Jason Haley

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Introducing Agentic RAG Python Sample - IT Support Ticket Search

Introducing Agentic RAG Python Sample – IT Support Ticket Search A Python sample demonstrating how to build an agentic, multi-agent RAG system using Microsoft’s Agent Framework I finally finished up the code for the Agentic RAG sample that has been a long time in the making … it will answer all the question types I’ve been after for awhile now: These were inspired by the https://github.com/amazon-science/mintaka project that I discovered a long time ago. The final project is a real-world, practical example of an Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application built in Python using Microsoft’s Agent Framework. If you’ve been curious about what agentic RAG actually looks like in code — not just diagrams and theory — this repo is meant to be a hands-on starting point. …

Posted by Jason on Sunday, February 1, 2026

Hands-on Agent Framework Workshop Jan 2026

Yesterday Bill Wilder, Udai Ramachandran and I held the first In-person, hands-on, all-day, free. Agent Framework Dev Day in BURLINGTON MA for the year. This year, we targeted both .NET and python developers (last year we only focused on .NET). My presentation and labs focused on implementing Agentic RAG with Agent Framework. Talk: Agentic RAG NOTE: The repository has moved to the new Agent Framework Dev Day github. About the Lab This year I tried to stay away from the instructional labs that just turns into a treasure hunt, copy paste set of instructions … though not completely. This year I created notebooks to cover the fundamentals, then a hands on exercise that had some instructions and excercises - plus the solution to the exercises. Notebooks: The Ingestion Phase (.NET) …

Posted by Jason on Saturday, January 17, 2026

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Jason is an experienced developer and solutions architect focused on helping companies provide real business value with custom software development using the Microsoft stack of technologies. This includes C#, .NET, Azure and AI services. In 2024, Jason was awarded a Microsoft MVP in AI - highlighting his latest focus on AI and specifically Generative AI technologies in real world business applications. The prior seven years, he was a Microsoft Azure MVP.

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