You can follow my phpMyAdmin adventure on this blog post.
After a lot of hours contributing to phpMyAdmin I received an unexpected invitation to join the team. That day was on the 27/08/2018, a very happy day ! Since then I am a phpMyAdmin team member.
I worked for phpMyAdmin from the 01/12/2020 to 30/11/2022. With some months where I was working for other clients or my own projects.
You can find my reports: here