Summary
Irucka Embry is a Principal with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience blending R data science, environmental engineering, and small-business leadership. He develops and maintains CRAN R packages, writes unit tests, and automates complex data munging and visualization pipelines for diverse datasets stored in Excel, MariaDB/MySQL, and text formats. Irucka has applied his technical skills to public-sector environmental permitting and transportation projects, created coordinate-conversion tools, and taught engineering and programming courses to prepare students for the FE exam. As co-steward of EcoC²S, he restores farmland using agroecological and permaculture methods, pairing hands-on ecological practice with data-driven insights. Comfortable moving between code, classroom, regulatory frameworks, and the farm, he brings a rare combination of pragmatic engineering, reproducible data work, and ecological entrepreneurship.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Engineering Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering, Masters in Engineering Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering at Tennessee State University
Bachelor of Science - BS Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Civil Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville