Oliver Stollmann

CTO / Co-Founder at APX

Berlin Metropolitan Area

About

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Actyx. We make factory software simple, allowing the world to become more productive and more resilient.

Experience

  • CTO & Co-Founder at APX
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

  • CEO & Co-Founder at Actyx
    Jul 2015 - Sep 2025 · 10 yrs 3 mos

    We have built a factory automation platform that changes the game for factories and developers automating them.

  • Research Fellow at Fraunhofer Application Center Industrial Automation (IOSB-INA)
    Jul 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr

    Working in the cognitive automation group: - developed a decentralized control system for industrial transportation systems (leveraging modern M2M communications and adaptive user-interfaces, the configuration time for industrial transportation systems was reduced by 1-2 orders of magnitude), - organized the planning, writing and submission of an EU grant proposal (4 countries, 11 members), - interfaced with industry partners to understand and contribute to the digital industry vision.

  • Visiting Researcher at PARC
    Mar 2013 - Oct 2013 · 8 mos

    • Developed a resource-contention-aware integrated manufacturing planner/scheduler as part of a DARPA project. • Applied heuristic search methods to solve a real-world job-shop problem.

  • Research Assistant (Institute of Machine Tools and Manufacturing) at ETH Zurich
    Feb 2012 - Mar 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Contributed to a research project evaluating the tractability of using Partially Observable Markov Decision Process for the optimization of Waste-to-Energy plants in the face of uncertain market demand. • Developed a hardware-in-the-loop controller evaluation framework. (part-time: 24%, 10 hrs/week)