I wrote SVG-SMIL export for Animatron (www.animatron.com) in 2015 that aimed to get near the level of Adobe Flash in plain browser, however it was extremely difficult due to broken SVG-SMIL implementations in all major browsers. You can see some examples here:
The issue back then was that Google suddenly announced their intent to deprecate and remove SVG-SMIL from Chrome, instantly freezing all development there. However YouTube complained and made them change their minds; later they put it into a "frozen" mode but didn't remove it.
For most artists it would have been a risky bet to use it if Google didn't want to support it any further, despite the promise of having an official standard for animation in all browsers.
I have some time on hands I can spend on Machine/Deep Learning in computer vision, NLP and fraud detection (spot instances and series). I am both in bleeding-edge academia as well as in industry productionalizing state-of-art models (i.e. replicating proven papers that are 3-6 months old and putting them into production on problems that largely reduce to their assumptions). Recently turned a DenseNet and Wide ResNet multicategorical image detection into an SaaS serverless product, prototyped a Spark-based "classical" ML fraud detector ensemble matching performance of a hand-crafted one (Gradient-boosted Decision Trees, Random Forests, SVM etc.), identifying suspicious features using PCA/t-SNE/clustering and preparing another detector based on spot fraud detector (VAE) and time series fraud detector (VRNN/WBW), e.g. bot traffic. Automating customer service using sentiment analysis and mail classification/response generation. Self-driving cars, Deep Reinforcement Learning for robotics and program synthesis for research fun too.
Purely project based, i.e. you specify what you need and I work on a solution with agreed checkpoints (renumeration possible based on days or progress level).
While based in EU, there is no problem to spawn a company in Delaware to service US-based clients if needed.
If you are interested, shoot me a mail to peter.skvarenina at protonmail.com
I am offering remote freelancing in the area of the very latest distributed Deep Learning and/or DApps. I have experience programming state-of-art 2018 Deep Learning computer vision classification models (DenseNet(-BC), Wide ResNet etc.), reproducing world-class results, running distributed training and hyperparameter optimization (AWS Sage Maker, tf.Estimator), productionalizing Deep Learning microservices (AWS Lambda - Chalice/Serverless, GCF, minikube/kubeless/K8s etc.). Worked on e-commerce DApp prototype in Solidity (no ICO offers please).
World's top-10 US-based college education in Machine Learning/Robotics; nanodegrees from Udacity in Self-driving car, robotics, AI and Deep Learning. Worked for some of the world's best engineering companies already.
Working either on an EU-based contract or spawning a Delaware-based corp for US clients.
I am not cheap and I am good; no-nonsense straight-to-the-point approach, hands-on with low-level details, self-driven, no tech guidance needed, fully accommodating business needs; expecting reliability back.
Willing to relocate: No (for the next 6-12 months)
I am a developer working in 60+ languages (Java, C++, Python, Scala, Go etc.) with a huge range of skills such as Deep/Machine Learning, Cryptology, Computer Graphics (3D/2D/geometry), Robotics, Computer Vision, NLP, Speech Recognition, Compilers, Big Data, e-commerce, Android, currently learning AR/VR/iOS and e-commerce DApps.
World-class education (top 10 engineering school) as well as working experience.
I've programmed an own SQL-interpreter, vector animation software (www.animatron.com), Google Earth-alike viewer for 3D cities, 3D engine for railroad simulation, fully automated e-commerce SaaS, online multi-language dictionary, car racing timing software; worked on distributed enterprise messaging with high availability and transactions, machine learning system for health informatics and many more.
One of the first graduates of Udacity's Self-driving car, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning Foundations and Robotics nanodegrees.
I am looking for smaller high-energy companies for permanent or contractor hands-on positions (love to create new things together with motivated and non-complicated people).
See my CV with contact details at http://bit.ly/2nA1XpD and get in touch if you are interested!
For US-based positions/contracts I can make a personal US-based LLC used to handle all administrative tasks.
Shameless plugin: Here is a recent presentation I did while finishing Udacity's Self-driving Car Nanodegree. It might help with some of the concepts, show you what was Udacity teaching and complement the material from MIT:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14DKPte-1YvU5IV3Rb8zd...
The issue back then was that Google suddenly announced their intent to deprecate and remove SVG-SMIL from Chrome, instantly freezing all development there. However YouTube complained and made them change their minds; later they put it into a "frozen" mode but didn't remove it.
For most artists it would have been a risky bet to use it if Google didn't want to support it any further, despite the promise of having an official standard for animation in all browsers.