Shadi Baqleh

Shadi Baqleh serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Deepgram, where he has significantly contributed to the development of the Deepgram AI Apps Catalog. This initiative is designed to assist developers in creating Voice AI products by providing essential tools and resources. Baqleh has been instrumental in addressing common queries related to lower-level WebSockets in the context of the Deepgram Streaming API, as observed in Deepgram Developer Communities. He advocates for the adoption of open source principles, emphasizing the importance of not duplicating efforts (DRY - Don’t Repeat Yourself) and leveraging existing open source projects to avoid reinventing the wheel. Baqleh educates on various aspects of open source software, including terminology for upstream, forked, and parallel projects, and discusses the challenges associated with project planning and implementation. He also provides guidance on when it might be necessary to start a new project independently, termed as going ‘Lone Wolf’. Additionally, Baqleh has created a reference implementation guide to aid developers in using lower-level WebSockets with the Deepgram Streaming API, promoting open source as a model for efficient reuse and time savings.