About Me

👋 Hi, I’m Doron Katz — a Staff Technical Program Manager at Walmart, author, podcaster, and passionate advocate for scaling operational excellence through agile leadership and modern reliability engineering. I live in beautiful Kirkland, Washington, where I balance my professional life with community service, creativity, and family.

With over 15 years of cross-industry experience spanning cloud, e-commerce, retail tech, civic tech, and health innovation, I’ve led global programs at Amazon, Axon, and Whole Foods, and now drive SRE-focused initiatives at Walmart. My expertise lies in building scalable platforms, maturing CI/CD pipelines, managing complex migrations, and championing high-trust, high-performance teams.

🛠 Staff TPM @ Walmart

At Walmart, I lead operational excellence within the SRE org — driving reliability, automation, and scale through production readiness, chaos engineering, and continuous delivery strategies. My work helps power the PeopleTech platform at one of the world’s largest companies.

🎙 Founder @ TPM University

TPM University is a content and community platform for technical program managers to learn, connect, and grow. I create practical, scenario-based learning content — including my podcast, TPMU, where I explore modern TPM leadership, GenAI, and agile practices.

🏡 President @ High Woodlands HOA

I’m proud to serve my local community as HOA President, where I foster transparency, lead modernization efforts, and champion new ideas to bring neighbors closer.

🎧 Chapter Director @ TPM Events

Through TPM Events, I help unite the Pacific Northwest TPM community with meetups, guest panels, and educational talks. We bring thought leaders and practitioners together to share real-world lessons.

⚾️ Board Member @ Kirkland National Little League

I volunteer to enhance digital engagement and tools for our youth sports programs, helping streamline operations and boost community participation.

🚀 Launched Filmmaker Mode on Prime Video, a first-of-its-kind collaboration with LG and Samsung for immersive TV experiences.

• 🛡 Led a FedRAMP certification program for Axon’s federal law enforcement platform, coordinating across eight teams and multiple agencies.

• 📊 Built a Video Player-as-a-Service at Amazon that served products like IMDb TV and Amazon Music across multiple platforms.

• 🎯 Spearheaded machine learning-driven product optimization at Samba TV, increasing opt-in rates across Europe by 65%.

• 📚 Authored “Continuous Delivery for Mobile Apps” (Packt Publishing) and produced technical courses for LinkedIn Learning.

I thrive on helping people and programs scale — whether it’s building resilient systems, evolving organizational maturity, or mentoring the next generation of TPMs. I believe in the power of curiosity, clarity, and community to transform both products and people.

Let’s connect and build something great — whether you’re launching a new tech platform, building your TPM org, or just geeking out over AI and DevOps.