
Radovan Semančík
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
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Inžinier (Ing., master) degree from Slovak University of Technology
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Philosophiae Doctor (PhD.) degree from Slovak University of Technology
Publications and Talks (selection)
- Practical Identity Management with MidPoint (book)
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since 2016, continuously updated
- Regulatory Compliance with MidPoint
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2025, MidPoint Community Meetup
- Navigating the Access Control Maze
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2023, KuppingerCole & Evolveum Webinar
- Complexities of Identity Provenance Metadata
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2021, Open Identity Summit 2021 conference contribution
- Identity Metadata In A Nutshell
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2020, supporting document for midPrivacy initiative.
- Identity Governance and Data Protection with midPoint
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Presentation at FOSDEM 2018, Brussels (with Katarina Valaliková)
- Complete Open Source IAM Solution
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Presentation at LDAPcon 2015, Edinburgh (with Katarina Valaliková)
- Revised World Wide Web Architecture
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2008, dissertation
- Basic Properties of the Persona Model
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2007, Computing and Informatics, Vol. 26, 2007, pp. 105-121.
- Choosing the Best Identity Management Technology for your Business
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InfoSeCon 2006 Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Project Participation (selection)
- MidPoint
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since 2011, software architect and project co-founder
- MidPoint/ConnId LDAP Connector
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since 2015, contributor and project co-founder
- ConnId
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since 2013, contributor
- Apache Directory API
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2015-2023, committer and project management committee (PMC) member (retired)
- slapdconf (project discontinued)
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2014-2025, developer and maintainer
- OpenIDM version 1 (project discontinued)
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2010-2011, developer and architect
- OpenICF (project discontinued)
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2011-2014, contributor