About XMAKYNA
XMAKYNA LTD is a UK technology company founded by Khaled Baqer and incorporated in England and Wales on 7 August 2026. It was established to build useful technology and the machinery needed to produce it to a higher engineering standard, with security, reliability and technical discipline built in from the outset.
The company's work spans two divisions. One develops applications and tools; the other focuses on high-assurance computing, security systems and infrastructure. They operate at different layers but share the same aim: to reduce avoidable failures, unnecessary complexity, fragile dependencies and misplaced trust.
Modern AI expands the capacity of a small founder-led engineering operation across implementation, investigation, testing and review. It makes a broader portfolio more practical, while allowing deeper investment in the tools and systems used to build, verify and maintain software.
Human direction remains primary. Architecture, requirements, system boundaries, review and final engineering decisions are not delegated to models. AI supports the work and provides another perspective for review; it does not determine what XMAKYNA builds or the standard it must meet.
Founder & CEO
Khaled Baqer holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge (Security Group). Before founding XMAKYNA, he spent over seven years at Entrust (formerly nCipher Security), most recently as Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, leading security architecture for a product line of hardware security modules. He continues to direct XMAKYNA's technical strategy, product development and engineering standards.
Further details about his background, research and writings are available on his personal website.
Company structure
Applications and tools for media and technical workflows. This division spans user-facing products and development tooling. The applications share the same engineering machinery and discipline. Mistakes, fixes and lessons from one product become institutional memory for the rest, improving the system used to build all of them.
High-assurance computing, security systems and infrastructure developed for XMAKYNA’s own use first. Selected capabilities may later have broader value, while others may remain proprietary.
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