DDevante Vargas
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Open to AI engineering roles

I build AI agents that do the unglamorous work.

For 25 years I've kept Citrix and virtual desktops running for banks, insurers and hospitals. Now I build with Claude and Microsoft Copilot: agents, agent teams, apps, and automation that has to work on a Monday morning.

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Black and white portrait of Devante Vargas
Roaming Europe · remote EU & US
+25+
years running Citrix and virtual desktop estates
K110,000
users on the world's second-largest VDI estate
hrs2 hours
a month on Citrix image updates, down from 52, after the pipeline I built
Stack

Two AI ecosystems. One builder.

Most teams run one, pilot the other, and need someone who understands the desktops, identities and workflows underneath both.

Anthropic01
Claude
Desktop · Code · Design
Extended with
SkillsMCP serversCLI toolsConnectorsPluginsMods

Multi-agent Claude Code teams that split design, front end, data and QA, with Supabase, Vercel and Playwright wired in over MCP and every change checked on a preview deploy.

Microsoft02
Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot · Copilot Studio
Extended with
M365 integrationsMCP serversSkillsAgentsSub-agents

Copilot Studio agents grounded in IT knowledge and actions, rolled out on the Citrix, AVD and Windows 365 desktops I already engineer, with Azure DevOps, branded custom-built DevOps alternatives and Azure Key Vault underneath for added security.

I build
Agents & agent teams
One agent, or a lead agent directing sub-agents
I build
Apps & websites
Native iOS/Android to motion-led web, verified by agents
I build
Automation
Pipelines, alert triage and IT workflows that run unattended
Work

Enterprise automation, and the apps I build alongside it.

Insentra · enterprise clients

Citrix image pipelines

Golden images for Citrix PVS and MCS used to be patched by hand, client by client. I rebuilt the process as scheduled Azure DevOps pipelines: Windows and browser updates, BIS-F sealing and a QA hand-off, with each client isolated in its own variable groups and Key Vault.

Alongside the pipelines I built a web dashboard for image automation, packaged as a company-branded Windows installer: real-time views of every build, reporting, and scheduling, so engineers run and track image updates without opening Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOpsKey VaultPowerShellPowerCLIBIS-FWeb dashboardWindows installer
image-updateper client · scheduled
  1. 1Windows updates
  2. 2Browser updates
  3. 3Seal with BIS-F
  4. 4Assign to QA
Human time / month h2 hours, down from 52
Image automation dashboardBranded Windows installer
Run, watch and schedule every image build.
Live view
Real-time status of each build and stage
Reporting
History and results per client
Scheduling
Plan update windows per client
Independent build · native iOS

Shanghan Lun 傷寒論

A clinical companion for the Shang Han Lun, the Han-dynasty treatise at the root of classical Chinese herbal medicine. A guided intake leads a practitioner from symptoms to the formulas the text prescribes.

Shanghan Lun home screen with intake, formulas, history, symptoms and seasonal context Intake session, question 1 of 10: Hot and Cold symptom categories Formula detail for Xiao Jian Zhong Tang with its Emperor, Minister, Assistant and Envoy diagram Seasonal context: the Cold Dew solar term, Fire Horse year and Five Elements
辨
Guided intake. Ten questions narrow 42 symptoms to matching formulas.
方
113 formulas, each mapped by Emperor, Minister, Assistant and Envoy.
症
Symptom reference with pinyin, characters and session history.
時
Seasonal context: solar term, zodiac year and Five Elements.
Client build · native iOS

HAUS Salon

The client app for a three-location Minneapolis salon offering hair, colour and medspa treatments. Built natively in Swift on the Boulevard platform's GraphQL API, so bookings, artists and services stay in sync with the salon's own systems.

Services catalogue for Hair, MedSpa and Spa with durations, prices and Book Now buttons Locations: a map of three Minneapolis salons with call, map and details buttons Navigation menu: Home, Book, Locations, Artists, Services, Gallery, Contact Us, Account Client account with personal details and email or text preferences
Booking
Hair, MedSpa and Spa, with durations and starting prices
Locations
Live map with one-tap call, directions and hours
Account
Preferences, memberships, loyalty and saved cards
Built with
Swift, Apollo iOS, GraphQL, MapKit
Founder · in stealth

Personal project

A consumer platform I'm founding and building end to end: a web SaaS application plus native iOS and Android apps, designed, built and tested with a Claude Code agent team. Details follow at launch.

Insentra · RMM

Alert-to-ticket monitoring

Tuning Kaseya VSA monitor sets and the procedures that turn alarms into Freshservice tickets, so engineers see fewer, better alerts. The same triage logic I now design into agents.

Method

An ops engineer's discipline, applied to AI.

Running many client environments at once teaches you that nothing ships until it has been tested, verified and piloted. Every agent build goes through the same six stages.

01
Frame the job

Outcome, constraints and acceptance checks, before any agent touches code.

02
Assemble and build

Specialist agents with only the MCP tools they need, tests written alongside.

03
Test and QA

Unit, integration and regression tests, agent evals, security and code review.

04
Verify against reality

Real browsers and real data. Judgment calls go to a person.

05
Pilot

One client or a small group first, then a go or no-go call.

06
Ship and observe

Staged rollout in rings, monitored, with a tested rollback.

Experience

Where the work happens.

Now
Senior EUC Consultant / Engineer
Insentra Group

Managed services across multiple enterprise clients. Citrix (PVS, MCS), ControlUp, Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365, with Azure DevOps pipeline automation, VMware PowerCLI, enterprise PowerShell, Packer, Chocolatey, Power Automate, webhooks and a custom-developed .NET workflow application package.

Now
Founder & builder
Personal project

Pre-launch venture: a web SaaS platform with iOS and Android apps. Leading product, design and engineering with a Claude Code agent team.

Ongoing
Independent app developer
Shanghan Lun · HAUS Salon

Native iOS/Android and AI-assisted apps for specialist audiences, from classical Chinese medicine study to salon booking.

AI
Claude Code, MCP, Claude skills, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio
Microsoft & EUC
Citrix PVS · MCS · FAS, ControlUp, AVD, Windows 365, Azure DevOps, Key Vault
Automation
PowerShell, PowerCLI, Packer, Chocolatey, Kaseya VSA
Product
Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, Vercel, Swift, GraphQL
Contact

Let's build the next one.

An agent team, a Copilot rollout or a stubborn Citrix estate: I'd like to hear what you're building.

Looking for: AI engineering · solutions · enablement
Devante Vargas smiling on a bridge in Minneapolis