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 ## Current Maintainers
 
 | Maintainer            | GitHub ID                                     | Affiliation |
-|-----------------------|-----------------------------------------------|-------------|
+| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
 | Anan Zhuang           | [ananzh](https://github.com/ananzh)           | Amazon      |
 | Kawika (Rocky) Avilla | [kavilla](https://github.com/kavilla)         | Amazon      |
-| Daniel Doubrovkine    | [dblock](https://github.com/dblock)           | Amazon      |
+| Daniel Doubrovkine    | [dblock](https://github.com/dblock)           | Independent |
 | Vacha Shah            | [VachaShah](https://github.com/VachaShah)     | Amazon      |
 | Theo Truong           | [nhtruong](https://github.com/nhtruong)       | Amazon      |
 | Harsha Vamsi Kalluri  | [harshavamsi](https://github.com/harshavamsi) | Amazon      |
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ This document contains a list of maintainers in this repo. See [opensearch-proje
 ## Emeritus
 
 | Maintainer    | GitHub ID                                     | Affiliation |
-|---------------|-----------------------------------------------|-------------|
+| ------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
 | Bishoy Boktor | [boktorbb](https://github.com/boktorbb)       | Amazon      |
 | Mihir Soni    | [mihirsoni](https://github.com/mihirsoni)     | Amazon      |
 | Sean Neumann  | [seanneumann](https://github.com/seanneumann) | Amazon      |