Kiko Barr Top-Executive
🤖 AI Engineer with experience in Cybersecurity AI apps, RAG pipelines, and MCPs 💻 AI Engineer (Student Employee) for Cal Poly Humboldt IT Services 🧪 AI Research Assistant at Cal Poly Humboldt🏆 Customer Obsession Individual Award at 2025 Cal Poly SLO AI Summer Camp🎓 B.S. Computer Science (4.0 GPA) ⭐️ Graduating May 2026
Industry:
Internet
Headquarters:
San Francisco, California
Title:
AI Security Engineer
Company:
Terra Quantum
Company Industry:
Internet
Company Website:
terraquantum.swiss
Company Linkedin:
linkedin.com/company/terra-quantum-ag
Company Size:
51-200
Current Job Duration:
5 mos
Country:
United States
Work Experience:
Title: AI Security Engineer
Company: Terra Quantum Ag
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/terra-quantum-ag/
Industry: Internet
Company Size: 51-200
Location: San Francisco, CA
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 03-2026
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Cal Poly Humboldt
Company: None
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/school/cal-poly-humboldt/
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 08-2025
Ends At: 03-2026
Description: Reconfigured and deployed the LLM-based coding agent (RepairAgent) on a Kubernetes cluster, parallelizing execution of 800+ Defects4J bugs using indexed jobs, configmaps, persistent volumes; observed and evaluated agent performance with Python-based scripts, statistical analysis using McNemar's test., Designed "Tier 1 Analyst" cybersecurity AI worker to enrich Elastic alerts with threat intelligence and LLM-based analysis from Gemini API, targeting false-positive reduction and alert fatigue.
Designed LLM-powered chatbot for HR to validate job descriptions against CSU policy and union contracts to improve compliance and transform manual HR workflows into automated, scalable systems
Built a conversational AI prototype using a Streamlit chat interface and a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) backend (LangChain, Postgres/pgvector) with document ingestion, vector indexing, and semantic retrieval to explore a campus-facing IT support chatbot.
Developed a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with streamable HTTP transport and fetch/search tools to enable natural language querying of Hudu database through ChatGPT Connectors.
Title: Community Development Specialist
Company: City Of Arcata
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/city-of-arcata/
Industry: Government Administration
Company Size: 51-200
Location: Arcata, CA
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 08-2023
Ends At: 08-2024
Description: None
Title: Real Estate Specialist
Company: Peninsula Open Space Trust (Post)
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/postlandtrust/
Industry: Environmental Services
Company Size: 51-200
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 12-2021
Ends At: 06-2023
Description: None
Title: Director of Marketing
Company: None
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 04-2021
Ends At: 12-2021
Description: None
Title: Outreach Coordinator
Company: California Association Of Resource Conservation Districts
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/california-association-of-resource-conservation-districts/
Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
Company Size: 1-10
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 08-2018
Ends At: 02-2021
Description: None
Title: Sodexo and UC Davis Student Housing and Dining Services
Company: Uc Davis Student Housing And Dining Services
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uc-davis-student-housing/
Industry: Higher Education
Company Size: 201-500
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 07-2015
Ends At: 06-2017
Description: Leveraged change management techniques to increase locally sourced ingredients purchased by the UC Davis Dining Commons by 11%.
Hired, trained, and supervised six student employees, ensuring smooth on-boarding processes and ongoing skill development.
Education:
School: Cal Poly Humboldt
Degree: Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
Activities: None
School: University of California, Davis
Degree: Bachelor of Science - BS, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
Activities: None
Headline:
AI Engineer | Cybersecurity + AI | Graduating May 2026