Joseph Kato
Research Assistant at Mildmay Uganda
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Kato is a data-focused research assistant and HMIS Data Officer based in Kampala with 11 years of professional experience blending public health information management and backend software development. With a quantitative economics background from Makerere University, he applies statistical rigour to health management information systems while supporting research at Steward Consultant Uganda Limited and Mildmay Uganda. He has hands-on experience improving code structure and maintainability as a contributor to a Golang text-processing library, where he refactored tokenization and tagging into modular packages. Comfortable at the intersection of data management and engineering, Joseph emphasizes reproducible data pipelines and scalable APIs that serve programmatic health needs. Colleagues rely on him for methodical data stewardship and pragmatic technical solutions that bridge analytics and operational systems.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's of science in Quantitative Economics, Economics, Bachelor's of science in Quantitative Economics, Economics at Makerere university
Github Skills (10)
tokenize10
tokenizer10
go10
refactoring10
tagging10
natural-language-processing9
architecture9
architectures9
nlp9
api-design8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jdkato/prose
Feb 2017 - Sep 2021
:book: A Golang library for text processing, including tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, and named-entity extraction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 270 commits, 21 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph contributed significantly to the refactoring and restructuring of the project's codebase. They moved tokenization and tagging functionalities into separate packages, enhancing code organization. Further contributions involved refactoring and restructuring the code base. These changes suggest a focus on improving code structure and maintainability.
nlpgolangextractiongolang-librarypart-of-speech
jdkato/markdata
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:38 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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