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+# Maintainers
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+| Maintainer               | GitHub ID                                         | Affiliation |
+| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
+| Heather Halter           | [hdhalter](https://github.com/hdhalter)           | Amazon      |
+| Nate Archer              | [Naarcha-AWS](https://github.com/Naarcha-AWS)     | Amazon      |
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+[This document](https://github.com/opensearch-project/.github/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md) explains what maintainers do in this repo, and how they should be doing it. If you're interested in contributing, see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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