Zoraida Rodriguez

This is why I joined Roblox, and now I get to support the team behind it. Before I started, I read a write-up of a real incident that happened at Roblox (https://lnkd.in/g2Mkh22J). Most companies bury that stuff. Roblox owned it openly and shared what they learned. That told me everything I needed to know about the place. We have now released a blog post that many of you will find interesting, "How Roblox Gives AI Agents Access Without Giving Them Credentials,"(https://lnkd.in/gy4bnqdb) tackling one of the hardest problems in security right now and sharing exactly how we are doing it. Proud doesn't cover it, this is the team I get to work with every day. Worth a read if you work near identity, access or AI security.

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I recently went back to job searching for the first time in 16 years. From the outside, it looked fast. Two months, three offers. Under the hood though, it had been years in the making. Every offer came from my network. The people who reached out weren’t strangers, they were contacts I’d stayed in touch with long before I knew I’d need them. Leaving my job didn’t start the process. It just accelerated it. That taught me something I wish I’d understood earlier: the best time to build relationships is when you don’t need anything from them. When I did enter active search mode, I stopped obsessing over outcomes and started paying attention to signals. How many people responded? How many interviews per week? Those numbers told me whether I was on the right track faster than any gut feeling. The last thing it taught me is harder to systematize: good things happen. It’s easy to spiral into pessimism mid-search. But the wheels turn. The right conversation happens. A door opens that wasn’t visible before. The job search is a lagging indicator of work you did years ago. Start now, even if you don’t need to.

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One of my big takeaways from TechCrunch Disrupt: The more a founder says “AI,” the less compelling their pitch becomes. AI shouldn’t 𝘣𝘦 the vision. It should 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 the vision. Founders who lead with “AI” often sound like they’re chasing a trend. Founders who lead with a problem worth solving sound like they’re building a company. AI is the brush, not the painting. #Startups #TechCrunchDisrupt2025 #AI #solopreneur

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At Roblox, we’re building toward a system that can continuously improve how we assess age, combining signals, evolving models, and calibrating confidence rather than relying on a single moment of verification. That creates a more sophisticated safety architecture: multiple signals → model improvement → confidence assessment → targeted intervention → feedback loop The opportunity is to make safety more adaptive and more precise. Stronger protection where it’s needed, with less unnecessary friction for everyone else. It’s a technically complex problem, but the objective is simple: build safer experiences without compromising the experience itself. Kudos to the teams innovating on this at Roblox. https://lnkd.in/gaU_MSrf

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Today we’re announcing some meaningful updates to our advertising business at Roblox — another step forward as we continue building the platform into a must-buy for brands looking to reach Gen Z and Gen Alpha. ✨ A few highlights I’m especially excited about: 🆕 Homepage Feature is now in beta — bringing brands directly onto the Roblox homepage and transforming traditional assets into immersive, native experiences. 🚀 Rewarded Video is officially at scale, live across 400+ experiences (including fan favorites like Grow a Garden and Dress to Impress), delivering ~95% viewability and ~90% completion rates. 🤝 We’re also making Roblox easier to buy, expanding our programmatic partnerships across the ecosystem. ⏩ And brands are already leaning in. 7 of the top 10 highest-grossing U.S. films in 2025 activated on Roblox, with major cultural moments like the Super Bowl and FIFA World Cup coming to the platform this year. Proud of the progress this team has made over the past year — and even more excited about what’s ahead in 2026. If you’re at CES this week, let’s connect. 👋 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gXfcBT66 #CES2026 #Roblox #Advertising #GenZ #ImmersiveAdvertising #FutureOfAdvertising

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Just wrapped up a great week at GDC. One thing was clear across conversations with developers, studios, and platform leaders: industry interest in Roblox is accelerating. More teams are recognizing the scale of the creator ecosystem and the opportunity to build entirely new kinds of experiences. Equally exciting is how creators are adopting AI. Not as a trend, but as a set of tools that help them move faster, experiment more, and raise the quality bar of what small teams can build. And as always, one of the best parts of GDC was reconnecting with longtime friends and colleagues across the industry. The energy around where games and creator platforms are heading next feels very real. #gdc #games #roblox

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🛡️ Proud to share a major stride forward: Roblox is now the first online gaming or communication platform to require facial age checks to access chat, establishing what we believe will become a new industry standard. This innovation supports age-based chat and limits communication between minors and adults. These new requirements will help us provide positive, age-appropriate experiences for all users on Roblox. We invite others in the industry to join us and follow our comprehensive appropach to help make the entire online world safer for children and teens. The rollout begins today with a voluntary age check period. The requirement will begin in select markets in early December and expand globally in early January wherever chat is available. Find all the details on this update here: https://lnkd.in/gn5WvMrE

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Excited to share some big news from Roblox today! 🚀 We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of Expanded Facial Age Checks and Age-Based Chat on Roblox. We are the first major consumer platform to require age checks for access to communication, setting a new safety standard for the industry. This crucial update helps ensure an age-appropriate experience for our community by limiting conversations to similar age groups. A massive congratulations and thank you to the hardworking, dedicated product, engineering, operations, and marketing teams who are bringing this privacy-first, groundbreaking innovation to life. Onward to a safer digital future!

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Cool presentation from Kushan Mehta on how we’re making AI more effective at Roblox with the Alignment Engine. He walked through how we ground models in our institutional knowledge, encode best practices, and create tighter feedback loops so AI systems actually improve over time instead of drifting. The focus was not just better outputs, but systems that learn what “good” looks like in a real engineering organization. Great to see him present to nearly 100 industry attendees. Even better to see that he drew the majority of follow-up questions. Lots of curious leaders are trying to figure out how to make their internal AI systems more reliable, aligned, and highly leveraged. The shift is clear. It is not about who has access to models. It is about who can align them. #AINative #Roblox #EngineeringLeadership

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