Barry
The team

The team
behind Barry.

Griffin Velichko, co-founder and CEO of Barry.
Co-founder · CEO

Griffin Velichko

Griffin grew up around the trades. Griffin spent his high school summers framing houses, labouring on sites, and running demolition jobs. His dad also spent 25 years in construction — PM @ Bird Construction, VP @ Stack Modular, COPPS Foundation. His uncle owns and runs a flooring store in Kamloops, and most of his relatives work in or around the trades. The other half of high school he was running a sneaker-resale business — scraping limited-edition drops with bots he wrote in his bedroom, which is how he taught himself to code at 16. He graduated top 10% of UBC's combined Business and Computer Science program, interned at an AI consulting firm, Fastloop AI, a Google Cloud Partner. Most recently, he and Torrin took first place at the Google DeepMind-sponsored Continual Learning Hackathon in San Francisco. He's been hearing about the problem Barry solves at family dinners since he was a kid — Barry is the version of the job his dad and his uncle should have had a long time ago.

Torrin Pataki, co-founder and CTO of Barry.
Co-founder · CTO

Torrin Pataki

Torrin grew up in Langley, BC. He started his first company in high school — an online tutoring service during COVID lockdowns — and built the software to help run it himself. He's graduating from UBC's combined Business and Computer Science program with a minor in Statistics, and starts a Master's in Computer Science at UBC in the fall, specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP). His Machine Learning (ML) track record is a big part of why Barry can do what it does: he led the quantitative ML build for a CC&L NLP financial-modelling competition, where his team placed first after a four-month run, and ran ML as a lead at Quantico. Since teaming up with Griffin, they've taken first at the Google DeepMind-sponsored Continual Learning Hackathon in San Francisco and third at both a Cursor hackathon and the Althra accelerator-sponsored hackathon. Torrin contributes to the part of Barry that turns a voice memo from a framer into a daily log, a change order, and a clean answer to requests like “build me a pdf report for all of my sites today” — and he's been quietly building things like it since he was in high school.

Memo · Why Barry exists
File 001

Trades pros are great at their trades. They shouldn't have to run a second full-time job to keep the first one organized.

We've watched owner-operators close out a long day on site, then spend the evening writing daily logs, chasing change orders, and re-keying numbers into QuickBooks. The math on the mistakes is brutal — preventable misses cost thousands of dollars per project. Not because anyone's slacking. Because no one person can hold every detail in their head at once.

So we're building Barry to handle progress tracking, daily logs, change orders, scheduling, and the questions that wake you up in the middle of the night. Your crew keeps doing great work. Barry handles everything else.

We're constantly learning. We're listening to the people doing the work. We genuinely care about getting this right.

And if you're an owner-operator in the trades or home services — reach out. We'd love to get Barry on your sites.

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Griffin & Torrin
Co-founders · Vancouver, BC
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