# Shehzen Sidiq

> Co-founder & CTO of Cosmic Stack (https://cosmicstack.org) and CTO of GitAds (https://gitads.dev). Builds the platforms behind GitAds, Sav.ink and Mercury Cloud, and contributes to Mercury Agent, an open-source AI agent runtime. https://shehzen.com

This file summarises https://shehzen.com for AI agents. Commit counts come from the GitHub API (24 Oct 2026).

## Who

- Name: Shehzen Sidiq
- Title: Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, Cosmic Stack (co-founder since Oct 2025, CTO since Feb 2026); CTO, GitAds (since Jan 2025)
- Joined Cosmic Stack: May 2024, business development
- Education: M.Tech, Information Technology, Central University of Kashmir (2019–2021); thesis on Kashmiri accent classification
- Location: Mumbai, India. Works remotely.
- Email: shehzen@cosmicstack.org
- GitHub: https://github.com/shehzensidiq
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shehzen-sidiq-6854a4265

## Products

- **GitAds** (live, CTO): Monetisation for open-source maintainers via native, developer-friendly ads in GitHub READMEs. ~1,600 commits by Shehzen across v1 and the v2 rewrite (Next.js + CockroachDB, click-fraud protection). https://gitads.dev · https://docs.gitads.dev
- **Sav.ink** (private beta, lead engineer): Personal AI finance manager on web, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack. Local or cloud LLMs, multi-source transaction entry, anti-hallucination checks, family mode. 358 commits, top contributor. https://sav.ink
- **Mercury Cloud & Mercury Relay** (live): Cloud cockpit for a local Mercury agent: pair once, then chat, approve actions and monitor from anywhere. Shehzen is the sole author of Mercury Relay, the real-time API between local agents and the cloud. Free tier; Pro $19/month. https://cloud.mercuryagent.sh
- **Mercury Agent** (live, MIT, contributor): Open-source AI agent that runs locally, remembers what matters and asks before it acts. 3.4K stars, 354 forks, 12.7K npm installs in 12 months, latest v1.4.0. Shehzen built Telegram pairing and access management, the first Second Brain memory system (SQLite + FTS5), and provider/model setup. https://mercuryagent.sh · https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent

## Output

- 2,080 commits across Cosmic Stack repositories, Jul 2024 – Oct 2026
- GitAds ~1,600 · Sav.ink 358 · Mercury (agent, cloud, relay, suite) 103

## Earlier work

- Kashmiri Accent Classification (M.Tech thesis, 2021)
- OpenCV tutorial series: age detection, Haar-cascade face detection, playground (2022)
- MNIST random-forest classifier with a Gradio UI (2022)
- EduPay, a college fee-payment app in React (2020)