Rod Christiansen

Rod Christiansen

Infrastructure Solutions Architect · Vancouver, Canada

Architecting cloud infrastructure end to end, from the systems and the pipelines that connect them to the dashboards stakeholders make decisions on.

Embedding agentic workflows from the foundation, with every piece defined as code and shipped through reviewed CI/CD pipelines, so changes move fast, at scale and securely. Secretless by design, built on federated identity and single sign-on.

Building native apps for Mac, Windows and iOS.

What I'm doing now

Latest writing

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 …