Nicole Buckenwolf is a Senior Staff Ontologist at Spotify, working on a small central team responsible for ontology/taxonomy and domain modeling across the company's media catalog. The team serves as an expert resource for groups across the organization, helping teams improve interoperability, align their models to best practices, and extend them to new use cases.

Specializing in knowledge representation for subjective and emotionally resonant domains, her interdisciplinary background spans music performance, history, linguistics, and the non-profit sector, informing an approach attentive to cultural context and inclusive practice.