Yekta Eren Ercul

About Me

I am a 3rd year computer engineering student at Boğaziçi University. I am currently working full time as a backend engineer for the last couple of months.

Technical Skills

• Java (Spring Boot)
• JavaScript (Nodejs)
• C# (dotNet)
• Python

Work Experience

• Backend Engineer @Pooly, August 2022 - December 2022
• Software Developer @Leext, January 2023 - Ongoing (This is an HR-Tech startup that me and my friends started)
• Software Developer @Otorento, June 2023 - Ongoing (Currently working full-time)

Personal Projects and Interests

I am really curios and interested in developing efficient backends and well-designed softwares for data intensive applications. I haven't got much chance to develop personal projects since I got into the work life early, however this made me a great team player early on. Besides I did got the opportunity to experience how to build big applications from scratch with every layer involved. In the future I want to be more involved in handling the data related parts of the big projects, kind of being a Data Engineer. Also I am really interested in developing myself in the design-pattern types in the backend.

Contact

If you would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at [email protected] .

• LinkedIn: Yekta Ercul

Weekly Effort Report

Week 2

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Rewriting the homepage	1h	Rewritten the homepage	#203
Updating the Requirements	2h	Added Tournament and Challenge requirements, and made some refactoring to the page	#204

Week 3

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Taking the meeting notes for Oct 8	1h	Added the page	#218
Created most of the Class Diagram.	2h	Created the page	#209

Week 4

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
In this week's meeting designed how we going to implement the semantic search structure and explain it to Oguz.	1h	Briefly explained in the lab report	#219
Created the backend. A basic runnable version of it.	2h	Created the basic rest api in this pr	#228
Connected database to backend.	1h	Connected the db in this pr	#224
Created signup endpoint for backend.	1h	Created the needed components in this pr	#221
Created login endpoint for backend.	1h	Created the needed components in this pr	#225

Week 5

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Designed the structure of Annotation Web Model with Oguz and implemented it myself.	3h	created pr	#324 and #276
Finalized the backend entity layer and created autonomous category initialization structure	5h	created pr	#274

Week 6

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task

Week 7

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Designed the structure of Tournament service with Scheduled structure	4h	created pr	#310
Implemented tournament entering and scoring methods	3h	created pr	#310
Implemented gcp bucket file service with Turker	2h	created pr	#291

Week 8

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Implemented User Followings structure: relation table, getFollowings, getFollowers, follow, unfollow endpoints	3h	created pr	#321
Implemented Category Followings structure: relation table, follow, unfollow endpoints	2h	created pr	#333

Week 9

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Implement tournament prize assignment	2h	created pr	#347
Set up swagger on backend	2h	created pr and the swagger	#377

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CmpE 352 Weekly Effort Reports

Week 1

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Repository Research Report	1h	Wrote the page	#25
Creating personal page	0.5h	Created the page	#19

Week 2

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Add duration labels	10m	labels are added	#29
Talked about branch management at the meeting	20m	Meeting is conducted	#34

Week 3

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Take meeting notes and create the page	1h	Notes are taken and tidied up, created the page	None

Week 4

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Research on Wikidata and its API	2h	Created the page	#38

Week 5

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Create the simple version of the requirements in the meeting	1.5h	Created the page without a proper format	None
Review and made refactor suggestion to Requirements	1h	Prepared and served the suggestions	#44
Review and made refactor suggestion to Elicitation Questions	1h	Prepared and served the suggestions	#46
Performance related reqs added to Requirements	0.5h	Prepared and served the requirements	#48
Review and made refactor suggestion to Scenarios	0.5h	Prepared and served the suggestions	#47

Week 6

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Added Decision-making and Assessment part to the Milestone report	2h	Edited the page	#52
Lead the meeting with the assistant asked all of the questions and give feedback to the team	1.5h	Edited the page according to the feedback	None
After the meeting re-reviewed Requirements, Scenarios and Mockups and gave feedback on Whatsapp and on the Issues itself	1.5h	Besides Whatsapp feedbacks, the feedbacks in the issues are these #47 #44	None
I have added personal contributions to the Milestone Report	1h	Edited the Milestone 1 Report	#54
Reviewed and edited the Roadmap	0.5h	Edited the Project roadmap	#53

Week 9

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Lead and took part in creating the Class Diagrams	2h	Created the diagram	#67

Week 10

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Refactored the Requirements in accordance with the feedback	0.5h	Refactored the page	#71

Week 11

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Added Authorization and Authentication to backend	4h	Created the components	#99
Refactored the backend folder structure with new features	3h	Refactored the backend code	#100
Applied Dependency Injection in backend structure	1h	Refactored the backend code	#101
Implemented Post and User Models to backend with service, controller and repository layers	3h	Added Models User, Post	#102
Added Global Exception Handling to backend to gracefully handle the exceptions	3h	Added needed configs	#114

Week 12

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Created Docker compose and Dockerfiles for backend, frontend and database	4h	Created docker-compose and other Dockerfiles 1 2	#135
Deployed backend, frontend and database to GCP	4h	Deployed links: 1 2	#136
Help frontend to run backend and use Postman	1h	Took a brief meeting with some of them and explained them the use of Postman and Spring boot	None
Wrote the backend challenges part in MS2 Report	1h	Added needed parts to Report	#142
Helped Oguz to write documentation of deployment and dockerization	0.5h	Resulted in file	None

Week 14

Task Name	Duration	Result	Issue of the task
Added Community Service, Controller and Repository layers	3h	Methods: getCommunityByName getPostsOfCommunity	#156
Added User Profile Logic in backend	4h	methods: getPostsOfUser getPostsUserReactedTo getUserById	#157
Created custom Post Response	2h	Implemented needed JPA Query methods and models here and repository	#158
Created custom Comment Response	1.5h	Implemented needed JPA Query methods and models here and repository	#159
Implemented Change Password in backend	1h	Implemented with controller and service layer here and service	#160
Implemented Upload Profile Picture Endpoint in backend	1h	Updated the return objects and added a new endpoint to update the profile picture: updateProfilePicture	#161
Refactored Posts to Add Images	2h	Image acceptance added to the Post Entity. Also posts return updated accordingly in the endpoint: create	#162
Added Get Bookmarked Posts	1h	Service Layer refactored and endpoint added: getBookmarkedPosts	#163
Implemented User Service and Post Service Unit tests	3h	User Service Tests and Post Service Tests	#165 #164