Ria Bhatia is a senior product leader with 10 years of experience building social, AR, and cloud-native platform products from prototype to scale. Currently shaping chat experiences for millions at Roblox, she previously led Shared AR, Visual Positioning, and developer platform services at Niantic, and drove Kubernetes-related developer tooling and serverless extensions on Azure at Microsoft. She combines deep technical fluency in distributed systems and AR infrastructure with a founder’s mindset, having co-founded an AR/VR education startup that placed in a regional pitch contest. Known for shipping platform primitives (client, server, anti-cheat, VPS) that enable immersive social experiences, she thrives at the intersection of consumer product design and developer ecosystems. Based in San Francisco, Ria blends product rigor with hands-on engineering collaboration to turn complex spatial and social problems into widely adopted services.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Penn State University
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Ria Bhatia - Senior Product Manager, Social at Roblox