Charan Nomula

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Work Experience

Senior Smart Contract Engineer Jan 2026 - Present

Contributing to Spark, a Sky-backed onchain capital allocator with ~$7B+ TVL across SparkLend, the Spark Liquidity Layer, and Spark Savings - SparkLend alone is one of the top 3 largest lending protocols in DeFi by TVL
Part of the team building diamond-pau, the next-generation onchain allocator that replaces the original Spark Liquidity Layer allocator and is now live in production on Ethereum mainnet and Arbitrum, routing capital across Aave, Curve, Uniswap, Maple, Pendle, Morpho, and more
Review governance spells in spark-spells, the repo that executes Spark's onchain governance proposals, which ship roughly every two weeks
Contribute to Spark's internal knowledge base, a central repository of config and invariant tests covering all of Spark's onchain protocols
Help build auxiliary contracts around Spark Vaults, including Savings Intents and Boosted Vaults
Contribute to SparkLend, Spark's core lending market, including work on a rounding bug fix and an accompanying refactor
Helped refactor the merkle tree generation pipeline behind Spark's rewards and points airdrop distributions
Write deployment and verification scripts for new contract rollouts, including diamond-pau, Savings Intents, and vaults
Write unit, integration, fork, fuzz, and invariant tests across Spark's Solidity codebases

Lead Blockchain Engineer Apr 2025 - Jan 2026

Led the SupraNova technical team of up to 8 engineers as Technical Lead, overseeing architecture and implementation
Architected the SupraNova bridge protocol, including bidirectional EVM to Supra bridge design with smart contracts, off-chain relayers, and monitoring services
Designed and implemented a cross-chain dynamic fee calculation model with fuzz testing
Led the team to successfully deploy Ethereum to Supra trustless bridge on mainnet at https://supranova.ai/
Leading development of BSC to Supra, Sonic to Supra, and Supra to EVM bridges
Conducted security reviews and PR reviews of protocol design and implementations across Solidity, Rust, and Move codebases
Designed and executed comprehensive testing including unit, invariant, fuzz, and E2E tests for bridge components
Contributed to extending Supra's Move layer with native functions to support bridge operations
Updated internal Ethereum full nodes and bridge codebase for compatibility with Fusaka hard fork
Established multisig admin accounts and secure private key management for off-chain infrastructure

Senior Blockchain Engineer August 2024 - February 2025

Researched cross-chain interoperability solutions with deep analysis of Wormhole, deBridge, LayerZero, Hyperbridge, Hyperlane, Axelar, Telepathy, ZK Bridge, Circle CCTP, and Dexlyn
Architected Supra's interoperability solution based on research findings
Implemented novel algorithms in Solidity including sliding window and order-preserving mechanisms in non-interactive setups
Built trustless bridge smart contracts in Solidity and off-chain components including relayers and light clients in Rust
Conducted security reviews of bridge implementations

Blockchain Engineer Feb 2024 - July 2024

Prototyped Hyperloop, a non-interactive multisig cross-chain bridge for research publication
Studied Ethereum consensus specifications, sync-committee protocol, security models of trustless bridges, beacon chain architecture, full nodes, and light clients with focus on Helios
Updated internal Ethereum full nodes and bridge codebase for compatibility with Electra hard fork

Cyber Security Intern Apr 2023 – Sep 2023

Applied OSINT techniques to identify potential privacy threats for individuals and organizations
Set up OSINT investigation toolboxes on Linux for security research
Practiced penetration testing through TryHackMe platform

CTF Player Aug 2022 – Feb 2024

Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies - Nuzvid, AP, India 2020 – 2024

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science CGPA: 9.6/10

Blockchain: EVM, Aptos, Supra, Bridges, Consensus, DeFi, Auditing, ZK

Programming: Rust, Solidity, Huff, Move, Circom, Python, Bash, Assembly

Cryptography: Cryptanalysis, Symmetric & Asymmetric Cryptosystems, Hashing & Signatures

Tools & Packages: Forge, Hardhat, Alloy.rs, Docker, RabbitMQ, Git & Github

Pentest Tools: Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, John, Wireshark, Virtualbox, Aircrack-ng, etc.

Web2 Technologies: ReactJS, Flask, SQL, Understanding MERN Stack & PHP

Python, Flask, RSA, AES, ECC Feb – Mar 2023

Implemented a published research paper titled "A Novel Cryptography Technique for Video Stream" as an academic project using multi-key hybrid cryptography for video communication security
Built video encryption and decryption software using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for pseudo-random key generation

Contributed to Hyperloop, a non-interactive multisig bridge research paper
Contributed to open-source Interoperability-Protocol-Security-Checklist
Ranked in top 10 in Web3 CTFs including Statemind (top 3), MetaRedCTF, TCP1PCTF, and HackedlabsCTF, solving all Web3 challenges
Completed Secureum bootcamp and Ethereum development bootcamp by Alchemy
Completed a 180 days of hacking streak, solved 130+ penetration testing labs and ranked in Top 1% on TryHackMe leaderboard
Completed 100+ labs on x86 assembly, HTTP requests, and program misuse at PWN.College