The people behind Trips and how features are built at Revolut

Every Revolut feature you see in the app has a story behind it. Sketches, pitches, drafts, breakthrough moments, and a lot of teamwork.

We’re taking a look at one of our newest features under the in-app travel umbrella: Trips.

Trips is an end-of-trip summary that gives you a spending overview from your time abroad. A push notification will give you a neat summary of your travels, highlighting daily spend and categories.

You can always revisit these insights from Analytics later on — or even better, share your travel map straight to Instagram Stories. It’s a feature designed to make your financial story part of your travel memories.

But what makes Trips really special is how it came to life. It's a showcase of what happens when people across Design, Engineering, Operations, and Product teams come together around a shared idea.

The spark

For Margarida Botelho, Product Designer, Trips started with a spark of inspiration two years ago.

Margarida first pitched the idea in 2023, back when the team was knee-deep in the Rev10 redesign. The timing wasn’t right, but she never let it go.

“I kept casually pitching it to colleagues in the cafeteria, over drinks with the team. Every time I explained it people instantly got it and lit up with excitement. That reaction told me we had something special.”

Fast forward to when the green light came, and the idea grew into something bigger. Not just a map of where you’ve been, but a set of travel insights: clear, visual, and memorable. With that, Trips officially took off.

Building the globe

Ideas are easy, but execution? That’s where things get interesting. For Arnis Shaikhutdinov, Android Software Engineer, Trips was an opportunity to break new ground.

“I was fully responsible for crafting the interactive 3D globe experience end-to-end. It’s the first of its kind in the entire app.”

Instead of going down the traditional route, Arnis proposed something unusual: a cross-platform approach based on web technology. That meant one codebase for both iOS and Android, cutting development time down by half.

By empowering his state-of-the-art AI development to support the workflow process, Arnis changed the way a feature can be built at Revolut. The result was a smooth, interactive 3D globe that makes Trips feel less like a spreadsheet and more like an adventure you can hold in your hand.

Behind the product decisions

Every feature at Revolut has its own invisible backbone. Operational and product decisions make sure what’s built isn't just beautiful, but feasible, reliable, and scalable. Alex Cockwill played an essential role in this project. First joining as an Ops Manager, then stepping into his new role as a Product Owner.

In his Ops role, Alex ensured the project could actually land in the hands of customers by navigating compliance checks, testing, and approvals. But as he transitioned into the Product team, his scope widened to end-to-end delivery: defining requirements with engineering and design, steering product development, and shaping the go-to-market strategy.

Trips became both a product milestone and a personal milestone, marking how Alex could apply his different skill sets to bring an ambitious idea to life.

More than a feature

Trips is a way to collect memories, stories, and give people a new way to look back at their adventures. And for us at Revolut, it’s also a story of teamwork across borders and departments.

From Margarida’s early napkin pitch to Arnis’ groundbreaking 3D work, Trips is proof that even “small” features in our app are the result of dozens of people and ideas coming together.

And the best part? We’re just getting started.

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