Alexander Wachtel is working as a Managing Director for the ESCde GmbH. As a Microsoft Gold Partner in several competencies, the ESCde offers professional IT support, consulting and training for Microsoft products. Supported technologies include Microsoft operating systems as well as Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Microsoft System Center Suite, and Office. Due to his many years of experience, he has been honored as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2013 till today.

After graduating in computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2012, he also works on his Ph.D. thesis in the field of programming in natural language at the chair of Prof. Dr. Walter F. Tichy. During this time, he has published several technical research articles in the area of Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Programming, AI & Cognitive Services.

Since 2012, Wachtel has increasingly been integrating Microsoft technologies into his courses, teaching Azure, Bot Framework and Azure Machine Learning. For this reason, due to his teaching activities at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), he was awarded from 2016 to 2019 as a Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) expert.