Kai Tawarotip
// 17 years, QA to leading a 20–40-person engineering org on Call of Duty. The standard is immutable: when the target moves, the commitment holds.
/** * role Senior Producer · * Technical Program Manager * track 2006 → 2023 · 17 shipped * now independent technical work · 2023 → * base Los Angeles * avail on-site | hybrid | remote */
I started in QA and learned every stage of the pipeline. I understand how builds are made, and I fix what breaks.
When something on the production side is clearly wrong and it isn’t anyone’s job to fix, that tends to land on my desk. Crash rate on Call of Duty was the kind nobody hands you: the visibility to defend it didn’t exist, so I stood up a daily crash review and defended an under-3% per-platform target from 2021 through 2023.
More broadly, on Call of Duty I led a 20–40-person engineering org across six years of delivery, with Warzone’s live service running underneath from 2020. When the target moved, we re-planned the trajectory and still landed close to what we’d committed. In 2023 I stepped away on a deliberate sabbatical to go deeper technically; now I’m ready to bring that back to a studio team.
A live error was surfacing across Warzone and being worked as many separate problems: different symptoms, different owners, no shared cause. It was one problem, hotfixed the same day once the cause was found. Where each durable fix landed is in the full report.
Read the full field report →What I do.
Senior production and technical leadership across the full pipeline, from greenlight to a shipped, stable build.
Production & Delivery
Run teams, schedules, and milestones to ship titles on time: pre-production through launch.
Program Management
Risk tracking, dependency mapping, incident response, and cross-team launch coordination that holds under pressure.
Pipeline & Tooling
Diagnose build, release, and live-ops pipeline problems from first principles and drive them to resolution.
Build Direction
I own the build end to end, directing the tools, automation, and fixes through to shipped.
Three franchises + one live signal.
Bring me your hardest build.
I’m returning to studio work in a senior production or TPM role where the technical side matters. If that’s your team, or you have a build, release or live-ops problem that needs a diagnosis, get in touch.
Full-time senior production / TPM roles · contract production and program management · short diagnostic engagements (build, release, live-ops pipeline).