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Building Intelligent Systems That Matter

Company-wide GenAI technical lead at Bio-Techne โ€” architecting and shipping multi-agent systems, DSPy-optimized RAG pipelines, and evaluation frameworks used by 300+ people weekly. Databricks AI Days speaker. Building AI that actually gets deployed.

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The Story Behind the Code

Ilyas - AI Engineer

I architect, ship, and own GenAI systems in production โ€” not demos, not POCs, but infrastructure that hundreds of people rely on daily.

As company-wide GenAI technical lead at Bio-Techne, I own the full stack: architecture, deployment, governance, and operations of AI systems used by 300+ people every week. From multi-agent orchestration to LLM evaluation frameworks that catch hallucinations before they ship.

My approach? Start small, iterate fast, ship to production. The engineering patterns โ€” multi-agent orchestration, RAG at scale, LLM evaluation โ€” apply across any industry. The life sciences context is where I've sharpened them, not where they're limited.

First-Author Publication โ€” Springer CCIS Educational text analytics using LDA and PyLDAvis ยท University of St. Thomas
Multi-Agent Systems LangGraph, AutoGen, Complex Orchestration
Production ML From POC to Deployment at Scale
Life Sciences Domain Deep domain expertise โ€” transferable to any data-intensive industry
Technical Leadership Cross-team AI strategy, Copilot agent optimization & deployment

Experience

Data Scientist May 2024 โ€“ Present
Bio-Techne ยท Minneapolis, MN

Company-wide GenAI technical lead. Shipped 8 production AI systems across multi-agent, RAG, and ML. 300+ weekly active users, 85% support deflection rate. Databricks AI Days speaker (300 attendees). Mentored 3 GenAI engineering interns.

Data Scientist Intern May 2023 โ€“ May 2024
Bio-Techne ยท Minneapolis, MN

Built and deployed a graph-based product recommendation system (20% CTR in A/B testing) and a text classification model that reduced misrouted Salesforce cases by 90%.

M.S. IT & AI ยท M.S. Data Science 2019 โ€“ 2025
University of St. Thomas ยท Saint Paul, MN

Dual master's degrees in AI and Data Science. First-author publication in Springer CCIS. Keen Scholarship recipient.

Databricks AI Days, Minneapolis

Invited to speak on building and deploying multi-agent GenAI in life sciences โ€” taking agentic systems from prototype to production on Databricks.

Ilyas Hassan presenting on stage at Databricks AI Days in Minneapolis
Presenting to a packed room at the Databricks AI Days Minneapolis stop.
AI Days ยท Minneapolis

Multi-Agent Sales Intelligence Platform

I walked through how my team at Bio-Techne built and shipped an orchestrated multi-agent system โ€” combining web research, transaction analysis, and marketing intelligence on Databricks to surface untapped product opportunities for the sales organization.

  • Orchestrating specialized agents with LangGraph
  • Grounding agents in enterprise data with RAG at scale
  • Taking agentic AI from prototype to production
The audience at Databricks AI Days Minneapolis during Ilyas Hassan's session
A full house at Databricks AI Days.

Projects That Pushed Boundaries

A curated selection of AI systems I've architected and deployed

RAG System 2025

Technical Service Agent

Production RAG for Support Teams

A production multi-agent retrieval system searching Salesforce cases and an Egnyte knowledge base. Migrated to DSPy with MIPROv2 prompt optimization and CRAG for corrective retrieval. LLM-as-judge evaluates both retrieval accuracy and answer quality before responses ship.

2+ hours โ†’ 2 minutes ยท 85% deflection rate across 20 specialists
DSPy MIPROv2 CRAG LLM-as-Judge MS Teams
Agentic Automation 2025

Questionnaire Automation

Customer Service Response Engine

An agentic system that drafts answers to lengthy customer questionnaires by retrieving from product documentation and prior responses โ€” turning a manual, multi-day task into a same-day workflow for the customer service team.

Up to a week โ†’ within a day to complete questionnaires
Multi-Agent RAG Azure OpenAI Databricks
Data Engineering 2025

CoA Data Pipeline

Million-Scale PDF Processing

Template-based extraction system processing ~1M Certificate of Analysis PDFs with high accuracy. Automated data validation and structured output for downstream analytics.

Python PDF Parsing Databricks Delta Lake
Machine Learning 2025

Antibody Pair Prediction

Semi-Supervised Learning Pipeline

Teacher-student learning model with XGBoost to predict optimal capture-detect antibody pairs. Leveraging SPR data from Carterra and Ella immunoassay platforms for training.

XGBoost Semi-Supervised Carterra SPR scikit-learn
Infrastructure 2024

Enterprise ChatGPT

Internal AI Platform with LibreChat

Deployed LibreChat as an internal ChatGPT alternative, providing secure AI assistance across the organization with custom integrations and enterprise authentication.

LibreChat Docker Azure SSO
Self-Serve RAG 2025

Self-Serve Q&A Agent

Customer Care Intelligence Platform

Ingests customer questionnaires, extracts each question, retrieves answers from the vector index, and highlights the exact source passage using PDF coordinates โ€” building trust by showing provenance for every answer. When the knowledge base has gaps, users upload new sources that trigger an automated ingestion and embedding pipeline, making the system self-healing.

Days โ†’ hours ยท answers with verifiable source citations
DSPy Vector Search PDF Coordinates Databricks
Graph RAG 2025

Graph Retrieval System

Knowledge-Graph-Powered Wiki Search

Built a graph-based retrieval layer for Bio-Techne's internal wiki, where pages cross-reference each other. A flat vector index would miss those connections and be prohibitively expensive to maintain. The graph structure traverses references at query time, surfacing multi-hop answers that dense retrieval alone cannot reach โ€” now powering one of the Technical Service Agent's core retrievers.

Knowledge Graphs Graph RAG Databricks Python
Graph ML 2023

Graph Recommendation Engine

Network-Based Product Discovery

Graph-based recommendation pipeline leveraging product relationships and customer behavior patterns to surface relevant suggestions with explainable reasoning.

Neo4j Graph Neural Networks Python NetworkX

Technical Arsenal

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AI & Machine Learning

DSPy LangGraph RAG Systems Multi-Agent Systems MIPROv2 CRAG Knowledge Graphs LLM-as-Judge XGBoost

Data Engineering

Databricks SQL Delta Lake Unity Catalog Spark ETL Pipelines Data Modeling

Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure OpenAI Azure Docker MLflow CI/CD

Programming

Python SQL JavaScript Git REST APIs

Life Sciences Domain

Biotechnology Antibody Development Life Sciences Protein Engineering Immunoassays

Tools & Platforms

Salesforce Egnyte MS Teams LibreChat Slack
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