Development Team
Meet the development team starting with Sean Padilla, the first operator clients meet before the wider AI K9 build team grows.
Sean Padilla leads AI K9 as lead developer, serves as founder of NVEST NVETS Foundation, studies computer science at BMCC, and remains an honorably discharged six-year Air Force K9 veteran. AI K9 is veteran-built digital service work backed by real coding skill, field discipline, and mission-first execution. Contact: Sean@codee.email.
Lead developer
Sean Padilla
Deployed one tour to Kandahar, Afghanistan. Now serving as AI K9 Lead Developer and NVEST NVETS Foundation Lead Project Manager, Sean built AI K9 Kennel from real field experience, canine training, and practical AI system work.
Founder Story
The mission came out of service, pressure, rebuilding, and staying useful.
My early path was shaped by six years of Air Force service, Military Working Dog handling, and one deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan. That foundation built the discipline, pressure management, and operational mindset that now show up everywhere inside AI K9 Kennel.
Later came entrepreneurship, restaurant ownership, public-facing operations, setbacks, homelessness, rebuilding, benefits navigation, and learning how to stay useful when everything is unstable. Those seasons changed the mission and made practicality matter more than image.
The kennel identity comes from that field-tested reality. Codee was not built as a random chatbot. Codee was built as an operator layer shaped by the same need for clarity, support, usefulness, and structure.
AI K9 Kennel exists because that experience needed a public operating system: something that could show proof, build digital service lanes, and keep the mission tied to real outcomes instead of talking about possibilities only.
Service Proof
The record here should show service, handling, and military proof.
Official AFCENT Article
- Published March 15, 2010
- By Tech. Sgt. Renni Thornton
- 451st Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs
- Names Airman 1st Class Sean Padilla in Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan
U.S. Air Force Service Record
- Security Forces
- Military Working Dog Handler
- Rank: Senior Airman (E-4)
- Service Period: 2008 to 2014
- Character of Service: Honorable
- Foreign Service: Afghanistan
Awards and Medals Listed
- Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
- Air Force Good Conduct Medal
- National Defense Service Medal
- Afghanistan Campaign Medal with 1 device
- Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
- Air Force Longevity Service Award
- NCO Professional Military Education Graduate Ribbon
- Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon
- Air Force Training Ribbon
Military Working Dog Certification
- Military Working Dog Handler Course
- Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
- 341 training hours
- Completed April 2013
- U.S. Air Force Training credential
Development Team
Interested in joining the development team?
Treat this as the public application lane. If you are a serious builder and want to contribute to AI K9 Kennel, send the resume and contact details the same way you would approach a real long-term product role.
Send your resume, role interest, portfolio links, and direct contact information to Sean@codee.email.
The expectation is simple: real product work, real consistency, and a willingness to build alongside the AI K9 system as it grows.