George Mitenkov is an accomplished software engineer and research scientist currently employed at Aptos Labs since June 2022. Prior experience includes participation in the Google Summer of Code program with LLVM Foundation, where Mitenkov worked on critical improvements to LLVM IR and MLIR frameworks. Additional roles include research engineer intern at Huawei, focusing on algorithm development for big data, and previous internships at Macquarie Group and Sberbank, where software solutions were developed in C++ and Java, respectively. Mitenkov holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from ETH Zürich and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London.