments over IBC.}
\end{itemize}
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\textbf{Core Cryptography \& Key Management} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt]
\item \small{Implemented MPC and Distributed Key Generation protocols (Threshold ECDSA/Ed25519, FROST) in Go, removing single points of failure from transaction-signing infrastructure.}
\end{itemize}
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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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