Robert Young
Senior Consultant For Gerontology at Guinness World Records
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Young is a senior gerontology consultant and researcher with over two decades of hands-on experience validating supercentenarian claims and maintaining the world’s leading longevity databases. As Senior Consultant for Gerontology at Guinness World Records since 2005 and Senior Claims Researcher (and Director of Supercentenarian Research) at the Gerontology Research Group, he has built the methodology and curated the World Supercentenarian Rankings used as the global standard. He combines rigorous historical research (MA in History) with gerontological training (MA in Gerontology) and long-term collaborations with institutions like the Max Planck Institute and the Social Security Administration to cross-validate extreme-age records. Author of a book on African American longevity and contributor to Springer’s Supercentenarians monograph, he brings both scholarly publication and practical investigative experience to longevity verification. An Atlanta-based data-minded practitioner who also dabbles in open-source health tech, he quietly runs the GRG’s database infrastructure and correspondence network that underpins global longevity research.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., History (World History concentration), M.A., History (World History concentration) at Georgia State University
Github Skills (26)
webservice10
podcast10
django9
rest-api9
python8
classify7
csv6
php6
parse6
fast-csv6
symfony6
cli5
parser5
blaze4
laravel4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryoung29/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:193 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
ryoung29/my-scripts
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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