About

Lukman Nuriakhmetov

Founder & CEO · 16 years engineering · 8 years leadership · 6 countries · 7 industries

The origin

"I was the copy-paste."

Three years of paying the copy-paste tax — at five companies, leading five teams — codified into infrastructure.

Lukman has been a daily user of Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, and Copilot since 2023. Across cross-border payments at a major financial institution, AI-native infrastructure at Echo Analytics, cloud platforms at Go2Cloud, conversational AI at Zeals, and engineering management at Sberbank, the same gap kept appearing: the planner and the executor were two different tools, and the operator was the bridge.

Codencer is the bridge made code.

The three products

Codencer is the company. Approva and Rhodd are independent products that establish the pattern: Lukman ships AI-native infrastructure as a discipline, not as a one-off.

  • Codencercodencer.dev Orchestration bridge between AI planners and AI executors. (Apache 2.0)
  • Approvaapprova.xyz Secure approval infrastructure for AI agents.
  • Rhoddrhodd.dev AI-based, spec-first deterministic system compiler.
The CV
CurrentlyHead of Engineering, cross-border payments at a major financial institution. 55-person delivery org, self-hosted LLMs with governance guardrails
PriorEcho Analytics (Paris) — Head of Engineering. Go2Cloud (Hannover) — VP of Engineering. Zeals (Tokyo) — Head of Frontend, Engineering Manager. Sberbank (Moscow) — Engineering Manager
Contact

Located: Nice, France · Luxembourg.

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