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Founder & CTO at Brain Matched · Building an AI-powered career intelligence platform · Targeting a CTO seat at a venture-backed fintech building regulated payments and compliance infrastructure.

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

About

A polished executive at the intersection of Wall Street, business operations, technology, and client services.

Portrait of Estimé Aristomene, Jr.

Iwas born and raised in Brooklyn. I taught myself to code in the apartment I grew up in — Perl, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and enough binary to break things I shouldn't have. That self-taught instinct never left.

It carried me through a year in Bridgeport, Connecticut, five years in Westchester, New York, and into a J.P. Morgan analyst seat in Manhattan. From there, across consulting engagements at Barclays, GroupM, and Credit Suisse, into a front-office VP role on a Capital Markets desk, and back to JPMorganChase supporting a 700-person organization, a $50M+ technology portfolio, and trillions in transaction volume.

In July 2019, I relocated to Dallas for J.P. Morgan. In 2025, I started building for myself.

The shape of the career hasn't changed: build correctness-first, ship at founder velocity, lead as a co-leader rather than a gatekeeper. Today I work in two modes — as a founder building solutions for solving complex problems, and as senior leadership brought into companies for major projects and engagements.

01

Correctness-First

In regulated environments, “shipped” is not enough — it has to be right. The bias that took ~90% of the noise out of JPMorgan's AML platform.

02

Founder Velocity

Institutional discipline at startup speed. Compliance and velocity in the same career — JPMorganChase Deputy CTO, then $1M pre-seed founder.

03

Co-Leader

Genuine partner to the CEO and the board, not a process layer between them and the work. The technical and strategic spine.

04

Polyglot

Languages, domains, and platforms. Java, Python, TypeScript. Payments, AML, AI. Web, iOS, Android. Built across all three at Brain Matched.

Career

Two decades of institutional and founder leadership.

From a Brooklyn apartment teaching myself Perl to directing firmwide AML transformation at JPMorganChase. The work has been the same: build correctness-first, lead at the C-suite level, ship outcomes that matter.

2025 — Present
Founder Velocity

Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Brain Matched · Dallas, TX

Founded and architected an AI-powered career intelligence platform. Set vision and growth strategy, leading the business from concept through market launch while overseeing product, platform, go-to-market, partnerships, and capital formation.

Raised $1M pre-seed on the strength of the technical strategy, capital plan, and architectural defensibility. Architected and shipped institutional-grade platform across Web, iOS, and Android. Stood up regulated-grade governance, security, and operating discipline from inception.

Cross-Platform DeliveryCloud-NativeAI GovernanceCapital Formation
2025 — Present
National Scale

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Catch A Brake Mobile Mechanics · Dallas, TX

Recruited by the CEO to stabilize, modernize, and scale technology and operating environment, transforming a regional services business into a national, technology-enabled operation.

Led development and rollout of a cloud-enabled mobile SaaS service platform, enabling coordinated national scheduling, dispatch, and field execution across all 50 states. Deployed automation and analytics that supported 80%+ revenue growth.

Enterprise IT StrategyOperating Model DesignAutomation & Analytics
2022 — 2025
Firmwide Transformation

Deputy CTO & Global Technology Strategy Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co. · Dallas / New York

Recruited by the CTO to partner with senior leadership on tech, data, and AI strategy for a 700+ person global compliance technology organization spanning Global Financial Crimes, Trade and e-Comms, Relational Intelligence, and Data Science.

Directed firmwide AML and compliance platform transformation, embedding advanced data platforms and AI-enabled analytics that reduced AML false positives by ~90%, accelerated issue resolution, and materially lowered consent-order and regulatory risk exposure. Owned cloud (GCP) and platform strategy supporting 63 mission-critical platforms and a $50M+ annual technology portfolio. Reallocated $14.5M+ from legacy systems to higher-value modernization initiatives.

GCP & GKEAML & ComplianceAI-Enabled RiskNIST CSF · ISO 27001 · SOC 2
2014 — 2015
Capital Markets

Principal Consultant & Enterprise Solutions Architect

Wipro · Client: Credit Suisse

Led capital markets AML and trade surveillance implementations for Credit Suisse's Private Wealth Management. Drove full platform adoption of NICE Actimize and analytics-led validation across equities, fixed income, and derivatives.

