Digital · IoT · AI in manufacturing
Hi, I'm Oleksandr Savliev.
I'm an engineer working on digital, IoT and AI in manufacturing. Today I head Digital & Automation at Nestlé Coffee. Before that I built an IoT platform at Syntegon and spent close to a decade at Tetra Pak.
Get in touchAbout
I trained as a mechanical engineer and have spent my career bringing new technology into factories. I started at Audi and BMW, then moved to Tetra Pak, Syntegon, and now Nestlé. The part I enjoy most is what comes after the demo: getting things to actually work, day after day.
Right now I lead Digital & Automation for Nestlé Coffee, and on the side I'm finishing an MAS in AI & Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. I also lecture on digitisation in industry at a university in Madrid.
Experience
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2025 – Present
Head of Digital & Automation, Nestlé Coffee
Nestlé · Switzerland
AI, digital and automation across global R&D and manufacturing. Building a roadmap of digital solutions for the coffee category and scaling it globally.
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2022 – 2024
Director, Digital Acceleration
Syntegon · Switzerland
Built Synexio, an IoT platform for real-time operations data. Took it from an early idea to a commercial product.
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2020 – 2022
Remote Support Innovation Project Manager
Tetra Pak · Munich
Built and deployed an AI-powered remote support solution for connected field and factory teams, raising customer service levels by 50%.
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2017 – 2020
Open Innovation Project Manager
Tetra Pak · Munich & Lund
Ran Tetra Pak's Innovation Programme: 30+ startup projects with a 50% success rate. Organised the 2018 and 2019 Hackathons.
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2013 – 2017
Operational Excellence Manager
Tetra Pak · Munich
Led automation and operational excellence initiatives across multiple sites, achieving performance improvements of up to 50% through Lean Manufacturing and TPM.
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2011 – 2013
Engineer
BMW & Audi · Germany
Where I started out: vehicle-communication systems and 48 V powertrains in automotive.
Education
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2024 – 2026
MAS in AI & Digital Technology
ETH Zurich
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2016
Wings of Excellence Award
St. Gallen Symposium
Essay selected from over 1,000 international submissions.
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2015 – 2016
Executive MBA, Innovation & Business Creation (summa cum laude)
TU Munich
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2009 – 2011
M.Sc. Transportation Systems (magna cum laude)
TU Munich
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2005 – 2009
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (summa cum laude)
National Transport University
What I've built
- Cloud-based IoT platform for data analytics (Syntegon): gives manufacturers a real-time view of how their lines are actually running. I took it from a whiteboard idea to a commercial product. The build was the easier part. Getting manufacturers to trust a new data layer in their operations took longer.
- AI remote support at Tetra Pak: an AI tool that helps field and factory teams diagnose and fix problems without waiting for an expert on-site. Raised customer service levels by 50%. The hardest part was making it useful enough that engineers would actually change how they work.
- Tetra Pak's Innovation Programme: a structured programme matching Tetra Pak with external startups. 30+ projects, 50% success rate, high for open innovation. Also ran the 2018 and 2019 Hackathons.
How I see it
Make the best out of wherever, and whoever, you are. I've spent my career doing exactly that with technology: meeting people where they actually are, and building what genuinely helps them. Not the most impressive tool, but the one that gets used.
Get in touch
Most AI projects in industry stall after the pilot. If that's where you are, or if you're thinking about IoT, digital transformation, or what it actually takes to get things working in a factory, happy to talk.