Summary
Frank Sikernitsky is a seasoned technology executive and builder with over two decades of experience shaping product, engineering and IT strategy across startups and global enterprises; he now serves as Chief Information Officer at Step Up For Students while advising growth-stage companies. He blends hands-on engineering (AWS/Azure/GCP, Python, Node.js, major LLM APIs) with executive leadership, having founded multiple companies and led architecture at UBS. Frank focuses on the intersection of emerging AI and business change management—he writes books, ships AI apps, and recruits the teams to operationalize models intended to last decades. Known for moving fluently between code and the boardroom, he pairs secure-by-design architecture and full-stack fluency with a practical bias for deployment and measurable outcomes. Based in Hoboken, NJ, he’s as comfortable writing production LLM integrations as he is running live events and mentoring data engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Trinity College-Hartford