diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b900047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+name: Build dev package distributions
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    types:
+      - closed
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+
+      # we need to fetch the full repo history to use setuptools_scm
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
+        with:
+          version: "0.10.7"
+          python-version: "3.14"
+          enable-cache: true
+
+      - name: Sync dependencies
+        run: uv sync --all-extras --dev
+
+      - name: Build Python package
+        run: uv build
+      
+      - name: Upload package distributions as artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: python-package-distributions
+          path: |
+            dist/
+            !dist/.gitignore
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aaf4894
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+name: Push Release Tags
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - '**'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      # we need to fetch the full repo history to use setuptools_scm
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
+        with:
+          version: "0.10.7"
+          python-version: "3.14"
+          enable-cache: true
+
+      - name: Sync dependencies
+        run: uv sync --all-extras --dev
+
+      - name: Build Python package
+        run: uv build
+
+      - name: Upload package distributions as artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: python-package-distributions
+          path: |
+            dist/
+            !dist/.gitignore
+
+  
+  pypi-publish:
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment:
+      name: pypi
+      url: https://pypi.org/p/python-tind-client
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Download built package distributions
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
+        with:
+          name: python-package-distributions
+          path: dist/
+
+      - name: Public package distributions to PyPI
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6606ba4..f6ced42 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ dist/
 build/
 *.egg-info/
 *.egg
+tind_client/_version.py
 
 # Virtual environments
 .venv/
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index de77531..847470b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [0.2.2]
+
+### Changed
+- build package and publish to pypi, using setuptools_scm for version management
+
 ## [0.2.1]
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4d92ccf..8a8a26d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=80"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=80", "setuptools-scm[simple]>=10.0.5"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "python-tind-client"
-version = "0.2.1"
+dynamic = ["version"]
 description = "Python library for interacting with the TIND DA API"
 readme = "README.md"
-license = { file = "LICENSE" }
+license-files = ["LICENSE"]
 authors = [
     { name = "Jason Raitz", email = "raitz@berkeley.edu" },
     { name = "maría a. matienzo", email = "matienzo@berkeley.edu" },
@@ -61,5 +61,13 @@ allow-init-docstring = true
 skip-checking-raises = true
 style = "sphinx"
 
+[tool.pylint.master]
+ignore = ["_version.py"]
+
 [tool.pylint.format]
 max-line-length = 100
+
+# the following is unnecessary, but having anything in this config section
+# suppresses a spurious build warning from setuptools_scm.
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+version_file = "tind_client/_version.py"