24/09/2026
15 years in the same company is rare in software. Today we're celebrating Dan, who has spent 15 of them at jpard.
Ask his colleagues what that looks like, and few of them start with code. They mention the mug, laptop and notebook set out for a new joiner's first morning. Meetings that start on time, every time. POCs run alongside live projects, so the team meets a new technology before a client ever asks for it. Juniors who learned the job sitting next to him.
Across all those messages, four words kept coming back, the same four we try to work by: integrity, adaptability, care, accountability. Dan stays calm when a project doesn't, asks the question everyone else is avoiding, and makes sure the people around him grow. One colleague put it as the advice she gives everyone else: "Be like Dan."
Thank you, Dan, for the teams you've built, the people you've grown, and the standard you keep setting!