Summary
Tracy Forzaglia is a Senior Product Manager and information architect with 11 years of experience designing taxonomies, metadata systems, and knowledge graphs that make large content collections discoverable and machine-actionable. She has led metadata strategy and operationalized generative AI tagging and prompt design across organizations including Adobe, Spotify, Scholastic, and Picsart, translating product needs into scalable metadata and ML workflows. Tracy combines library science training (MLIS) with hands-on data and engineering skills (SQL, Python, ML bootcamps), enabling pragmatic integration between content teams and engineers. She’s built enterprise-scale ontologies for recommendation and personalization use cases—powering Adobe Stock’s 270M+ assets and Spotify’s personalized audio taxonomy. Known for cross-functional leadership, she blends user research, tooling selection, and annotation program design to improve both human and AI labeling accuracy. Based in New York, she brings a librarian’s rigor and a developer’s curiosity to bridge people, machines, and delightful content experiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Introduction to SQL, Introduction to SQL at Cascadia College
BA Liberal Arts, BA Liberal Arts at Penn State University
Coursework User-Centered Design (UX/UI), Coursework User-Centered Design (UX/UI) at Parsons School of Design - The New School
Introduction to Python, Introduction to Python at DataCamp
MLIS Library and Information Sciences, MLIS Library and Information Sciences at San José State University
Python and Machine Learning Bootcamp, Python and Machine Learning Bootcamp at General Assembly