diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 875b82375..083ccab00 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -1 +1 @@
-* @amsiglan @AWSHurneyt @getsaurabh02 @lezzago @praveensameneni @sbcd90 @eirsep @jowg-amazon @engechas
+* @amsiglan @AWSHurneyt @getsaurabh02 @lezzago @praveensameneni @sbcd90 @eirsep @jowg-amazon @engechas @riysaxen-amzn
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
index 11720e824..10b91fcd4 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS.md
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.md
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ This document contains a list of maintainers in this repo. See [opensearch-proje
 | Saurabh Singh         | [getsaurabh02](https://github.com/getsaurabh02)       | Amazon      |
 | Joanne Wang           | [jowg-amazon](https://github.com/jowg-amazon)         | Amazon      |
 | Chase Engelbrecht     | [engechas](https://github.com/engechas)               | Amazon      |
+| Riya Saxena           | [riysaxen-amzn](https://github.com/riysaxen-amzn))    | Amazon      |