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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 search architect with over two decades of experience designing enterprise-grade search systems, big data architectures, and high-performance AI/RAG solutions. He leads the core systems scaling and retrieval engine design for OpenCrawling, bridging structured enterprise data repositories with modern vector index stores.

Enterprise Search (Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene) 96%
AI/RAG Retrieval Architectures 94%
High-Throughput Vector Indexes 88%
  • ⚡ Designing secure similarity retrieval systems using Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool configurations.
  • ⚡ Optimizing high-throughput vector store writers (pgvector, Elasticsearch, Qdrant).
  • ⚡ Spearheading event-driven parallel indexing and decoupled vectorization pipelines.
Luis Cabaceira

Luis Cabaceira

Core Contributor & Lead Architect

Luis is a software engineer passionate about Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems, information logistics, and open-source integrations. He leads the development of repository connectors for OpenCrawling, focusing on unlocking legacy enterprise document assets securely for modern RAG pipelines.

Enterprise Content Management (Alfresco, SharePoint, CMIS) 95%
Repository Connector Development 92%
Metadata & ACL Permission Translation 88%
  • ⚡ Developing new repository connectors for legacy and modern ECM suites (Alfresco, SharePoint, FileNet).
  • ⚡ Standardizing CMIS metadata translation to the Open Ingestion Standard (OIS) schema.
  • ⚡ Streamlining the connector plugin SDK inside oc-core for third-party developers.

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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