diff --git a/.all-contributorsrc b/.all-contributorsrc
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index 0000000..2aba3e8
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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+  "files": [
+    "README.md"
+  ],
+  "imageSize": 100,
+  "commit": false,
+  "contributors": [
+    {
+      "login": "cybersiddhu",
+      "name": "Siddhartha Basu",
+      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/48740?v=4",
+      "profile": "http://cybersiddhu.github.com/",
+      "contributions": [
+        "bug",
+        "code",
+        "content",
+        "doc",
+        "maintenance",
+        "mentoring"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "contributorsPerLine": 7,
+  "projectName": "event-messenger",
+  "projectOwner": "dictyBase",
+  "repoType": "github",
+  "repoHost": "https://github.com",
+  "skipCi": true
+}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
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 # event-messenger
+<!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-BADGE:START - Do not remove or modify this section -->
+[![All Contributors](https://img.shields.io/badge/all_contributors-1-orange.svg?style=flat-square)](#contributors-)
+<!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-BADGE:END -->
 
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD%202--Clause-blue.svg)](LICENSE)  
 ![Continuous integration](https://github.com/dictyBase/event-messenger/workflows/Build/badge.svg?branch=develop)
@@ -49,3 +52,23 @@ GLOBAL OPTIONS:
 ![GitHub repo size](https://img.shields.io/github/repo-size/dictyBase/event-messenger?style=plastic)
 ![GitHub code size in bytes](https://img.shields.io/github/languages/code-size/dictyBase/event-messenger?style=plastic)
 [![Lines of Code](https://badgen.net/codeclimate/loc/dictyBase/event-messenger)](https://codeclimate.com/github/dictyBase/event-messenger/code)
+
+## Contributors ✨
+
+Thanks goes to these wonderful people ([emoji key](https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key)):
+
+<!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:START - Do not remove or modify this section -->
+<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
+<!-- markdownlint-disable -->
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td align="center"><a href="http://cybersiddhu.github.com/"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/48740?v=4?s=100" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Siddhartha Basu</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/dictyBase/event-messenger/issues?q=author%3Acybersiddhu" title="Bug reports">🐛</a> <a href="https://github.com/dictyBase/event-messenger/commits?author=cybersiddhu" title="Code">💻</a> <a href="#content-cybersiddhu" title="Content">🖋</a> <a href="https://github.com/dictyBase/event-messenger/commits?author=cybersiddhu" title="Documentation">📖</a> <a href="#maintenance-cybersiddhu" title="Maintenance">🚧</a> <a href="#mentoring-cybersiddhu" title="Mentoring">🧑‍🏫</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<!-- markdownlint-restore -->
+<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
+
+<!-- ALL-CONTRIBUTORS-LIST:END -->
+
+This project follows the [all-contributors](https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors) specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
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