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Meet the Core Architects

The steering team behind the Open Ingestion Standard (OIS) and OpenCrawling, building high-throughput, secure connectors bridging content to AI vector store architectures.

Piergiorgio Lucidi

Piergiorgio Lucidi

Founder & Lead Architect

Piergiorgio is an Enterprise Integration Architect, Open Source advocate, and speaker. Having built large-scale content management and security engines for major European institutions, he founded OpenCrawling to solve the complex challenge of mapping enterprise security access controls (ACLs) to AI vector models.

Enterprise Security & ACL Mapping 95%
Java 25 & Spring Boot Core 90%
Enterprise Integration Patterns 85%
  • ⚡ OIS Core Specification schema design & stabilization.
  • ⚡ Java 25 Virtual Threads execution pool coordinator.
  • ⚡ Principal security mapper & Authority Translation service interfaces.
Michael Cizmar

Michael Cizmar

Lead Architect

Michael is a senior systems architect specializing in high-volume, event-driven pipelines, big data infrastructures, and information retrieval architectures. Over his career, he has optimized enterprise search capabilities for corporations and spearheaded decentralized Kafka-based microservice clustering.

Event-Driven Pipelines (Kafka, Redis) 95%
Information Retrieval & Search Indexes 90%
Decoupled AI Vector Store Services 85%
  • ⚡ Decoupled Kafka consumer groups & parallel chunk vectorization.
  • ⚡ Vector Store Output writers (PgVector, Qdrant, Elasticsearch).
  • ⚡ Model Context Protocol (MCP) server similarity retrieval core tools.
Luis Cabaceira

Luis Cabaceira

Core Contributor

Luis is a software engineer passionate about open-source, distributed systems, and AI-augmented search pipelines. He contributes to the OpenCrawling connectors, focusing on adding reliability and versatility to the platform.

Distributed Systems & Kafka 90%
Java & Spring Boot Microservices 88%
AI Vector Store Integrations 82%
  • ⚡ Repository connector extensibility & plugin architecture.

Shape the Ingestion Standard

OpenCrawling is built on open standards, collaborative transparency, and Zero-Trust integration principles. We welcome developers, technical writers, security analysts, and integration architects.

✓ Contribute to OIS (Open Ingestion Standard) Specification
✓ Implement custom Repository Connectors & DB Writers
✓ Enhance the Secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
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