About Me

Ddumba Abdallah Kato - Platform & AI Systems Engineer

Hi! I'm Ddumba Abdallah Kato, an AI Platform Engineer focused on production AI and infrastructure. I build the "engines" that allow AI to survive in production — while much of the industry focuses on prompt engineering, I focus on the "Day 2" reality of why inference cost runs higher than projected, why RAG pipeline latency lags, and how to scale a Kubernetes cluster to handle tens of thousands of concurrent agentic requests.

I sit at the intersection of platform reliability and AI system design. My goal is to transform "experimental AI" into enterprise-grade infrastructure that is resilient, observable, and profitable — bridging the gap between model development and production-grade deployment so AI platforms are scalable and cost-efficient from the ground up.

I typically work with engineering teams facing AI systems that work in dev but fail to scale under production loads, high inference costs without a clear optimization strategy, latency and observability gaps in complex RAG pipelines, and infrastructure bottlenecks when deploying GPU-intensive workloads.

Quick Facts

  • Based in Kampala, Uganda (Remote)
  • Senior Platform Engineer (AI Systems) at SymphonyAI
  • Director Solutions Architecture at Kyakabi Group
  • BEng Electrical & Electronics Engineering (2.1) - Queen Mary University of London

Achievements

AI Infrastructure

Architecting auto-scaling clusters for GPU-intensive workloads

7+ Years Experience

Platform engineering, AI systems, and cloud infrastructure

BEng Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Queen Mary University of London

Areas of Interest

AI Infrastructure
Inference Efficiency
High-Fidelity RAG
Automated Governance
Platform Engineering
Kubernetes & AWS