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'm a trained Co-Active coach, and 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 hosted on Hugging Face
  • Take the Big Five assessment using this model
• 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.
  • Processed ~11,000 semi-structured government documents
  • Introduced Pydantic and Instructor to manage structured LLM outputs from irregular like documents
  • Built web admin UI for pipeline status reporting and extraction completeness
• Kopi: Mac OS clipboard manager built with Rust and GPUI
• Federal Workbench: A Build Canada bilingual AI/RAG application for querying and understanding Canadian Federal Parliament and Legislation data
  • View Legislation and Bills inline
  • Open source on GitHub
• 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