Garri Tonakanyan

Garri Tonakanyan is a Product Design Lead at REKKI since 2022. Prior to that, they were a Lead Product Designer at Yandex from 2015 to 2022, where they held multiple roles. Garri built a bank and other fintech products from scratch, launched multiple loan offerings, owned the design of payment and credits streams, constructed an innovative C2C payment flow, integrated a Wallet with cashback points, built and maintained the Fintech design system, and validated hypotheses with rapid prototypes. Garri was also a key contributor in transforming the 40M MAU search app into a super app, launched an e-commerce platform and mini apps for external merchants, turned the payment integration feature into Yandex Pay, set guides for promo formats, and designed the Self-isolation index. Garri also owned the design of Russia's most visited website, generating a 400% increase in daily revenue as a result of ad formats redesign, and introduced entertainment content feed into the desktop, leading to a 2.5x increase in its DAU. Garri also held the roles of Product Designer at Yandex Disk and Junior Product Designer.

Garri Tonakanyan attended University of the Arts London in 2015, where they studied Graphic Design. Garri then attended Yandex Design School to study Product Design, where they are currently enrolled. In August 2022, they obtained an Exceptional Talent in the Digital Technology Sector certification from Tech Nation.