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Thanks for visiting Focused Systems!

My name is Rod Christiansen. I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Where the sockeye salmon is abundant, people are friendly, the sea breeze is fresh, and the climate can be overcast.

An overall enthusiastic geek that is always focused on automating menial tasks and removing bottlenecks using intelligence tools to get things done faster and at scale.

I manage a fleet of 1000+ computers at Emily Carr U where I get to work on our infrastructure and architect our DevOps workflows, repos, and CI/CD pipelines.

If I am not in my home office where I spend most of my day, you can probably find me biking around the city. I care about health, design, photography, writing, art, philosophy, and connecting with awesome people. I seek to be inspired, to envision the unlikely, to work hard for things that are worth it, and to be surrounded by those who bring out the best in me.

Connect with me on social over at Mastodon or Bluesky.

Writing happens on a Mac in iA Writer. Hosted on Ghost(Pro).

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Essential apps:

MarkEdit
Visual Studio Code
BBEdit
Tower
Slack
Music
Pixelmator
iA Writer
Keynote
Terminal