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Rod Christiansen

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Updated 12 October 2026 · Vancouver, Canada · What is a now page?

Architecting cloud infrastructure end to end, from the systems and the pipelines that connect them to the dashboards people make decisions on, and building native apps for Mac, Windows and iOS.

  • Integration

    Connecting systems so a change made in one place reaches everywhere it needs to.

  • Data pipelines

    Building a data lake and the functions that ingest, transform and serve its data.

  • Dashboards

    Turning that data into dashboards stakeholders make decisions on.

  • Infrastructure as code

    Every piece defined as code and shipped through reviewed CI/CD, with agentic workflows built in.

  • Identity

    Secretless by design, built on federated identity and single sign-on.

  • Native apps

    Building apps for Mac, Windows and iOS, and writing about how they're made.

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Sep
11

How to Stop Claude Opus 5 From Writing Walls of Text

Telling Opus 5 to 'be concise' doesn't stick. Give it a report shape, put that shape in CLAUDE.md, and re-inject it on every prompt with a hook. Here's the …
Jul
14

Running asbmutil in Ubuntu CI to Drive Apple School & Business Manager

asbmutil is a Swift CLI for macOS — but the release build is a static Linux binary, so I run it headless in an Ubuntu CI job to talk to Apple School and …
Apr
13

ASBMUtil app

The Swift CLI for Apple School & Business Manager API now has a native SwiftUI app. Same credentials store, same API client, same bulk operations — inside a …
Jun
12

Modern Munki DevOps

How we transformed our Munki workflow into a DevOps-native system using Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Azure. Companion post to my MacDevOps YVR 2025 talk.
Jun
10

Passwordless Git SSO with Git Credential Manager

End the PAT era—step‑by‑step macOS and Windows guide to enable SSO for Azure DevOps and GitHub using Git Credential Manager.

Work

  1. Infrastructure Solutions Architect Emily Carr University of Art + Design

    Architecting a university's cloud infrastructure, with integration between systems at the core, and building the data lake and pipelines that feed its systems and reports.

    Since Aug 2026
  2. Systems & Solutions Architect Syndeavors

    Architecting the company's systems around Salesforce: the client and staff portals, the integrations around them, and the dashboards the team decides on.

    Since Jul 2026
  3. Independent Developer Focused Systems

    Building native apps for Mac, Windows and iOS, and writing at the blog.

    Since Mar 2024