Shawn Price

I'm an agentic engineer and technical founder with nearly two decades of experience building open source software and startups.

I build production ML pipelines, LLM extraction systems, and AI-powered web applications.

I live in Vancouver, Canada with my wife and son.

• Co-founder at Centerline
• Volunteer Product Builder with Build Canada

BFFM-XGB

XGBoost ML model pipeline for Big Five personality scoring from sparse IPIP-BFFM responses.

Public Domain models are hosted on Hugging Face.

Take the assessment and share your results or chat about them with your favourite LLM.

Whisp

Create, discover, test and share LLM prompts.

Canada Spends

Collaborated with the Head of Engineering at Build Canada to create a PDF/LLM extraction pipeline that processed roughly 11,000 semi-structured government documents, using Pydantic and Instructor to manage structured LLM outputs from irregular documents.

Kopi

Mac OS clipboard manager built with Rust and GPUI.

Federal Workbench

I built this bilingual AI/RAG chat application as a Build Canada project. It queries and understands Canadian Federal Parliament and Legislation data, with inline viewing of Legislation and Bills. Open source on GitHub.

• Trained Co-Active coach
• Placed in the top 4% of the 8090 Top Coder Challenge

Quotes that have shaped my thinking

Incentives matter

— Tyler Cowen

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit

— Helen Keller

Most people overestimate risk and underestimate reward

— Sam Altman

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy

— Warren Buffett

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

— U.S. Navy SEALs

Anything not forbidden by the laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge

— David Deutsch

The mimetic nature of desire accounts for the fragility of human relations

— René Girard

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

— Alan Kay

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship

— David Foster Wallace

You can go to shawarma plus by yourself and it can be so sad, but if you go with the right people, it can be life changing

— internetvin

Hell is meeting the best version that you could have become of your life

— Tobi Lütke

You can be the master of your fate, you [can] be the captain of your soul, but you have to realize that life is coming from you, not at you, and that takes time

— Timothée Chalamet