Programmer in the bank. Lived with mother and sister, nice people.
Spoke softly, with an ability to get you interested in what he says. And he was persistent - as a colleague said, "he comes with an idea, you kick him out the door a few times, he comes back through the window and continues from where he was stopped".
As a memento, I kept this as a tagline on UA for a while:
There are two kinds of lazy programmers: the first kind is too lazy to automate anything, so they'd rather type the same 200 char command sequence over and over; the second kind reacts whenever they have to do anything more than three times - they automate the task, even if it takes three days to do and gets used only once.
Too bad he died so young.