Barathan's Bio

About Me

Email: [email protected]

Overview

I am a student at Boğaziçi University with a strong interest in dropping out of this university, artificial intelligence, and financial markets. My experience includes working with machine learning models, large language models (LLMs), and deep learning. I have participated in various competitions and projects, focusing on real-world applications of AI.

Beyond academics, I explore different areas of computing, engage in research projects, and continuously expand my knowledge in emerging technologies, basically all I can do just to survive.

🌍 Environmental Statistics Service API (External Mobile Module)

Fetches up-to-date environmental indicators from global-warming.org and guarantees a graceful fallback when the remote API is down.

Function	What it returns	Upstream endpoint
fetchLatestCO2Level()	{ co2, trend, year, month, day, cycle }	/co2-api
fetchLatestArcticIceData()	{ year, month, extent, anomaly }	/arctic-api
fetchLatestTemperatureData()	{ year, month, station, land }	/temperature-api
getRandomEnvironmentalStat()	{ title, value, unit, statement } – combines the three calls above, adds offline defaults, and picks one at random	composite

Used by EnvironmentalStat component to show a random fact with context-aware iconography and styling in the mobile app.

Implementation highlights

• Written in TypeScript; zero external dependencies.
• All I/O is fetch-based and wrapped in try/catch; each helper validates the upstream payload before use.
• Promise.allSettled keeps the UI responsive even if one service fails.
• Fallback pool covers plastic waste, deforestation, extinction rates, and water scarcity to ensure a stat is always shown.

Source: merged in #140.

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✅ My Contribution Checklist

✔︎	Work item	Proof
✅	Environmental Statistics Service API – design & implementation	PR #140
✅	Mobile unit-test suite (Jest + React Native Testing Library)	mobile-unit-tests branch → /practice-app/MobileApp/__tests__
✅	Code review / manual merge of multiple branches	Issue #127
✅	Continuous commits across semester (features, refactors, hot-fixes)	GitHub activity graph