In the environments I’ve worked in it was always a battle between IT and the programming staff.
I once had to deal with a homebrew worm because one of the devs wanted more compute power and took over the network.
A lot of people assume IT and developers are cut of the same cloth but the professions are quite different.
Try your luck searching for someone on https://www.fiverr.com/
Just a heads up it looks like the dev is doing a major overhaul to the project and might reject the pull request to merge the change.
https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid
Findroid is currently being rewritten to Jetpack Compose. Because of this, the main branch may be unusable for some time. Also, please refrain from creating pull requests which involve the old Views based UI.