It's the kind of thing that you can only get away with if you're very, very good. At that point it becomes a kind of power move, like showing up to a high end interview in jeans and a t-shirt.
Yea, that resume takes a certain amount of chutzpah, doesn't it? Kind of a clever idea for a cover letter, though, with a "standard" resume attached.
Or if you pretend that you are very good. If you show up to an interview in jeans and a t-shirt, people will think you are very good.
True, it can also be a form of peacocking. But in an industry where results are easily tested it's much harder to get away with that.
In this case, the guy has been spearheading a very high performance, innovative methodology for real-time object detection. Companies interested in that task should be falling over themselves to hire him.