Frank Sikich

Frank Sikich currently serves as the Lead Platform Engineer at Hyatt Hotels Corporation, focusing on engineering data streaming solutions utilizing technologies such as Confluent Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, and ActiveMQ. Prior roles include Senior Platform Operations Engineer at Hyatt, where responsibilities included managing Kafka infrastructure, and Middleware Infrastructure Engineer at PNC Financial Services Group, implementing and automating middleware solutions. Sikich has extensive experience as a Senior Technical Consultant at National City Bank and as a system programmer for z/VM and z/Linux. Earlier in their career, roles included Senior Technical Instructor/Consultant at ProTech Professional Technical Services and Developer/Instructor at Legent Corp., where Frank taught automation classes and developed automation applications. Sikich's educational background includes a degree from Cleveland State University.