diff --git a/ci/build_wheel.sh b/ci/build_wheel.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..06d0c3c7a56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/build_wheel.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+package_name=$1
+package_dir=$2
+
+source rapids-configure-sccache
+source rapids-date-string
+
+# Use gha-tools rapids-pip-wheel-version to generate wheel version then
+# update the necessary files
+version_override="$(rapids-pip-wheel-version ${RAPIDS_DATE_STRING})"
+
+RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX="$(rapids-wheel-ctk-name-gen ${RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION})"
+
+# This is the version of the suffix with a preceding hyphen. It's used
+# everywhere except in the final wheel name.
+PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX="-${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}"
+
+# Patch project metadata files to include the CUDA version suffix and version override.
+pyproject_file="${package_dir}/pyproject.toml"
+
+sed -i "s/^version = .*/version = \"${version_override}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+sed -i "s/name = \"${package_name}\"/name = \"${package_name}${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+
+# For nightlies we want to ensure that we're pulling in alphas as well. The
+# easiest way to do so is to augment the spec with a constraint containing a
+# min alpha version that doesn't affect the version bounds but does allow usage
+# of alpha versions for that dependency without --pre
+alpha_spec=''
+if ! rapids-is-release-build; then
+    alpha_spec=',>=0.0.0a0'
+fi
+
+if [[ ${package_name} == "dask_cudf" ]]; then
+    sed -r -i "s/cudf==(.*)\"/cudf${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}==\1${alpha_spec}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+else
+    sed -r -i "s/rmm(.*)\"/rmm${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}\1${alpha_spec}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+    # ptxcompiler and cubinlinker aren't version constrained
+    sed -r -i "s/ptxcompiler\"/ptxcompiler${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+    sed -r -i "s/cubinlinker\"/cubinlinker${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}\"/g" ${pyproject_file}
+fi
+
+if [[ $PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX == "-cu12" ]]; then
+    sed -i "s/cuda-python[<=>\.,0-9a]*/cuda-python>=12.0,<13.0a0/g" ${pyproject_file}
+    sed -i "s/cupy-cuda11x/cupy-cuda12x/g" ${pyproject_file}
+    sed -i "/ptxcompiler/d" ${pyproject_file}
+    sed -i "/cubinlinker/d" ${pyproject_file}
+fi
+
+cd "${package_dir}"
+
+python -m pip wheel . -w dist -vvv --no-deps --disable-pip-version-check
diff --git a/ci/build_wheel_cudf.sh b/ci/build_wheel_cudf.sh
index c20a5162788..7d3919b2d72 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel_cudf.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel_cudf.sh
@@ -3,24 +3,14 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
-source rapids-configure-sccache
-source rapids-date-string
+package_dir="python/cudf"
 
-# Use gha-tools rapids-pip-wheel-version to generate wheel version then
-# update the necessary files
-version_override="$(rapids-pip-wheel-version ${RAPIDS_DATE_STRING})"
+export SKBUILD_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="-DCUDF_BUILD_WHEELS=ON -DDETECT_CONDA_ENV=OFF"
 
-RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX="$(rapids-wheel-ctk-name-gen ${RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION})"
-
-ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh ${version_override} "-${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}"
-echo "The package name and/or version was modified in the package source. The git diff is:"
-git diff
-
-cd python/cudf
+./ci/build_wheel.sh cudf ${package_dir}
 
-SKBUILD_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="-DCUDF_BUILD_WHEELS=ON -DDETECT_CONDA_ENV=OFF" python -m pip wheel . -w dist -vvv --no-deps --disable-pip-version-check
+mkdir -p ${package_dir}/final_dist
+python -m auditwheel repair -w ${package_dir}/final_dist ${package_dir}/dist/*
 
-mkdir -p final_dist
-python -m auditwheel repair -w final_dist dist/*
-
-RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_NAME="cudf_${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}" rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3 final_dist
+RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX="$(rapids-wheel-ctk-name-gen ${RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION})"
+RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_NAME="cudf_${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}" rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3 ${package_dir}/final_dist
diff --git a/ci/build_wheel_dask_cudf.sh b/ci/build_wheel_dask_cudf.sh
index 9af90d3a863..47e35c46004 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel_dask_cudf.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel_dask_cudf.sh
@@ -3,22 +3,9 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
-source rapids-configure-sccache
-source rapids-date-string
+package_dir="python/dask_cudf"
 
-# Use gha-tools rapids-pip-wheel-version to generate wheel version then
-# update the necessary files
-version_override="$(rapids-pip-wheel-version ${RAPIDS_DATE_STRING})"
+./ci/build_wheel.sh dask_cudf ${package_dir}
 
 RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX="$(rapids-wheel-ctk-name-gen ${RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION})"
-
-ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh ${version_override} "-${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}"
-echo "The package name and/or version was modified in the package source. The git diff is:"
-git diff
-
-cd python/dask_cudf
-
-# Hardcode the output dir
-python -m pip wheel . -w dist -vvv --no-deps --disable-pip-version-check
-
-RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_NAME="dask_cudf_${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}" rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3 dist
+RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_NAME="dask_cudf_${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}" rapids-upload-wheels-to-s3 ${package_dir}/dist
diff --git a/ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh b/ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 9d337aaa057..00000000000
--- a/ci/release/apply_wheel_modifications.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
-#
-# Usage: bash apply_wheel_modifications.sh <new_version> <cuda_suffix>
-
-VERSION=${1}
-CUDA_SUFFIX=${2}
-
-# pyproject.toml versions
-sed -i "s/^version = .*/version = \"${VERSION}\"/g" python/cudf/pyproject.toml
-sed -i "s/^version = .*/version = \"${VERSION}\"/g" python/dask_cudf/pyproject.toml
-sed -i "s/^version = .*/version = \"${VERSION}\"/g" python/cudf_kafka/pyproject.toml
-sed -i "s/^version = .*/version = \"${VERSION}\"/g" python/custreamz/pyproject.toml
-
-# cudf pyproject.toml cuda suffixes
-sed -i "s/^name = \"cudf\"/name = \"cudf${CUDA_SUFFIX}\"/g" python/cudf/pyproject.toml
-sed -i "s/rmm/rmm${CUDA_SUFFIX}/g" python/cudf/pyproject.toml
-sed -i "s/ptxcompiler/ptxcompiler${CUDA_SUFFIX}/g" python/cudf/pyproject.toml
-sed -i "s/cubinlinker/cubinlinker${CUDA_SUFFIX}/g" python/cudf/pyproject.toml
-
-# dask_cudf pyproject.toml cuda suffixes
-sed -i "s/^name = \"dask_cudf\"/name = \"dask_cudf${CUDA_SUFFIX}\"/g" python/dask_cudf/pyproject.toml
-# Need to provide the == to avoid modifying the URL
-sed -i "s/\"cudf==/\"cudf${CUDA_SUFFIX}==/g" python/dask_cudf/pyproject.toml
-
-if [[ $CUDA_SUFFIX == "-cu12" ]]; then
-    sed -i "s/cuda-python[<=>\.,0-9a]*/cuda-python>=12.0,<13.0a0/g" python/cudf/pyproject.toml
-    sed -i "s/cupy-cuda11x/cupy-cuda12x/g" python/{cudf,dask_cudf}/pyproject.toml
-    sed -i "s/numba[<=>\.,0-9]*/numba>=0.57/g" python/{cudf,dask_cudf}/pyproject.toml
-    sed -i "/ptxcompiler/d" python/cudf/pyproject.toml
-    sed -i "/cubinlinker/d" python/cudf/pyproject.toml
-fi