Ilya Grishin

28 y.o., based in Saint Petersburg.
Designing Wallet in Telegram.

Craft over management — roughly 80% vision, design, and hands-on work in the trenches; 20% managing.

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Experience
2022
Wallet in TelegramNow
A crypto wallet integrated into Telegram
Lead design
The Open PlatformNow
TON ecosystem’s first unicorn, valued at $1B
Lead design
2021
Yandex
Russia’s largest tech company — search, maps, ride-hailing, cloud
Lead design
2016
VKontakte
Russian Facebook with ~90M MAU across Russia & CIS
From designer to lead
Telegram Contests
2024 Design Competition, R2 2nd
2023 Android Design Contest 1st
2022 Windows 11 Design Contest 1st
2021 Android Design Contest 2nd
2019 Theme Design Contest 2nd