Recognizing the January 2026 Members of the Month

AmyReyes
Community Manager

Check out January's Members of the Month!

 

The Rising Star

 

The Rising Star award recognizes our top new contributor. To achieve this award, you must fulfill BOTH of the below criteria:

  • Joined within the past 3 months
  • Written the most posts in that time compared to your fellow new users

 

This month’s Rising Star award goes to @AJAY2. Since joining in mid-December, @AJAY2  has contributed 25 posts and received 2 kudos by asking thoughtful, detailed questions and engaging in great follow up with other members to provide more context when needed. 

 

AJAY2_star.png

@AJAY2 
 

Thanks for your posts @AJAY2  — we hope you'll continue to find value from participating in our community!

 

Everybody Wins

 

This award allows us to highlight the actions of a member whose recent contributions created a win for everyone involved.

 

This month's award goes to @James_Craig who updated the MS130-8P-I svg for use in Visio or LucidChart to more closely match the official documentation. By improving the product stencil and making it available publicly in the community, @James_Craig is helping out countless members who may want to use it in the future. 

 

James_Craig_win.png

@James_Craig

 

Thanks @James_Craig for taking the time to help your fellow Community members and do the right thing!

 

The Top Twelve

 

Here, we congratulate our top twelve contributors of the month, based on the number of kudos they’ve received and accepted solutions they’ve authored. This month these amazing members provided the community with 30 solutions and received a total of 1,005 kudos for their efforts. Incredible!

 

 
philipdath_motm.png
@PhilipDAth

169 kudos

5 solutions

MOTM score: 179

rwelch_motm.png
@RWelch

142 kudos

5 solutions

MOTM score: 152

Brash_MOTM.png
@Brash

82 kudos

3 solutions

MOTM score: 88

cmr_motm.png
@cmr

81 kudos

3 solutions

MOTM score: 87

alemabrahao_motm.png
@alemabrahao

74 kudos

6 solutions

MOTM score: 86

mloraditch_motm.png
@Mloraditch

76 kudos

4 solutions

MOTM score: 84

RaphaelL_motm.png
@RaphaelL

80 kudos

1 solutions

MOTM score: 82

blakerichardson_motm.png
@BlakeRichardson

67 kudos

1 solutions

MOTM score: 69

inderdeep.png
@Inderdeep

64 kudos

1 solutions

MOTM score: 66

darrenoc_motm.png
@DarrenOC

63 kudos

0 solutions

MOTM score: 63

karsteni_motm.png
@KarstenI

55 kudos

0 solutions

MOTM score: 55

jimmyt234_motm.png
@JamesT91

52 kudos

1 solutions

MOTM score: 54

(MOTM score = kudos received + 2*solutions authored)

 

 

Employee of the Month

 

This award allows us to highlight the actions of a Meraki employee whose contributions have made a significant impact on the community or helped our members in some way.

 

This month’s award goes to @spaladug for working with the community to get issues with dark mode fixed and for providing updates back to our members! @spaladug went above and beyond to deliver a great experience and address feedback. 

 

spaladug.png

@spaladug
 

Thank you for your continued helpfulness to Meraki Community members!

 

Congratulations to all of our stellar contributors

 and thanks to everyone who participated on the community in January!

 


  

If you come across a truly helpful thread or a post that’s teeming with positivity, and you’d like to nominate the author for the Everybody Wins award, you can submit your nomination directly to the Community team via PM. 

10 Comments
cmr
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

Thank you everyone and a big personal shout out to @spaladug for those dark mode fixes.  Thank you for the fixes and also showing us the Meraki still has a friendly face 😎

RWelch
Kind of a big deal

Congratulations to all contributors and many thanks for your participation / willingness to assist others!

BlakeRichardson
Kind of a big deal

Well done everyone. Great work as always!

Mloraditch
Kind of a big deal

Great Job Everyone!

spaladug
Meraki Employee All-Star

@cmr Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and the many others that chimed in too on that thread. Glad I could help make a difference on many of those and still following up on a few more of them 🙂 

 

Appreciate everyone's willingness to share feedback and help each other. It is very valuable feedback that we at Cisco enjoy hearing.

DarrenOC
Kind of a big deal

Congratulations everyone. Nice to see a few new faces to the mix.

DarrenOC
Kind of a big deal

DarrenOC_0-1770664974048.png

 

Love the new badge @AmyReyes 

 

PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal

A special thanks to @AJAY2 , @James_Craig and @spaladug , and of course to all those you participate and help.

Brash
Kind of a big deal

Congratulations everyone, great start to the year.

Some very deserved winners this month!

 

 

Inderdeep
Kind of a big deal

Congratulations everyone including me this time 🙂