Radovan Semančík

Software Architect

Short Bio (Commercial)

Radovan Semančík is a Co-Founder and Software Architect at Evolveum, the vendor of the leading open source IGA platform midPoint. Radovan was pioneering early identity management deployments in Europe in the 2000s. Since then, he has been combining identity governance and administration (IGA) expertise with more than 30 years of software development and architecture experience, channelling the knowledge into midPoint’s development. Radovan holds a Master’s and PhD degree in Software Engineering from the Slovak Technical University. His main areas of interest are digital identity and software architecture.

Short Bio (Academic/Activist)

He graduated from the Slovak Technical University with a master degree in Software Engineering and PhD degree. He works as a software architect at Evolveum, and he is also one of the founders of the company. His main areas of interest are digital identity and software architecture. He was involved in deployment of identity management solutions since early 2000s. He is an open-source project contributor and participates in several software development projects. He dedicates most of his time to guide the midPoint project - the most comprehensive open source identity governance and administration (IGA) platform currently available. He is a retired Apache Foundation committer and project management committee member.

Education

Publications and Talks (selection)

Practical Identity Management with MidPoint (book)

since 2016, continuously updated

Regulatory Compliance with MidPoint

2025, MidPoint Community Meetup

Navigating the Access Control Maze

2023, KuppingerCole & Evolveum Webinar

Complexities of Identity Provenance Metadata

2021, Open Identity Summit 2021 conference contribution

Identity Metadata In A Nutshell

2020, supporting document for midPrivacy initiative.

Identity Governance and Data Protection with midPoint

Presentation at FOSDEM 2018, Brussels (with Katarina Valaliková)

Complete Open Source IAM Solution

Presentation at LDAPcon 2015, Edinburgh (with Katarina Valaliková)

Revised World Wide Web Architecture

2008, dissertation

Basic Properties of the Persona Model

2007, Computing and Informatics, Vol. 26, 2007, pp. 105-121.

Choosing the Best Identity Management Technology for your Business

InfoSeCon 2006 Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Project Participation (selection)

MidPoint

since 2011, software architect and project co-founder

MidPoint/ConnId LDAP Connector

since 2015, contributor and project co-founder

ConnId

since 2013, contributor

Apache Directory API

2015-2023, committer and project management committee (PMC) member (retired)

slapdconf (project discontinued)

2014-2025, developer and maintainer

OpenIDM version 1 (project discontinued)

2010-2011, developer and architect

OpenICF (project discontinued)

2011-2014, contributor

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