When Trystan Paderno comes to work each day, he passes the precise spot where his life
changed – suddenly and quite serendipitously – one morning in September 2025.
Trystan was on his way to drop off a CV with a local design house, when Maps directed him down Stanley Street. “I had a spare CV in my bag and, when I saw the Savic sign,I thought ‘it would be wrong not to just drop it in there’,” he says. He wound up chatting with Nicole Fisher,and was about to leave when a familiar voice called out “Trystan?” It was assembly tech Zac Markovic, who’d worked with Trystan at the caravan systems manufacturer, OzX Corp. Zac took Trystan for a tour of our showroom, where the pair bumped into CEO Marc Alexander. The rest, as they say, is history.
Trystan is a mechanical engineer and an industrial designer: roles that encompass distinct but conjoined disciplines. “Bridging the gap between how stuff works and how it looks enables me to flex different sides of my brain,” he laughs. In a few short months of landing at Savic, he’s been. involved in ‘design tweaks’ of the C-Series, a variety of custom accessories, and several aftermarket parts. He’s also working on the design of the next Savic bike – although that’s something he’s keeping to himself.
Like most Savicians, Trystan has always lived with motorbikes. Growing up near Daylesford, he was on his first ‘peewee’ at three, and “consigned to a life on two wheels ever since”. Today, he has several bikes in his garage – “although most are being fixed, tinkered with or modified, rather than functioning”. So presumably the gig at Savic – with its wide range of roles, design aspirations, and motorcycle tragics – is right up his street?
“I think I want to be with this company forever,” says Trystan. “As long as I’m in a room with people who are smarter than me, who I can constantly learn from, that’s my dream job,” he says, sounding schmaltzy but meaning every word. “There are lots of engineering jobs out there, but being in the automotive industry has always been my dream. This is the type of job my mates and I said we would try and land after uni – and I can’t believe I’ve found it so soon!”
