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Praneeth Gunasekaran

Senior Mobile Software Engineer specializing in secure React Native and Bitcoin wallets

Commonwealth Cyber InitiativeVirginia TechBlacksburg, VA6 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks On-Site

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Built and evolved the backend-adjacent platform for a self-custody Bitcoin wallet used by 2000+ users, emphasizing security-first architecture that avoids custodial risk by keeping private key operations client-side. Demonstrates strong API reliability and security depth (FastAPI contract-first design, idempotency, state-machine modeling, JWT/device-aware auth) and has reduced production failures by hardening signing flows against poor connectivity.

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Key Strengths

  • Designed security-first backend-adjacent architecture for a self-custody Bitcoin wallet (2000+ users)
  • Strong client/server boundary design to avoid custodial risk (private key ops kept client-side)
  • API design for reliability and frontend enablement (contract-first, Pydantic/OpenAPI, versioning, predictable errors)
  • Reliability engineering: idempotent writes, strict timeouts, caching, background jobs, health checks, graceful shutdown, load testing
  • Defense-in-depth security implementation (JWT short-lived tokens, device-aware auth, RBAC/scopes, certificate pinning, rate limiting)
  • Identified and mitigated hard-to-reproduce failure modes via explicit state machines and retry-safe/idempotent signing flows

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Experience

Bitcoin Layer 2 Security ResearcherCommonwealth Cyber Initiative · Aug 2024 – Present
Senior Software Engineer / Senior Mobile DeveloperBithyve · Mar 2022 – Jul 2024
Software Engineer / Mobile DeveloperHiver (Grexit) · Jan 2020 – Mar 2022

Education

Virginia Techmaster, Computer Science (2026)
Visvesvaraya Technological Universitybachelor, Computer Science (2020)

Awards

  • $20,000 grant/bounty from Coinkite (for cktap protocol library contributions)

Languages

English

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Praneeth GunasekaranSenior Mobile Software Engineer specializing in secure React Native and Bitcoin wallets