Alexander Neundorf studied Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany until 2002. Since then he has been working at Jenoptik LOS GmbH, developing high end digital cameras.

Since 1998 he is working on various parts of the KDE project, since February 2006 he is the maintainer of the buildsystem for KDE 4. He also contributed to other free software projects, like the eCos RTOS, the Microwindows windowing system, the Linux firewire driver, the buildsystem CMake, and the Microwindows windowing system.