I’m Divyash Gupta.
I’m a Business Analyst at PalTech in Hyderabad. Most of what I do sits between two groups of people who are both right about different things, and my job is to make sure they end up describing the same problem.
My academic background sits across two worlds. I did my B.Tech in Computer Science at Amity University, and later a PGDM in Finance at IMT Hyderabad.
Technology is where I started. Over time I became much more interested in the space between technology and business: understanding problems, talking to people, breaking down requirements, thinking about products, and figuring out how technology can actually solve something that matters. That’s what eventually pulled me towards Business Analysis.
Outside work I’m curious in a fairly undisciplined way. I learn by building things, taking them apart, and following whatever I’ve just become interested in.
A slightly
unusual route
Computer Science first, Finance second, and a role that needed both.
Computer Science
B.Tech in Computer Science
Amity University
Computer Science gave me the technical foundation. More than any specific language or framework, it taught me to think logically, break a large problem into smaller ones, and understand how software actually works underneath the interface.
Finance
PGDM in Finance
IMT Hyderabad
Finance added a completely different lens. I started thinking about businesses rather than systems. Decisions, numbers, incentives, trade-offs, and how organisations actually create value. It rearranged how I evaluate whether something is worth doing.
Now
Business Analyst
PalTech · Hyderabad
Business Analysis turned out to be the role where both of those become useful at the same time. The technical side tells me what is feasible; the business side tells me whether it's worth building.
This is where those two sides started coming together.
Technology × Business × People
My interests sit somewhere in the middle of these three things. I don’t think any of them is interesting enough on its own.
Technology
Technology gives me the ability to understand what can be built, and a sense of where the difficulty is actually hiding.
Business
Business helps me understand why something should be built at all: what it costs, what it displaces, and who benefits if it works.
People
Working with people teaches me who it actually needs to work for. That's the part you can't derive from a document.
The work, described
honestly
- Understand
- I start with the problem rather than the solution: what is actually going wrong, who it affects, and what success would even look like. A surprising amount of the work is just getting that part right.
- Structure
- Conversations are messy by nature. My job is to turn them into something structured: clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and an honest view of what matters most right now.
- Connect
- A lot of the role is sitting between two groups who are both right. Business stakeholders know what they need, and engineers know what it will actually take. Keeping those two views in the same conversation is most of the value.
- Think
- I try not to stop at "what should we build?" The more useful question is usually "why are we building this, and what happens if we don't?"
- Learn
- Every stakeholder conversation changes my understanding of the problem slightly. I've stopped treating that as a setback and started treating it as the point.
Technology led me to AI. Business led me to Finance. Work led me to product thinking.
I’ve never been very good at sticking to one area of curiosity, and I’ve stopped treating that as a problem to fix.
Curiosity that doesn't stay in one place
I've never been very good at sticking to one area of curiosity. Technology led me to AI. Business led me to Finance. Work led me to product thinking. Each one keeps pulling on the next.
Learning by building
I understand things much better once I've tried to make them. Reading about something gets me halfway; putting a rough version together usually shows me the part I'd misunderstood.
AI and where it's going
I'm genuinely interested in AI and emerging technology, partly for what it can do and partly because it's a good test of the question I keep asking at work: is this actually the right tool for the problem?
Travelling, and perspective
Travelling has probably taught me more about different perspectives than any classroom could. It's a reasonably direct education in the fact that your way of seeing something isn't the only sensible one.
Connect with me
I'm Divyash, and I'm easiest to reach on LinkedIn.