Gavin is an Oracle Certfied Master (OCM),Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) as well as an Oracle Certified Cloud Infrastructure Architect and has been working with Oracle software for the past 25 years from versions 7.0 right until the latest version 21c.

He previously worked for Emirates Airline Group in Dubai before migrating to Australia in 2008 and is currently based in Perth, Western Australia. Gavin is a regular presenter at the Australian Oracle User Group events as well as other international events like AIOUG, APAC Ground Breakers tour and hosts a highly popular blog site https://gavinsoorma.com, which has attracted over 12 million visitors since its launch in 2010.

Currently working on a number of projects involving exciting Oracle technologies like ZDLRA, Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM), Audit Vault and Database Firewall and Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service.