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 ### Approvers
 
+* [Aryan Ishan](https://github.com/aryanishan1001), Cisco
 * [DEBAJIT DAS](https://github.com/DebajitDas), Cisco
 * [Johannes Tax](https://github.com/pyohannes), Grafana Labs
 * [Josh Suereth](https://github.com/jsuereth), Google
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 * [Siim Kallas](https://github.com/seemk), Splunk
 * [Tobias Stadler](https://github.com/tobiasstadler)
 * [Tomasz Rojek](https://github.com/TomRoSystems)
-* [Aryan Ishan](https://github.com/aryanishan1001), Cisco
 
 For more information about the approver role, see the [community repository](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/guides/contributor/membership.md#approver).