About

I'm Michael Bishop, the person behind Web Janitor Consulting. I build data pipelines and interactive tools from public records to make local government more transparent, and I build web systems for organizations that need reliable, maintainable technology.

My current project is Tampa Monitor, a civic transparency initiative covering Tampa and Hillsborough County. That work includes automated meeting transparency for city council proceedings, precinct-level election maps, development application tracking, and an events feed that the City of Tampa's own technology staff contributed back to. It's all open source.

I use GitHub Copilot and Claude daily—not just for writing code, but for architectural planning and building custom AI agents that guide development workflows. I can help organizations adopt these tools in a way that's practical and grounded, not theoretical.

Before civic data, I spent fifteen years in WordPress development—managing hundreds of sites on Multisite, building custom plugins against third-party APIs, and optimizing high-traffic e-commerce sites. Before that, I was an executive chef. The throughline is systems thinking, whether it's a kitchen, a data pipeline, or a website.

I'm an open web advocate and IndieWeb contributor. I was invited to speak at GitHub Connect 2019 about disaster response mapping work I did with Code for America, FEMA, and the Red Cross after Hurricane Irma.

Based in Tampa. Open to civic tech, nonprofit, government, and small organization consulting.