diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index b752b171d6c..247aa7a9a25 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com> (@mitake) pkg:*
 Marek Siarkowicz <siarkowicz@google.com> <marek.siarkowicz@gmail.com> (@serathius) pkg:*
 Piotr Tabor <piotr.tabor@gmail.com> (@ptabor) pkg:*
 Sahdev Zala <spzala@us.ibm.com> (@spzala) pkg:*
+Wenjia Zhang <wenjiazhang@google.com> <wenjia.swe@gmail.com> (@wenjiaswe) pkg:*
 
 # REVIEWERS
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5dcdd0fc9bd..f42bc5566ea 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ These emeritus maintainers dedicated a part of their career to etcd and reviewed
 * Joe Betz
 * Gyuho Lee
 * Jingyi Hu
-* Wenjia Zhang
 * Xiang Li
 * Ben Darnell
 * Sam Batschelet