You can perhaps learn more about their involvement in the community from this year’s summit panel interview: https://youtu.be/vKsOFHNSb4Q
In a brief search, they’re engineering manager for GitLab, appear to be a frequent contributor of high-difficulty patches to Git in general, and are listed as a possible mentor for new contributors.
Given the recent summit, it seems likely that this plan was discussed there; I hadn’t dug into that possibility further but you could if desired.