Monroe Weber-shirk
Technical Director at AguaClara Reach
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMonroe Weber-shirk is a technical director and water infrastructure innovator with nearly two decades of leadership in designing sustainable, gravity-powered municipal drinking water treatment systems. As Technical Director and Board Member at AguaClara Reach and former Director of AguaClara at Cornell, he has guided multidisciplinary research teams to create affordable, reliable solutions that prioritize on-tap safety for underserved communities. He combines a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with hands-on invention and systems design, focusing on generalizable technologies that scale across diverse contexts. Based in Ithaca, NY, Monroe is known for translating academic research into deployable tools and empowering partners worldwide to operate low-cost, maintainable water systems. An unexpected strength is his emphasis on simplicity—leveraging gravity and clever design to reduce operational complexity and increase long-term sustainability.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Physics at Goshen CollegePh.D., Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., Environmental Engineering at Cornell University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
textbook10
python9
fiddle8
x-plane8
github-desktop8
qbcore-framework8
capstone8
cubing8
environmental8
atom-editor8
git7
assetbundle7
power-management7
data-exchange7
haiku7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MWSteams/4590FSP
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Fairmont Sedimentation Plant Capstone Design
Contributions:80 commits, 7 PRs, 75 pushes in 2 months
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monroews/EnvEngLabTextbook
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
Laboratory Research in Environmental Engineering Textbook
Contributions:48 releases, 112 PRs, 164 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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