diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_packages.yml b/.github/workflows/build_packages.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44a637f8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_packages.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+# Copyright 2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+# See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+
+name: Build packages
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    # Runs at 11:00 AM UTC, which is 3:00 AM PST (UTC-8)
+    - cron: '0 11 * * *'
+
+jobs:
+  # Note: metadata generation could happen in a separate trigger/schedule
+  # workflow. For cross platform builds, it's useful to just generate the
+  # metadata on Linux and pass that to later jobs using artifacts.
+  setup_metadata:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    outputs:
+      shark_package_version: ${{ steps.version.outputs.shark_package_version }}
+    steps:
+      # For now the version is just a calendar date + an automatically
+      # incrementing value. We may want different versions for nightly/dev
+      # builds and stable releases published to official places like pypi.
+      - name: Compute version
+        id: version
+        run: |
+          shark_package_version="$(printf '%(%Y%m%d)T.${{ github.run_number }}')"
+          echo "shark_package_version=${shark_package_version}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          cat << EOF > ./version_info.json
+          {
+            "package-version": "${shark_package_version}"
+          }
+          EOF
+          cat ./version_info.json
+      - name: Upload version_info.json
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@50769540e7f4bd5e21e526ee35c689e35e0d6874 # v4.4.0
+        with:
+          name: version_info
+          path: version_info.json
+
+  build_packages:
+    name: "${{ matrix.package }} :: ${{ matrix.platform }} :: ${{ matrix.python-version }}"
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
+    needs: [setup_metadata]
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          # Ubuntu packages.
+          - runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+            platform: linux-x86_64
+            package: shortfin
+            python-version: cp312-cp312
+          - runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+            platform: linux-x86_64
+            package: shortfin
+            python-version: cp313-cp313
+          - runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+            platform: linux-x86_64
+            package: shortfin
+            python-version: cp313-cp313t
+
+          # TODO(#130): macOS platform
+          # TODO(#130): Windows platform
+          # TODO(#130): sharktank packages
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332 # v4.1.7
+      with:
+        path: "c" # Windows can hit path length limits, so use a short path.
+        submodules: false
+
+    - name: Download version_info.json
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@fa0a91b85d4f404e444e00e005971372dc801d16 # v4.1.8
+      with:
+        name: version_info
+        path: ./c/shortfin/
+        merge-multiple: true
+
+    - name: Build shortfin (Linux x86_64, ${{ matrix.python-version }})
+      if: "matrix.package == 'shortfin' && matrix.platform == 'linux-x86_64'"
+      env:
+        OUTPUT_DIR: "${{ github.workspace }}/bindist"
+        OVERRIDE_PYTHON_VERSIONS: "${{ matrix.python-version }}"
+      run: |
+        [ -e ./bindist/* ] && rm ./bindist/*
+        ./c/shortfin/build_tools/build_linux_package.sh
+
+    - name: Upload python wheels
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@50769540e7f4bd5e21e526ee35c689e35e0d6874 # v4.4.0
+      with:
+        if-no-files-found: error
+        name: snapshot-${{ matrix.package }}-${{ matrix.platform }}-${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        path: bindist
+
+    - name: Release python wheels
+      uses: ncipollo/release-action@2c591bcc8ecdcd2db72b97d6147f871fcd833ba5 # v1.14.0
+      with:
+        artifacts: bindist/*.whl
+        token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+        tag: "dev-wheels"
+        name: "dev-wheels"
+        body: "Automatic snapshot release of SHARK-Platform python wheels."
+        removeArtifacts: false
+        allowUpdates: true
+        replacesArtifacts: true
+        makeLatest: false
diff --git a/shortfin/.gitignore b/shortfin/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5469650d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shortfin/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Local-only config options
+version_info.json
diff --git a/shortfin/setup.py b/shortfin/setup.py
index deb9b745b..a4f3e31ec 100644
--- a/shortfin/setup.py
+++ b/shortfin/setup.py
@@ -4,16 +4,17 @@
 # See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
 
-from distutils.core import setup, Extension
-import sys
+import json
+import os
 import shutil
 import subprocess
-import os
-from pathlib import Path
+import sys
 from distutils.command.build import build as _build
+from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+from pathlib import Path
 from setuptools import find_namespace_packages
-from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext as _build_ext
 from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
+from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext as _build_ext
 
 
 def get_env_boolean(name: str, default_value: bool = False) -> bool:
@@ -133,6 +134,40 @@ def copy_extensions_to_source(self, *args, **kwargs):
         ...
 
 
+# Setup and get version information.
+VERSION_INFO_FILE = os.path.join(SOURCE_DIR, "version_info.json")
+
+
+def load_version_info():
+    with open(VERSION_INFO_FILE, "rt") as f:
+        return json.load(f)
+
+
+def find_git_version():
+    try:
+        return (
+            subprocess.check_output(["git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=SOURCE_DIR)
+            .decode("utf-8")
+            .strip()
+        )
+    except subprocess.SubprocessError as e:
+        print(f"ERROR: Could not get git revision: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
+    return None
+
+
+try:
+    version_info = load_version_info()
+except FileNotFoundError:
+    print("version_info.json not found. Using defaults", file=sys.stderr)
+    version_info = {}
+git_version = find_git_version()
+
+PACKAGE_VERSION = version_info.get("package-version")
+if not PACKAGE_VERSION:
+    PACKAGE_VERSION = f"0.dev0+{git_version or '0'}"
+print(f"Using PACKAGE_VERSION: '{PACKAGE_VERSION}'")
+
+
 def maybe_nuke_cmake_cache(cmake_build_dir):
     # From run to run under pip, we can end up with different paths to ninja,
     # which isn't great and will confuse cmake. Detect if the location of
@@ -324,7 +359,7 @@ def populate_built_package(abs_dir):
 
 setup(
     name="shortfin",
-    version="0.9",
+    version=f"{PACKAGE_VERSION}",
     description="Shortfin native library implementation",
     author="SHARK Authors",
     packages=packages,