Summary
Ricky Bhatia is a seasoned technology leader with nine years of experience building products that span low-level OS and silicon work up through consumer apps, SDKs/APIs and robotics, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led open innovation and tech incubation at Samsung North America—founding Samsung’s first US robotics research lab and scaling teams and startup collaborations that produced multiple commercialization wins, investments, and university partnerships. Prior roles in product and engineering at Savioke, Immersion, and Texas Instruments show a rare blend of hands-on engineering, product strategy, and go-to-market execution across haptics, embedded systems, and autonomous robots. Currently building at a stealth AI startup, he focuses on robotics, autonomous vehicles, fintech, IoT and cloud-enabled AI to bring novel user experiences to market. Known for reorganizing teams around domain research and T-shaped expertise, he consistently connects research, startups, and corporate R&D to create practical, revenue-driving products.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology