Rob Young
Founder at World Mgmt Group
West New York, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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RockstarRob Young is a founder and CEO with 14 years of experience at the intersection of culture, storytelling, and strategic brand impact, leading World Management Group to help Fortune 500s, foundations, and movements connect with Millennial, Gen Z, and Alpha audiences. His career roots in record labels, talent management, and A&R inform a rare blend of entertainment industry instincts and data-driven campaign execution that has driven national voter engagement and public health storytelling with partners like the NBA and NFLPA. He also co-founded DreamPlanet to scale original content and branded entertainment using studio-level production capabilities. Based in West New York, NJ, Rob combines relationship-driven dealmaking and talent strategy with hands-on creative leadership, often operating behind the scenes to make cultural moments resonate. An unexpected detail: he contributes to open-source tooling in his spare time, including meaningful back-end work on the widely used Rust chrono date/time library.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
datetime10
date-format10
dates10
rust10
testing9
get-time7
calendars7
timeago7
timed7
timespan7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
chronotope/chrono
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Date and time library for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `chrono` crate, a date and time library for Rust. Their work included implementing new features like rounding and truncation of `DateTime` objects by durations, as well as adding `MIN` and `MAX` constants for `DateTime`, `NaiveDateTime`, and `NaiveTime`. They also refactored the code to add an iterator for `NaiveDate` and addressed linting issues.
datetimecalendartimeagorustinterval
robyoung/glow
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
A hacky, connected Rasperry Pi alternative to the Groegg.
Contributions:137 commits, 8 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 3 months
raspberry-pihackyconnected
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