Combine that with a Coursera (or some other) program and you have a new leg in your career (or hobby) including an endorsement and industry reference for a real project on your CV. Old (slightly bored) but super experienced geeks who love Open Source and Security are especially welcome to reach out. Expectations are low since most of us on the team have also not done any ML that goes beyond reading some papers :-)
my contact details are in my user profile (always happy to meet real people from here :))