# Madhav Soni

> Founder @ Bazar

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/madhavsoni

Creative technologist building bespoke digital products and the infrastructure behind them. Proven experience operating nationally operated marketplace platforms while developing boutique commerce applications with differentiated distribution strategies across industries. The work has focused on product discovery, payments, logistics integration, and systems that better support independent brands and local merchants

Personal interests: design, technology, local commerce, artistry, artisanship, bohemianism, process thinking, mental wellbeing, absurdity, and digital media 

See some of our current work:   

https://bazar.earth   

https://withbites.com   

https://planwithmuse.com   

https://skedge-web.web.app

Request to see full portfolio: 

https://bazar.earth/madhavSoni

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Bites
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Powering the next generation of restaurant commerce

### Founder @ Bazar
Jan 2020 – Present | Thousand Oaks, CA
• Founded and grew Bazar from an online marketplace for 800+ local artists,
artisans, and merchants into a simplified dropshipping platform enabling
purchases from Amazon with Prime shipping benefits for non-Prime users.
• Built and maintained the full-stack platform (React, Express, AWS) with
advanced e-commerce features including search, sorting, filtering, pagination,
and recommendations across tens of thousands of products.
• Developed a social media studio integrated with the platform, enabling
cross-platform posting and content management for merchants.
• Designed and marketed the platform.
• Leveraged social media marketing, videography, and email campaigns to drive
user acquisition and engagement.

### Product Manager @ Topsort
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Chile
Chatting with marketplace teams around the world about in-site merchant advertising and the auto-bidding algorithm, which allows marketplaces with high consumer demand and a competing supply to create an economically efficient system for in-site merchant advertising, while creating a new revenue stream for these marketplaces. Specifically, developing quick to add retail media elements to pre-existing marketplace structures

### Software @ Toast, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area

### House Manager @ Berkeley Student Cooperative
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA, United States

### Software @ QVSTA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berlin Area, Germany

### Web Developer @ ProbabilityManagement.org
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Video Producer @ The Daily Californian
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, California


## Education
### Cognitive Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Westlake High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/madhavsoni
- Portfolio: https://bazar-prime.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11