Michael Morisy
Co-Founder at MuckRock Foundation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Morisy is the co-founder and executive director of MuckRock, a non-profit platform that uses public records and journalism to advance government transparency, a mission he has pursued for over a decade. Based in Philadelphia, he blends editorial leadership with product-minded digital publishing experience, having led newsrooms and content teams at The Boston Globe, Penton, and TechTarget. A Stanford Knight Journalism Fellow and Cornell English graduate, he pairs investigative rigor with a practical understanding of web tools and community-driven reporting. He describes himself wryly as a "terrible programmer," yet has built and stewarded a tech-forward transparency organization that relies on engineering to scale public records requests. Michael’s background shows a pattern of building institutions—news projects, nonprofit platforms, and collaborative reporting networks—that make civic data more accessible and usable. He brings entrepreneurial persistence, newsroom instincts, and a knack for turning dense public records into actionable stories.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters at Cornell UniversityStanford University
Stackoverflow
2,505reputation
229kreached
3answers
19questions
github
top-5%
Github Skills (39)
django10
github9
python9
viewer9
api8
manager8
accessibility7
security7
nlp6
datetime-format6
django-forms6
drupal6
ssh-keys6
analytics6
git6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
morisy/documentcloud-gpt3-playpen
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
An experiment with using GPT-3 to help analyze, categorize and structure documents.
Contributions:161 commits, 1 PR, 111 pushes in 7 months
nlpmachine-learninggpt-3natural-language-processinganalyze
morisy/morisy.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2020
My Blog
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
my-blogjekyll
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.