Richard Frovarp
Principal Software Engineer at North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Frovarp is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of focused experience in identity and access management, software architecture, and cybersecurity, currently leading Enterprise Application Development at North Dakota State University. He owns NDSU’s IAM infrastructure and has driven major migrations—from a custom solution to midPoint and Grouper—and implemented campus-wide MFA and REFEDS-aligned identity services supporting thousands of self-service groups and millions of memberships. Richard pairs hands-on engineering (Java, Groovy, Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kong, MariaDB) with operational ownership, having modernized CI/CD, moved critical systems off Oracle, and hardened SSO and Shibboleth IdP deployments to meet federal and federation standards. He is active in the IAM community through REFEDS and InCommon, practices responsible vulnerability disclosure, and has a track record of replacing legacy tooling with more maintainable frameworks. Based in Fargo, ND, he combines deep institutional knowledge of higher education systems with open-source stewardship and practical security leadership.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at North Dakota State University
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Github Skills (45)
single-sign-on10
identity10
authentication10
cas10
fido10
java10
identity-provider10
aws10
authorization10
spring-boot10
jwt10
spring-cloud10
ldap-authentication10
sso-authentication10
saml9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NDSU-Information-Technology/international-capstone-exchange
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 releases, 4 PRs, 104 pushes in 2 years 11 months
NDSU-Information-Technology/tapestry5-cayenne
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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