Madhura Jayaratne is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate of University of Moratuwa. Currently he works as a software engineer and is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

He is a member of phpMyAdmin team and has contributed with GIS support for the software, which will be a part of its future releases. He continues to contribute by coding and translating the software.

Rouslan Placella, based in Cork, Ireland, is currently completing an Honors degree in Software Development at the Cork Institute of Technology. Born in Saint Petersbourg in 1985, his enthusiasm for programming and electronics was nurtured from a very early age. He is passionate about high performance and secure software and has been contributing to open source software with phpMyAdmin and Geeklog. During the summer of 2011 he took part in the Google Summer of Code program, where he developed an improved interface for MySQL routines, triggers, and events for phpMyAdmin. He currently also teaches Math and programming to second and third-level students.