Kellyn Gorman
Redgate Advocate And Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKellyn Gorman is a multiplatform database advocate and engineer with nearly three decades of deep technical experience spanning relational databases, cloud platforms, and AI. She currently shapes product and community strategy as an Advocate and Engineer at Redgate while advising and building data/AI initiatives for Silk, applying hands-on expertise across Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and major public clouds. A sought-after speaker, author and mentor, Kellyn translates high‑end performance tuning and architecture into accessible guidance—running the long‑standing technical blog DBAKevlar and contributing books on database optimization, DevOps and gender equity in tech. Her background includes senior roles at Microsoft, Oracle and Delphix where she combined enterprise migrations, Exadata/Dataguard/RAC optimization and automation to solve large-scale production challenges. Beyond product work she has developed STEM curriculum and volunteers with WIT initiatives, reflecting a rare blend of production-grade engineering and community-driven advocacy. An interesting facet: she pairs legacy database mastery with a forward-looking focus on AI and cloud-native patterns, enabling pragmatic modernization rather than theoretical designs.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
OCP, OCP at Oracle University
Github Skills (20)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
azure10
health8
simplify7
performance-tuning7
azure-storage6
blitz5
sp-blitz5
jekyll4
sql-server4
workload4
microsoft-sql-server4
automation3
iaas3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Dbakevlar/Misc-BASH
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
EDUSolution/AutoEDU
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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