diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 8a3584b0b8d0..282588569170 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@
   retrry = "Tadas Barzdžius <retrry@gmail.com>";
   rick68 = "Wei-Ming Yang <rick68@gmail.com>";
   rickynils = "Rickard Nilsson <rickynils@gmail.com>";
+  rlupton20 = "Richard Lupton <richard.lupton@gmail.com>";
   rnhmjoj = "Michele Guerini Rocco <micheleguerinirocco@me.com>";
   rob = "Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas@gmail.com>";
   robberer = "Longrin Wischnewski <robberer@freakmail.de>";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/helm/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/helm/default.nix
index 6cd751f970d8..58ac31ce49f5 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/helm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/helm/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "${checksum}";
   };
 
+  preferLocalBuild = true;
+
   buildInputs = [ ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ kubernetes ];
@@ -37,6 +39,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     homepage = https://github.com/kubernetes/helm;
     description = "A package manager for kubernetes";
     license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.rlupton20 ];
     platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
   };
 }