\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 Applied Cryptography \& Security 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{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] \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{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.} \end{itemize} \vspace{6pt} {\bfseries Projects}\\[2pt] \rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt}\\[4pt] \textbf{Core Cryptography Library} \hfill \textit{2022 -- Present} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \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.} \end{itemize} \vspace{4pt} \textbf{Motr Cryptographic Enclave} \hfill \textit{2022 -- 2023} \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep, topsep=2pt] \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.} \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}