I'm currently working at Google[x] - specifically on Project Wing's UI and cloud services.
Until Willow Garage was acquired, I was working there as a Web Robotics Engineer. Really, it's just a title I gave myself for a full-stack engineer who deals with the issues of real-time, distributed robot control.
Before Google and Willow Garage, I was:
I'm on GitHub, of course. My most popular projects have been an XML-RPC server and client for Node.js, a (now deprecated) Robot Operating System client library in Node.js, and various Python and Objective-C libraries.
Along with some great folks at WPI, Brown University, Bosch, and Yujin Robots, we started the Robot Web Tools organization. The goal of Robot Web Tools is to provide a suite of tools for putting ROS-enabled robots on the web.
Well GitHub is my social network of choice :). But I'm also on Twitter as @bacealexander, where you'll get amazing insights into robots, web, and mostly that.
Tweets and email are the best way to contact me. My email address is baalexander at gmail.