Vladimir Mencl
Lead Software Engineer at REANNZ Ltd.
Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolVladimir Mencl is a Lead Software Engineer based in Canterbury, New Zealand, with 17 years of experience blending deep academic rigour—he holds an Mgr. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Charles University—with hands-on engineering leadership at REANNZ. He focuses on building reliable backend systems and improving stability in critical libraries, exemplified by targeted bug fixes and metadata-handling enhancements to the widely used Python SAML2 implementation pysaml2. Known for methodical problem solving, he strengthens exception handling, serialization, and reload mechanisms to make integrations more robust in production. Vladimir combines research-level understanding with practical delivery, mentoring teams while still contributing code to open-source projects that underpin identity and federation tooling.
17 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Charles University, Prague
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Github Skills (7)
metadata10
python10
saml10
debug9
error-handling9
debugging9
json7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
IdentityPython/pysaml2
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Python implementation of SAML2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the `pysaml2` library. Their contributions addressed issues related to metadata handling, including fixing JSON serialization problems, correcting exception handling, and adding the ability to reload metadata. Additionally, they modified the `assertion` module to safeguard against potential errors. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the stability and functionality of the SAML2 implementation.
pythonidppython-implementationsaml2identity-provider
REANNZ/nzcsed-metadata
Dec 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:14 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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