Ertuğrul Harman

Attorney (Istanbul Bar) & Software Engineer. Based in the United States, building at the intersection of law, technology, and AI.

• ▹Attorney — Istanbul Bar Association & Union of Turkish Bar Associations, Türkiye
  • ·Commercial Contracts — drafting, negotiation, and risk allocation across cross-border transactions in Turkish and English
  • ·Corporate & M&A — cross-border mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, and joint ventures for Fortune 500 and multinational clients; multi-jurisdictional due diligence
  • ·Telecommunications — commercial agreements structured and negotiated at 1M+ end-user scale
  • ·Regulatory & Litigation — compliance and commercial litigation
  • ·Technology Law — advising international clients on technology and data matters
  • ·Practice Leadership — supervising attorney teams across contract review, business law, and risk mitigation
• ▹Senior Software Engineer — enterprise and independent, United States
  • ·Enterprise & Cloud Systems — full-stack development and DevOps across finance and technology; cloud-native architecture on AWS and Google Cloud
  • ·Pipelines & Orchestration — high-volume data ingestion and AI-based enrichment; containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation
  • ·Data & Governance — catalogs, lineage, and metadata standards (DCAT, DPROD, RDF); graph databases and knowledge graphs for AI-ready platforms
  • ·Cryptography — private-domain PKI, X.509 certificates, and TLS; OWASP-aligned API development
  • ·Certificate, Computer Programming (Java) — Austin Community College, United States (Chancellor’s Honor Roll)
  • ·Published Applications — desktop, web, and mobile; iOS & macOS on the Apple App Store
• ▹Writer — ertugrulharman.com, bilingual technology & law blog, over two decades (retired 2026)
• ▹Mediator — Türkiye & United States
  • ·Licensed Mediator — Türkiye; civil, commercial, and employment disputes
  • ·Expert Mediator, Employment Law — certified by Istanbul University, Türkiye
  • ·Mediator Training — Texas A&M University and Tarrant County, Texas; dispute resolution techniques meeting state requirements for court-appointed mediation
• ▹Member — American Bar Association, United States
• ▹PhD Candidate, Private International Law — Istanbul University, Türkiye (dissertation on international commercial contracts)
• ▹LLM, International Business Law — University of Exeter, United Kingdom
• ▹LLM, US Law — Texas A&M University, United States
• ▹LLB, Law — Istanbul Bilgi University, Türkiye
• ▹Night Shift — Defender of Kaer Morhen 🐺