NICE ActimizeTrade SurveillanceFront Office Risk
2013 — 2014
Enterprise Data

Domain Consultant Lead — Securities & Capital Markets

InterSys · Client: GroupM (Mindshare, Maxus)

Led enterprise data and analytics across GroupM agencies, enabling unified insights and improved decision-making for global consumer brands. Delivered scalable platforms that increased marketing ROI and strengthened cross-agency execution and governance.

Enterprise AnalyticsCross-Agency Platforms
2011 — 2012
Front-to-Back

Principal Consultant — Capital Markets Technology

Prospect 33 · Client: Barclays Capital

Advised senior stakeholders on front-to-back platform strategy, risk and regulatory readiness, and large-scale technology execution across trading, operations, and market infrastructure.

Trading PlatformsRegulatory Readiness
2005 — 2011
Foundation

Senior Business Analyst & IT Project Manager

JPMorgan Chase & Co. · New York

Led technology analysis and project delivery across lockbox operations supporting 10,000+ FTEs, strengthening control frameworks, improving delivery cadence, and optimizing workflows. Foundation for future digital, data, and automation initiatives.

Project DeliveryOperations Tech

Outcomes

Numbers a board can underwrite.

Two decades of work distilled into the metrics that matter for venture-backed fintech and regulated platforms — scale, capital efficiency, regulatory posture.

~90%

Reduction in AML false positives at JPMorganChase via AI-enabled analytics.

$2.03T

In annual transactions across 63 mission-critical platforms.

$50M+

Technology portfolio owned at JPMorganChase as Deputy CTO.

$14.5M

Reallocated from legacy systems to modernization at firmwide scale.

700+

Person global engineering organization advised across 5 countries.

$1M

Pre-seed raised at Brain Matched on architectural defensibility.

80%

Revenue growth at Catch A Brake via cloud-enabled SaaS rollout.

5

Countries · 63 platforms · 4 product lines under technology leadership.

Expertise

Polyglot — across languages, domains, and platforms.

Cloud & Architecture

Multi-region, multi-cloud · Hands-on

GCP (deep)GKEKubernetesDockerTerraformBigQueryHexagonal & Domain-Driven DesignCI/CDSREAWSAzure

Backend & Languages

Polyglot engineering leadership

JavaPythonTypeScriptC#SQLCloud-native stacksMicroservicesEvent-driven architectures

Frontend & Mobile

Cross-platform delivery proven at Brain Matched

ReactFlutteriOS nativeAndroid nativeModern web

Security, Risk & Compliance

Regulated-grade posture

ISO 27001NIST CSFSOC 2SOXGDPRHIPAAIAM (Okta, Azure AD)SIEMAML / KYC

Data, Analytics & AI

From analytics warehouse to GenAI applications

SnowflakeBigQuerySQL / NoSQLTensorFlowGenAI APIsML for Risk & ComplianceReal-Time AnalyticsResponsible AI

Service Delivery & Operating Model

Enterprise governance & operating cadence

Jira / Jira AlignServiceNowCI/CD PipelinesAgile / SAFeFinOpsVendor & Performance Governance

Education & Certifications

Formal foundation, continuously refreshed.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

    New York University · 2011

  • Associate of Applied Science, Business Management

    CUNY — Borough of Manhattan Community College · 2009

Professional Certifications

  • IBM Generative AI Engineering Professional Certificate
  • Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
  • Google Project Management Certificate
  • Six Sigma Master Black Belt
  • Building Generative AI-Powered Applications with Python (Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini)
  • Machine Learning with Python · Data Analysis with Python
  • Gen AI Foundational Models for NLP & Language Understanding

Contact

Building something regulated. Or running an engagement that has to be right.

For founders, boards, and venture investors hiring a CTO. For companies bringing in senior leadership for major projects and transformations. The right conversations start with a direct line.

Your message goes directly to Estimé. Replies usually within 24 hours, often faster. For LinkedIn or location:

LinkedInDallas-Fort Worth, Texas