Ryan Laughlin (b. 1991) is a developer and designer based in New Haven, CT. He is in his third year at Yale University, working towards a major in Computer Science and doing various kinds of design work and web development on the side. In the fall of 2009 he took a middle-of-college gap year to move to Seattle, where he took a number of freelance web jobs while pursuing some personal projects in music, art, and creative writing. He performs as The Bare Minimum, a one-man musical group, and used to sing and beatbox with Out of the Blue, a co-ed pop-rock a cappella group at Yale.