diff --git a/dev-util/tree-sitter-cli/metadata.xml b/dev-util/tree-sitter-cli/metadata.xml
index 944295ace2bde..4f402deb02673 100644
--- a/dev-util/tree-sitter-cli/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-util/tree-sitter-cli/metadata.xml
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
   <email>matthew@gentoo.org</email>
   <name>Matthew Smith</name>
 </maintainer>
-<maintainer type="person">
-  <email>mva@gentoo.org</email>
-  <name>Vadim Misbakh-Soloviov</name>
-</maintainer>
 <maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
   <email>abdelqaderali@protonmail.com</email>
   <name>Ali Abdel-Qader</name>