Paul King
Staff Specialist Engineer
Paul is a Staff Specialist Software Engineer at AKQA Leap, focusing on mobile and web application development. An early adopter of Flutter with over seven years of experience, he has led the architecture and development of several high-profile applications. Most recently, Paul led the delivery of the official Eurovision Song Contest app, successfully scaling it to millions of users globally. He is passionate about clean architecture, strict tooling, and sharing the battle-tested strategies needed to ship rock-solid, production-grade applications.
Douze Points for Flutter! How we built the official Eurovision Song Contest mobile app
When millions of fans tune in for the world's largest live music event, your app can't miss a beat. The official Eurovision Song Contest app hit #1 on both the App Store and Google Play, surpassed 1 million combined downloads, and maintained a 99% crash-free rate during peak global traffic. In this lightning talk, we’ll speedrun the strategies and tools that made this possible - from the essential architectural pillars to the strict tooling that kept our codebase bulletproof. Whether you are building for 100 users or 1 million, you'll leave with a practical checklist for production-grade Flutter apps.