Divit Sheth

Divit Sheth is an Indian software engineer who is a Senior Software Engineer at the financial technology company Arcesium and CTO and co-founder of OpenAlmanac (originally The Almanac), an AI-powered knowledge platform.¹² He is based in Hyderabad, Telangana, and contributes to OpenAlmanac remotely while the company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.¹ Sheth co-founded the platform in October 2025 alongside Rohan Sharma (CEO) and Kushagra Chitkara.³ OpenAlmanac is part of the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc..

Early life and education

Sheth grew up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.¹ He attended Anand Niketan, Shilaj from 2005 to 2017, graduating with 93%.¹² He then studied Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics at The New Tulip International School in Ahmedabad from 2017 to 2019, scoring 90%.¹²

In 2019, Sheth enrolled at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), Hyderabad Campus, where he pursued a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.¹ He graduated in 2023 with a CGPA of 8.77 out of 10.¹² He completed a minor in Data Science between August 2021 and August 2023.¹² His student ID was 2019A3PS0353H.⁸⁴

During university, Sheth was a core member of the logistics team for TEDxBITSHyderabad from September 2019 to May 2021.¹² He received a BITS Pilani COVID-19 Special Scholarship of 11,000 INR for his Practice School I work at NESAC.⁸¹

Internships

In the summer of 2021, Sheth interned at the North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC) in Umiam, Meghalaya, through the BITS Pilani Practice School I program.⁴² He built a vegetation monitoring system for northeastern India using temporal satellite imagery, computing the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) with cloud masking in Google Earth Engine and integrating the results into a web application on Google App Engine.⁴

In summer 2022, Sheth interned at Arcesium's Gurugram office as a Software Engineer Intern on the Management Company Accounts (MCA) team.¹² His mentor was Abhay Charan and his manager was Suved Agnihotri.⁷¹ He implemented backend APIs for expense accounts, built dashboard services, and developed frontend components.¹² The internship ended with a full-time employment offer, which he announced in August 2022.⁷

From January to July 2023, Sheth interned at TELUS International AI Data Solutions in Bengaluru.¹² He worked on annotation tools for 3D and 4D-Lidar datasets, designing a curved cuboid feature to improve 2D projections of 3D models that was adopted by a client in Hungary.¹ He also built an undo stack manager for the 2D and 3D projection tools.¹

Arcesium

Sheth joined Arcesium, a financial technology firm spun off from the D.E. Shaw group, at its Hyderabad office as a Software Engineer in August 2023.¹²⁹ BITS Pilani placement records list his starting compensation at Arcesium as 3,250,000 INR.¹⁰ He was promoted to Senior Software Engineer in January 2025.²¹¹

At Arcesium, Sheth led a migration from a Java and MySQL stack to Kotlin and PostgreSQL, which the company estimated improved system performance by 20 to 30 percent.¹² He built a system for configuring and tracking Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations using Apache Spark and Argo pipelines, processing over 1.5 billion rows of financial data.¹² He also developed a data access and reporting tool with a frontend search panel and RESTful APIs, and engineered a pipeline automation solution using Amazon SQS that saved two minutes per build trigger.¹²

OpenAlmanac

In October 2025, Sheth co-founded The Almanac (now OpenAlmanac) with Rohan Sharma and Kushagra Chitkara while continuing to work at Arcesium.¹³ Sharma serves as CEO and Sheth as CTO.³¹ The platform launched on Product Hunt in December 2025 as an AI biography engine that crawls the public web, reconciles sources, and generates cited profiles.³ On its Product Hunt listing, co-founder Sharma described the platform's disambiguation engine as solving the problem of large language models confusing people who share the same name.³ The company stated the system could generate a new profile in under ten seconds.¹

The platform has since evolved into OpenAlmanac, a broader open knowledge base organized around community wikis.¹ Sheth contributes remotely from Hyderabad while the company operates from Cambridge, Massachusetts.¹

Competitive programming

On LeetCode, Sheth has solved over 660 problems primarily in C++, with a contest rating of 1,628, placing him in the top 20 percent of competitors globally.⁵¹ On Codeforces, he uses the handle "divitsheth," has solved 174 problems, and reached a peak contest rating of 1,167.⁶ His Codeforces profile lists his affiliation as BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.⁶

Other projects

In June 2024, Sheth listed a personal project called Fineprint, a Chrome extension with the tagline "Simplifying privacy."¹² In July 2021, he earned a Udemy certificate for "Mastering Data Structures and Algorithms."²

Online presence

Sheth joined X (formerly Twitter) under the handle @divitsheth007 in September 2017.¹ After an eight-year hiatus following his last post in February 2018, he resumed posting in February 2026.¹

References

1. Divit Paras Sheth — The Almanac(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
2. Divit Sheth — LinkedIn(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
3. The Almanac: Look up people and how they connect — Product Hunt(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
4. PS-I Chronicles 2021 (IT Domain) — BITS Pilani(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
5. divitsheth — LeetCode Profile(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
6. divitsheth — Codeforces Profile(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
7. Divit Sheth internship announcement — LinkedIn(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
8. BITS Pilani NAAC SSR Cycle 4 — Student Scholarship Records(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
9. D.E. Shaw Spin-Off Arcesium Brings Precision to Posttrade Analysis — Institutional Investor(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
10. BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus — Student Placement Records(accessed Apr 18, 2026)
11. Divit Sheth — Senior Software Engineer at Arcesium — The Org(accessed Apr 18, 2026)