George Mitenkov
Staff Software Engineer at Aptos Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Mitenkov is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with seven years of experience building high-performance blockchain and compiler systems. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zürich and has a track record at Aptos Labs of architecting and optimizing the Move VM—leading a 6-person workstream to achieve a 10× speedup for on-chain trading and designing a next-generation VM for complex smart contracts. His contributions to Aptos Core include low-level ChangeSet and partial-update mechanisms, and he’s an active open-source contributor to widely used projects such as Aptos and LLVM where he prototyped new IR types and conversion tooling. Comfortable across systems, compilers and distributed consistency primitives, he shipped production-ready conflict-free counters and parallel execution features used on mainnet. Notably, his background includes competitive research internships and practical experience implementing NP-hard graph algorithms and high-frequency trading services, revealing a strong blend of theoretical depth and production engineering.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College LondonMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at ETH Zürich
English, French, German, Russian
Github Skills (6)
move10
rust10
blockchain10
computer-engineering9
transactional9
transaction9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aptos-labs/aptos-core
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1892 reviews, 63 commits, 468 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the development of core blockchain logic within the Aptos Core repository. Their work involved implementing a new `WriteOp::Delta` mechanism for partial updates, specifically for 128-bit unsigned integers, and integrating it into the virtual machine's transaction output. The changes also include refactoring to enhance the efficiency of the transaction output and the underlying ChangeSet structure. This resulted in several code modifications.
blockchain-platformblockchainuser-experienceblockchain-networksmart-contracts
georgemitenkov/GSoC-2020
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes in 7 days
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