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Co-Founder & CTO, Lockia Technologies
Kevin Fernandez is Co-Founder and CTO of Lockia Technologies, where he leads the architecture of the Cipher Protocol and Lockia's Sovereign UEM platform. His work focuses on hardware-anchored device security built on public AOSP APIs and Lockia-operated MDM infrastructure — designed to give enterprises endpoint management capability without third-party SaaS in the data path. He is co-inventor on USPTO provisional patent 63/940,826, "Bypass-Resistant Device Locking."
Articles
Public discussion of Android Enterprise governance often conflates three separate enforcement layers. They are not the same thing — and the conflation has real consequences for any organization considering custom DPC deployment. From Lockia CTO Kevin Fernandez, with citations to Jason Bayton's public writing on the topic.
Kevin Fernandez
Jun 4, 2026 · 11 min
Side-by-side technical comparison of building UEM on public AOSP DevicePolicyManager APIs versus Google's Android Management API. Architecture, capabilities, costs, and failure modes for each approach. From Lockia CTO Kevin Fernandez.
Kevin Fernandez
May 28, 2026 · 10 min
Default-rate math, bypass economics, and why TEE-anchored device control changes the unit economics of installment phone financing. From Lockia CTO Kevin Fernandez.
Kevin Fernandez
May 21, 2026 · 7 min
Engineering reference for Lockia's Sovereign UEM architecture: Cipher DPC on public AOSP APIs, Lockia-operated Cipher MDM via Apple Business Manager, hardware-anchored Cipher Protocol, and the Guardian AI behavioral detection layer. Bylined by Lockia CTO Kevin Fernandez.
Kevin Fernandez
May 14, 2026 · 14 min