diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 859138f4c4..ffa2e33444 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -1 +1 @@
-* @cwperks @DarshitChanpura @peternied @RyanL1997 @stephen-crawford @reta @willyborankin
+* @cwperks @DarshitChanpura @nibix @peternied @RyanL1997 @stephen-crawford @reta @willyborankin
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
index 69dd039815..be4a41dc03 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS.md
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ This document contains a list of maintainers in this repo. See [opensearch-proje
 | Stephen Crawford | [scrawfor99](https://github.com/stephen-crawford)     | Amazon      |
 | Andriy Redko     | [reta](https://github.com/reta)                       | Aiven       |
 | Andrey Pleskach  | [willyborankin](https://github.com/willyborankin)     | Aiven       |
+| Nils Bandener    | [nibix](https://github.com/nibix)                     | Eliatra     |
 
 ## Emeritus