Emacs as your code-compass: what code is this contributor familiar with?
What part of the codebase are you (or some of your coworker) unfamiliar with? Can Emacs tell you?
With code-compass this is super easy. I have just modified slightly the knowledge analysis to support this use case. Now it also asks you about a set of contributors to filter the analysis upon.
Here how it looks:
Happy familiarizing!