After studying teaching and German language and literature, Alexander Butzlaff ended up in the IT industry via detours in marketing and sales. As a consultant for software asset management, he has supported public and private sector customers of all sizes in licensing software, designing processes and tooling issues. As a license manager in Bundesdruckerei's development division, he has been responsible for software licensing in the context of customer projects and products ranging from ID documents to cloud services since 2021. Since August 2022 he has been focusing strategically and operationally on the use and publication of OSS.