Kai Tawarotip
// 17 years, QA to leading the Tools & Build/Release org. The standard is immutable: when the target moves, the commitment holds.
I started in QA and learned every stage of the pipeline. I don’t just manage builds — I understand how they’re made, and I fix what breaks.
When problems surface, I diagnose from first principles and solve with whatever tools the situation demands — from production schedules to writing the code myself. On Call of Duty that meant a 20–40-person engineering org and six years of live-service delivery — when the target moved, we re-planned the trajectory and still landed close to what we’d committed.
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.
Hands-on Engineering
When the situation demands it, I write the code myself — tools, automation, and fixes, not just tickets.
Three franchises + one live signal.
Bring me your hardest build.
The judgment to call what’s done, and the rigor to keep a moving target on course — six years of live-service Call of Duty, adjusting the plan without losing the commitment. That’s what I’d bring to your team.