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 | Maintainer                | GitHub ID                                           | Affiliation |
 | ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
 | Vacha Shah                | [VachaShah](https://github.com/VachaShah)           | Amazon      |
-| Daniel Doubrovkine        | [dblock](https://github.com/dblock)                 | Amazon      |
+| Daniel Doubrovkine        | [dblock](https://github.com/dblock)                 | Independent |
 | Harsha Vamsi Kalluri      | [harshavamsi](https://github.com/harshavamsi)       | Amazon      |
 | Aleksei Atavin            | [axeoman](https://github.com/axeoman)               | Aiven       |
 | Denis Zalevskiy           | [deztructor](https://github.com/deztructor)         | Aiven       |