diff --git a/.all-contributorsrc b/.all-contributorsrc
index 45f5def3d6..f2a94815d9 100644
--- a/.all-contributorsrc
+++ b/.all-contributorsrc
@@ -401,6 +401,16 @@
       "contributions": [
         "doc"
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "login": "kkothari2001",
+      "name": "Kush Kothari",
+      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/53650538?v=4",
+      "profile": "https://github.com/kkothari2001",
+      "contributions": [
+        "code",
+        "test"
+      ]
     }
   ],
   "contributorsPerLine": 7,
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 067bc9bd77..26312c1636 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ Thanks especially to the gracious help of Awkward Array contributors (including
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td align="center" valign="top" width="14.28%"><a href="https://www.mloning.com/"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/21020482?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt="Markus Löning"/><br /><sub><b>Markus Löning</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/commits?author=mloning" title="Documentation">📖</a></td>
+      <td align="center" valign="top" width="14.28%"><a href="https://github.com/kkothari2001"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/53650538?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt="Kush Kothari"/><br /><sub><b>Kush Kothari</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/commits?author=kkothari2001" title="Code">💻</a> <a href="https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/commits?author=kkothari2001" title="Tests">⚠️</a></td>
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 </table>