I like building the useful thing.
The work I am happiest about lives at the intersection of product judgment, web development, automation, database thinking, and the communication needed to make the right thing obvious.
I build useful software, websites, and media with taste, speed, and staying power.
I am Clay Bitner: Edmonton-based software developer, pastor, filmmaker, coffee enthusiast, and founder of Digital Indoorsmen. This is my durable brag document: a place to keep track of work I am thankful to have been part of, inspired by the Mostly Technical idea that a good personal site should give people real things to explore.
Useful work, not just a resume.
The Mostly Technical takeaway was simple: links beat a flat resume. A good brag document should make it easy to see how a person thinks, builds, communicates, and ships without pretending any of it happened alone.
I use AI as leverage.
This page exists because durable artifacts are better than vague claims. I use AI-assisted workflows to prototype, write, refactor, test, and improve the work without giving up ownership of taste or judgment.
I value calm human context.
Pastoral work, parenting, filmmaking, and client work have all trained the same muscle: listen carefully, understand what matters, tell the truth, and move the work forward.
What I am good at.
Digital Indoorsmen describes the work plainly: apps, websites, and corporate video that streamline operations and improve reputation. My background adds the connective tissue between those disciplines.
Web apps, websites, internal systems, and database-backed tools
I am useful when a business has a messy process, an unclear workflow, or a website that needs to become more than a brochure. I especially enjoy building with Laravel, Vue.js, and modern frameworks, while still being comfortable opening up an old legacy PHP repo and making careful, practical progress.
Project management, consulting, and translation between teams
I can sit with owners, staff, creatives, and developers and turn scattered needs into a practical sequence of work.
Video, story, brand, and communication
Because I have worked in software and media for more than 25 years, I care about both the system behind the screen and the message people actually receive.
Leadership shaped by church, family, and client trust
I am comfortable with responsibility, ambiguity, constraints, and people who are counting on the work to matter.
Experience.
A work history that mixes hands-on development, team leadership, ministry operations, media production, and long-running client trust. The public LinkedIn profile gives the broad outline; the attached resume supplies the detail and dates.
Co-Founder
Digital Indoorsmen Inc, Edmonton, AB
Freelance management, full-stack development, UX design, system administration, and development team coaching for organizations that need practical digital systems, not just prettier screens.
Assessment Director
Acts 29 Canada, Edmonton, AB
Coaching, leadership development, theological assessment, administration, event planning, podcast production, and hosting across a national ministry context.
Executive Director
Grace Fellowship, Saskatoon, SK
Marketing, branding, pastoral leadership, coaching, filming, video editing, sound design, graphic design, website development, finance, and administration.
Developer / Manager
Beagle Productions, Saskatoon, SK
Built web applications for the health and wellness industry, designed databases, maintained networks and servers, developed CMS tools, produced video and design work, and managed projects and teams through collaborative agile development.
Developer
CCD Systems, Edmonton, AB
Started professionally in web application development for health and corporate management, with website maintenance, database design, server administration, and graphic design in the mix from the beginning.
Good fits.
I am especially interested in work where a thoughtful builder can improve the actual operating reality of a team, not just decorate the surface.
Small teams that need senior judgment
- Founder-led businesses
- Churches and nonprofits
- Agencies with technical gaps
- Teams modernizing old workflows
Problems I like
- Making a manual process dependable
- Turning a fuzzy idea into a shipped web product
- Improving a site so it actually earns trust
- Using AI practically instead of theatrically
How I work
- Direct communication
- Useful prototypes early
- Clear tradeoffs
- Durable, maintainable output
Start clicking around.
A persistent brag document is a surface-area expansion project: one place to understand the person, then enough links to keep following the thread.
Have something worth building?
Send the context, the constraints, and what success would look like. I am open to thoughtful software, web, media, consulting, and AI-assisted product work.