Shakeel Hussein is the founder and CEO of Ridges AI, an artificial intelligence project on the Bittensor network, and is known for his previous engineering work at Supabase and on the Twitter/X transition team. ^{[1] [2]}

Early Life

Based in Toronto, Canada, Hussein demonstrated an accelerated academic path by graduating from high school at the age of 15. His initial career ambition was in healthcare, leading him to pursue a degree in dentistry before making a significant shift into the technology sector. ^[1]

Education

Hussein's post-secondary education began at James Cook University, where he was enrolled in the dentistry program from February 2020 to July 2020. During the global COVID-19 pandemic, he decided to leave dental school and began to teach himself programming. This period of self-study formed the foundation of his technical skills. He later attended the University of Toronto from September 2022 to April 2023, where he studied Computer Science and Physics to further formalize his education in the field. ^[1]

Career

Hussein began his professional career in software engineering at the age of 16, working full-time after becoming a self-taught programmer. One of his notable early positions was with Supabase, an open-source backend-as-a-service platform. He joined the company during its seed funding stage and remained a contributor as it progressed through its $30 million Series A round. At 19, Hussein worked as a member of the engineering team managing the transition of Twitter to its new branding as X. His professional experience also includes work as a high-frequency trader (HFT), an area he listed as part of his background. In 2025, Hussein founded Ridges AI, where he serves as CEO, focusing on the development of autonomous AI agents for software engineering. ^{[1] [3] [2]}

Ventures and Major Projects

Hidden Harvest Ventures

Hussein is the founder and operator of Hidden Harvest Ventures, a small firm that serves as his personal business entity for various projects and investments. ^[1]

Ridges AI

As CEO, Hussein leads Ridges AI, a project operating on the Bittensor network as Subnet 62. The platform's primary objective is to develop a network of autonomous AI agents capable of handling complex software engineering problems from end to end. The project's stated goal is to significantly augment the productivity of human developers or, in some cases, to replace their functions entirely. ^[2]

To accelerate innovation, Ridges AI open-sourced its agents, creating a competitive environment where any developer can copy, modify, and improve upon the core technology. This strategy encourages rapid, decentralized development, with the most effective agents being adopted by the network. The project's vision, as articulated by Hussein, involves the potential to "fire your entire engineering team and replace them with agents," underscoring its ambition to achieve full automation in the software development lifecycle. ^{[2] [4]}

In August 2025, the venture capital firm DSV Fund announced a $300,000 total investment in Ridges AI, comprising a $200,000 over-the-counter allocation and $100,000 in on-market buying. Regarding the investment, DSV Fund CIO Siam Kidd stated, “It’s either going to 10-100X the efficiency and capability of human coders and/or completely replace them. We’ve been buying Ridges for a while now as this is one of the most practical use cases we’ve seen on Bittensor.” ^[2]

Other Projects

Throughout his career, Hussein has developed and contributed to several open-source and private software projects.

• Kinship Canada: Hussein created a comprehensive digital infrastructure for the charity Kinship Canada. The project included a public-facing website and internal systems designed to be compliant with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations. Key features included a custom billing system, a dashboard for donors, and a system for the automated generation of tax receipts. The technology stack for this project was based on Typescript.
• Atlas Dashboard: Under the hobblecapital GitHub organization, Hussein developed the Atlas Dashboard, a specialized research platform for traders in the biotech sector. The dashboard was built with Javascript and designed to help users track news, monitor real-time price data, and create custom alerts for critical events like FDA drug approvals.
• Bitcoin RPC API: He built a Python-based API that interfaces with a Bitcoin node. The software was designed to enable the creation of a hosted wallet service, providing programmatic functionality for users to create new wallets and execute transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain.
• ScienceIO NodeJS SDK: Hussein developed a Software Development Kit (SDK) using Typescript and Node.js for the ScienceIO service. The SDK serves as a wrapper to help developers integrate ScienceIO's natural language processing capabilities, which extract structured medical concepts from unstructured text, into their applications.
• Delivr Mail: He created Delivr Mail, an open-source, API-driven email sending service intended as a self-hostable alternative to commercial platforms like Sendgrid. The project was built with Python and the Postfix mail transfer agent.

These projects demonstrate Hussein's work across charitable systems, financial technology, blockchain infrastructure, and developer tools. ^[1]

Stated Interests

According to his personal website, Hussein has expressed deep interest in several interdisciplinary fields and invites discussion on them. These topics include longevity research and methods for extending the human lifespan; the relationship between cryptocurrency, anarchy, and the potential decline of centrally banked economies; genetic research into "taboo gene concepts" such as temperament and "bloodline outcomes"; and neurology, particularly the study of methods for "avoiding intelligence crystallization" and maintaining cognitive plasticity. ^[1]