refactor: extract hardcoded values to constants

[rishavmehra]

this refactoring improves code maintainability by providing a single source of truth for configuration values

[rishavmehra]

@smcio can you review this!

[smcio]

Thanks very much @rishavmehra - will do :)

[rishavmehra]

@smcio Is the outside contribution considerable?
If yes, I'm happy to contribute because I see a lot of code that needs to be refactored