Frank Macreery is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with nine years of documented experience steering engineering teams and co-founding cloud-focused startups from New York. He co-founded and served as CTO (and briefly CEO) of Aptible for over a decade, evolving the company through product and leadership transitions before taking on dual CTO roles at Aptible and Opti9 Tech. His background spans hands-on software engineering to director-level management at companies like Artsy and XGraph, giving him breadth across product engineering, infrastructure, and security-conscious cloud tooling. A Princeton-trained computer scientist, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade delivery, often translating complex regulatory and security needs into operational platforms. Notably, his career reflects repeated founder-to-operator transitions, signaling a capacity to both invent and scale mission-critical engineering organizations.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer Science at Princeton University
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