diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index ac62f0d2e8..27cd050175 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # This should match the owning team set up in https://github.com/orgs/opensearch-project/teams
-*   @divbok @sb2k16 @san81 @srikanthjg @graytaylor0 @dinujoh @kkondaka @KarstenSchnitter @dlvenable @oeyh @Zhangxunmt
\ No newline at end of file
+*   @divbok @sb2k16 @san81 @srikanthjg @graytaylor0 @dinujoh @kkondaka @srikanthpadakanti @KarstenSchnitter @dlvenable @oeyh @Zhangxunmt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
index a0c3e5613e..a61502e609 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS.md
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ This document contains a list of maintainers in this repo. See [opensearch-proje
 | Taylor Gray            | [graytaylor0](https://github.com/graytaylor0)             | Amazon      |
 | Dinu John              | [dinujoh](https://github.com/dinujoh)                     | Amazon      |
 | Krishna Kondaka        | [kkondaka](https://github.com/kkondaka)                   | Amazon      |
+| Srikanth Padakanti     | [srikanthpadakanti](https://github.com/srikanthpadakanti) | Apple      |
 | Karsten Schnitter      | [KarstenSchnitter](https://github.com/KarstenSchnitter)   | SAP         |
 | David Venable          | [dlvenable](https://github.com/dlvenable)                 | Amazon      |
 | Hai Yan                | [oeyh](https://github.com/oeyh)                           | Amazon      |