Databricks Community Fellows – May 2026 Recap

[Tushar_Parekar]

Monthly Recap • May 2026

Community Fellows

Some Bricksters don't just answer questions, they build the infrastructure that makes the whole program run better for everyone. May was that kind of month.

📊 May by the Numbers

The Fellows kept showing up, in the forums, in the app, and in every corner of the community.

🎯 70

Questions Answered

Total technical questions answered by Fellows in May

📈 45%

of Forum Answers

Share of all technical forum answers powered by Fellows

⚡ 90%

SLA

Response time target met

🏅 May Leaderboard

The leaderboard captures more than replies, it captures the full weight of what Fellows put in each month.

🥇

Mitchell Grewer

@Commitchell 

253 pts

🥈

Ashwin Varadharajan

@Ashwin_DSA 

164 pts

🥉

Wang Lu

@Lu_Wang_ENB_DBX 

45 pts

A massive shout-out to every Fellow who showed up:

Louis Frolio @Louis_Frolio 
Mohan Mathews @MoJaMa 
Yedunathan Ambileriveettil @Yedunathan 
Aleksandra Chashchina @aleksandra_ch 
Stefan Bjelcevic @stbjelcevic 
Leonardo Galler @LeoGallerDbx 

🚀 Fellows Hub 2.0: We're Live

Fellows Hub is the platform that powers the Fellows program, where questions get routed, contributions get scored, and Fellows stay on top of their community work.

Big Launch • May 2026

After months of building, testing, and iterating, Fellows Hub 2.0 is officially here. This isn't an upgrade. It's a ground-up rebuild, and it changes the game for how Fellows work every day. Here's what's new:

🤖 Points Got Smarter

AI scoring pipeline (0–5) automatically awards points based on reply quality, technical accuracy, completeness, and tone.

🎯 The Queue Got Personal

Expertise-matched recommendations built on Fellow activity profiles and vector similarity search. No more flat question lists.

💡 Built-in Reply Coaching

AI-generated brief on the problem and likely causes, powered by Reply Intelligence.

🏅 Achievements & Milestones

Replaced static point thresholds with an AI-evaluated badge system that tracks real program milestones.

✨ CORA Leveled Up

Page-aware assistant that auto-triggers on context and injects relevant data before you even ask.

⚡ Everything Feels Faster

Migrated from Streamlit to React + FastAPI.

📖

Read the Full Story

Sub-second agents for the Databricks Community, a Lakebase story →

🎉 A Month Worth Celebrating

🎂 Mitchell Day, May 20

Mitchell Grewer

Mitchell is a volunteer who built critical infrastructure from scratch, just for us. Fellows Hub 2.0 exists because he read a PRD and turned it into something real, something every Fellow uses every single day.

On May 20, we made it official: Mitchell Day. We celebrated with a custom Community Architect badge and naturally, we couldn't let Mitchell Day pass without an ode…

Mitchell is the architect, the visionary, the hero
Without him, the Fellows would be a big zero
He read a PRD and created magic
Without him, the Fellows would be tragic
His delightful humor! His mighty brain!
Without him, the Fellows would be less sane
So three cheers for our Mitchell, the hero of community
He saw our problem as a Databricks opportunity
He created the Hub, saved the Fellows' day
And now we hope he is here to stay!

🏆 Cheers to Emma!

Emma Stowell

Emma doesn't just participate in this program, she shapes it. Growing it. Pushing it forward. Level 3 is the recognition, but the impact came long before the milestone.

🛠️ The Constant

Ashwin Varadharajan

Sprint after sprint, Ashwin shows up, not for the recognition, but because that's just who he is. The app is sharper and the forums don't wait long when Ashwin is around.

Thank You, Fellows 🙏

To every Fellow who showed up in May, in the forums, on the leaderboard, and in everything that doesn't show up in the numbers,THANK YOU. This program is what it is because of you.

Bricksters, Interested in Becoming a Fellow?

Behind every great community is a group of people who care enough to give their best, not because they have to, but because they know it matters. That's what being a Fellow is about.

Drive Real Change, directly shape the customer experience and feed insights back to Product.

Be Seen for It, recognized by leadership as a top-tier technical contributor.

Sharpen Your Edge, tackle the most complex, real-world Databricks challenges.

Ready to join? Hit up the Community Team on Slack at #community and let's make it happen.

[Commitchell]

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