About the firm
The engineering firm that covers
both halves of the stack.
Most infrastructure suppliers sell you equipment and install it. Most data specialists never leave the database. PROD·GATE does the physical plant and the data layer. From the fibre in the ground to the query on the screen. And our hardware markup stays lean.
- FreeFirst 5 minutes, every time
- FixedScope and price before we start
- LeanHardware markup, kept lean
- EvidenceTested, certified, handed over
“The environments we are called into are ordinary ones. A basement, a comms room, a rack in a back office. The work is in making them behave.”
What we are brought in for
Problems that quietly cost money every day
These are the twelve scenarios we are called in for most often, one for every line of work we do. Each one is diagnosed first, fixed second, and documented third.
Queries that time out
Reports that take minutes. Reports that time out under load. A database nobody dares change because they do not know what is holding it back.
Backups nobody has tested
A nightly job that might be failing silently. A restore procedure written in 2019 that no one has run since.
Migrations that terrify the business
A cutover date nobody believes. No rollback plan. No one who has done it before sitting in the room when it happens.
Pipelines that fail quietly
A Kafka consumer that skipped four percent of records and told nobody. A NiFi flow that half-worked after an update.
Fibre that drops and nobody can find why
Intermittent loss, splice faults, degraded optical power, or equipment that needs a replacement part with a six-week lead time.
IT support that is just whoever is around
No monitoring, no patching discipline, no escalation path, and a phone number that rings into a void at 3am.
Compliance evidence you cannot produce
NITA-U and the Personal Data Protection Office want evidence. Your data map, access reviews and retention settings were never written down.
Nobody can draw the estate
Three diagrams that disagree with each other. Capacity planned on last year of traffic. A single cable, a single power feed, one box holding everything up.
Sites with no documentation
Cabling inherited from three contractors. Drawings that do not match reality. Warranty gaps nobody tracked.
The rack that only works on paper
A proposal signed off from a floor plan. Equipment ordered before anyone checked it fits, or that the fibre route reaches without a bend the budget cannot cover.
A website that costs you clients
Pages so slow that visitors leave before they read a word. Content nobody can update without a developer. A form that does not send, and no handover document.
Devices that report nothing
Sensors that give wrong readings because nobody calibrated them. Firmware flashed once and never touched again. Data that lands somewhere nobody looks, so the alert never reaches a person.
Capability
Multiple technical disciplines, one accountable team
One team means one person accountable across the whole system, and nobody pointing fingers at another supplier when something fails.
Data & Database
Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB. Tuning, migrations, replication, failover, backup and recovery testing.
Pipelines & ETL
NiFi, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, dbt. Ingestion, transformation, observability, and pipelines designed to survive their own failures.
Telecom & Fibre
OLT, NetEngine 8000, DWDM, OSN, STM, MPBN. Backbone design, FTTH delivery, splicing, optical power management, SLA management.
IT Support & Maintenance
Linux and Windows, desktop and server. Monitoring, patching, incident response, asset registers, and handover documentation that survives staff changes.
Compliance Evidence
NITA-U and PDPO technical evidence. Physical and logical layer audit, the combination most suppliers skip.
3D Design & Visualisation
Rack elevations, fibre routes and site layouts rendered in 3D, so proposals and handover packs are understood before they are signed.
Web, Embedded Systems & IoT Development
Fast, accessible websites and web applications for businesses, institutions and NGOs. Quick to load, easy to rank, and maintainable after handover.
How it works
From a free call to a certified system
No discovery invoices. No retainers you did not agree to. The first conversation costs nothing and the second is a fixed price.
Free 5-minute consult
Phone or WhatsApp. Enough to understand the shape of the problem. No obligation, no sales pitch.
Written quotation
Itemised, fixed scope, validity period stated. You see exactly what you are buying before anything starts.
Fund and procure
You pay the supplier directly, or fund procurement we execute on your behalf. We hold no stock, so our hardware markup stays lean, and your total lands below a reseller’s.
Deliver and certify
Installed, configured and tested against the design. Test results and as-built documentation handed over at completion.
Support by agreement
Maintenance and on-call retainers for the systems we built, with documented response times and no finger-pointing.
Who we work with
Built for organisations that cannot afford downtime
Banks & MFIs
Mobile Money & Telcos
SACCOs & Credit Unions
NGOs & Multi-Site
Healthcare
Schools & Campuses
Hotels & Hospitality
Retail & POS
Professional Firms
Labs & Studios
Not sure which of these you fall into? That is what the first five minutes are for.
Talk to an engineer