Connor Fanning

I build reliable systems across Citrix, infrastructure, and the operational processes that keep them running well.

I’m strongest where systems meet day-to-day operations: virtual desktops, Windows builds, PowerShell automation, service reliability, and the process work that keeps teams moving. I like turning fragile manual steps into repeatable systems, then refining them until support gets quieter, delivery gets faster, and handover is simpler.

Citrix Virtualisation PowerShell Automation Process Design

Strengths

The common thread is systems thinking. I’m usually at my best when there’s a technical platform, an opportunity to improve the workflow around it, and too much manual effort getting in the way.

Citrix & Windows Platform Work

Building and shaping environments that are actually supportable, not just technically “working”.

Virtualisation & Infrastructure

Running, migrating, and stabilising workloads across VMs, containers, and service stacks.

PowerShell & Scripting

Useful automation for real operators: installers, health checks, telemetry collection, and background jobs.

Process Building

Turning tribal knowledge and hand-run steps into repeatable workflows people can trust.

How I Work

I care about systems that are practical, supportable, and resilient under pressure. Good tooling should reduce support noise, shorten recovery time, and remove one-off steps that make environments harder to operate.

Selected Work

A few examples pulled from the kinds of systems I actually spend time building and improving.

Citrix / Automation

Windows 11 + Citrix VDA image build pipeline

Built a Packer-driven Windows 11 Enterprise image workflow with Citrix VDA, domain join, optimiser steps, cleanup, and support for both Azure and VMware targets. The point wasn’t just image creation, but making the build predictable and reusable.

PowerShell / Operations

Remote monitoring for Windows-based booth fleets

Built a PowerShell agent that runs on Windows machines, polls device and printer telemetry, and feeds a central dashboard with alerts, heartbeat status, paper levels, faults, and history. It’s the kind of tooling that cuts guesswork out of support.

Infrastructure / Virtualisation

Service migrations, container hosting, and platform cleanup

Regularly work across Proxmox, Docker hosts, and application stacks to move services cleanly, fix brittle deployments, and make the environment easier to reason about. Less heroics, more stable systems.

Automation / Process

Internal tools, dashboards, and background jobs

I build the smaller glue pieces too: dashboards, watchers, alert flows, support-oriented utilities, and maintenance scripts that make day-to-day operations smoother instead of relying on memory and luck.