# Shawn Price

> Agentic engineer, technical founder, and coach based in Vancouver, Canada. Builds production ML pipelines, LLM extraction systems, and AI-powered web applications. Help individuals and teams build fluency with AI tools.

Shawn Price has 20+ years of experience building open source software and startups. He is co-founder of [Centerline](https://centerline.work) and a volunteer product builder with [Build Canada](https://buildcanada.com). He is a trained [Co-Active](https://coactive.com) coach and placed top 20 out of ~500 in the [8090 Top Coder Challenge](https://x.com/chamath/status/1931395477217660944).

Shawn is currently looking for his next full-time role as a Software/Agentic Engineer. See [/hire-me.md](https://shawnprice.com/hire-me.md) for details.

All pages on this site are available as clean markdown by appending `.md` to the URL. For example, [/home.md](https://shawnprice.com/home.md) returns the homepage as markdown, and [/blog.md](https://shawnprice.com/blog.md) returns the blog index. This works for all blog routes including filtered views like `/blog/2025.md` or `/blog/2025/03.md`.

## Projects

- [BFFM-XGB](https://github.com/sprice/bffm-xgb): XGBoost ML model pipeline for Big Five personality scoring from sparse IPIP-BFFM responses. Public Domain models on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/shawnprice/bffm-xgb). [Take the assessment](https://big5.shawnprice.com/).
- [Whisp](https://usewhisp.com): Create, discover, test and share LLM prompts.
- [Canada Spends](https://canadaspends.com/en): PDF/LLM extraction pipeline that processed ~11,000 semi-structured government documents using Pydantic and Instructor.
- [Kopi](https://github.com/sprice/kopi): Mac OS clipboard manager built with Rust and GPUI.
- [Federal Workbench](https://workbench.buildcanada.com): Bilingual AI/RAG chat application for Canadian Federal Parliament and Legislation data. [Source](https://github.com/sprice/federal-workbench).

## Blog

- [Cognitive Security](https://shawnprice.com/blog/2026/04/01/cognitive-security.md)
- [The Friction](https://shawnprice.com/blog/2026/03/10/the-friction.md)
- [Agentic Engineering](https://shawnprice.com/blog/2026/03/09/agentic-engineering.md)
- [Tobi's Memo: AI usage is now a baseline expectation](https://shawnprice.com/blog/2025/04/07/ai-at-shopify.md)
- [Prompting Like An Expert: Cognitive Behaviors That Matter](https://shawnprice.com/blog/2025/03/08/prompting-like-an-expert.md)
- [Hello World (again)](https://shawnprice.com/blog/2025/02/25/first.md)