diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
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--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Development Lead
 Contributors
 ------------
 
-* Aaron McDaid <aaron.mcdaid@zalando.de>
 * Darya Dedik <darya.dedik@zalando.de>
 * Dominic Heger <dominic.heger@zalando.de>
 * Grigory Bordyugov <grigory.bordyugov@zalando.de>
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
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--- a/MAINTAINERS.md
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 Maintainers
 ------------
 
-* aaron.mcdaid@zalando.de
 * darya.dedik@zalando.de
 * grigory.bordyugov@zalando.de
 * shan.huang@zalando.de