Family and friends
As many of you know David Joyce passed away on Wednesday, September 16, 2020. He was an incredibly funny and energetic person that always found time to help others. Losing him impacts us all in different ways. We want to create a space here to honor his memory and the time we spent with him not just as coworkers, but as friends.
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Join MemoriesDilip M Watching the IPO from our temporary offices at TD Tower. The memories of the small group of us, is something, I think, we will always remember and cherish
Ajay Thomas When we first got a real office in Toronto, the YYZ crew was building. With DJ finally getting out of the Alaska room in the TD building, and into the light.
Ajay Thomas Defcon 2017 - When I started getting to know DJ well. We went to the gun range, and we had a blast. He sure knows how to have fun and to get everyone on board.
Kenneth Wang We had a good laugh about this together didn't we buddy? I'm glad we shared a similar type of stupidity for humour.
Vicky Xiong Christmas 2017--David set up a Christmas tree along with a Festivus for the rest of us!
Vitalii Slobodianyk Santa's present after a Secret Santa party. The office was turned into a battlefield for a while.
Ajay Thomas A better photo of Christmas 2017, in the Slack office. With DJ setting up the festivus pole.
Vicky Xiong Summer 2018, David with his intern Rhys. David was a phenomenal mentor, and a super fun Intern Coordinator!
Vicky Xiong Yak Yak's Comedy club
Vicky Xiong David organized an axe-throwing team event! When he told me he is taking the team axe-throwing, I thought he was joking. Turned out to be a Canadian thing...
Jad Siblini Blue Jays baseball game outing organized by David for the 2018 interns
Zhi Rui Du Intern outing for summer of 2018
Vicky Xiong Deadpool the movie!
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Vicky Xiong Wining and dining our 2018 interns!
Vicky Xiong I visit the Toronto office every summer for the past few years. I had learned that in Canada, they carry a lot more novelty Kit Kat flavors than the US, so I was going to try to get a few bars to bring back to the States. But when I tried to look in a few stores near the Okta office, all the other US tourists seemed to have gotten to them before I did; I wasn't able to find any! I mentioned this when I was casually chatting with David the next day, over coffee. That evening, he sent me these pictures. Apparently on the way home, he went to a store by his house, and bought ALL the bars off the shelf! He brought them to me the next day, I was in absolute disbelief! I brought them back home to share with San Francisco colleagues, friends, and family, making lots of people very happy, and it was all thanks to David.
Igor Babiy David was the only one who agreed to help me to pickup my dog from the airport when I moved to Canada. He rented a van and dropped me to the YYZ cargo section and waited patiently there. Then he helped me to load the kennel and drove me back home. He was that kind of person who could always come and help with whatever you ask. On the video he's saying to my dog - "Horoshiy malchik" - "good boy"
Haoyu Li Abdullah, David and I (haoyu) went to Las Vegas for DefCon 2018, and we had such a good time hanging around. David and I woke up 3 AM in the morning to line up for Okta to get our official tickets, and he is so passionate about the LED gadget the the seminar provided, he convinced me to buy 5 of them, and I did !
Kenneth Wang When we first got our hoverboard and took them out for a test drive.
Kenneth Wang David giggling at my hoverboard antics at the old Stack building.
Brian Huang Cold winter of 2019, we went on an outing to the ballroom bowling alley with the Toronto office. Turns out a good bunch of us were bad at bowling but we had fun nonetheless.
Brian Huang Annual Okta party at 2019
Brian Huang Small team dinner among engineering services in San Fransisco during EKO. Rare occasion of Toronto and SF team members get to gather together :)
Jad Siblini California Coast road trip after Okta Engineering Kick Off week.
Laura Rodriguez International Women's Day celebration in the Toronto office.
Kenneth Wang Celebratory dinner that David treated me to when OKTA hit $85. David was always generous and cared much less about money than he did about using that money to share experiences with his friends.
Jad Siblini Yearly Axe Throwing event
Erica Greene A snapshot of the 40+ people who joined David's farwell :)