Hirofumi Kasagi is a CFX (Character Effects) Supervisor with 14 years of VFX industry experience, blending art, mathematics and software engineering to deliver character- and crowd-focused effects for feature films, TV and games. He holds dual degrees—a Computer Science and Engineering bachelor from University of Aizu and a Magna Cum Laude Animation & VFX degree from Academy of Art University—which enables him to solve creative problems with rigorous technical tooling and pipelines. His credits include high-profile productions such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Game of Thrones, Top Gun: Maverick and Men in Black: International, and he has taken on roles spanning artist, TD and supervisor. Beyond on-set artistry, he contributes code to production systems and open-source projects (notably backend work on the long-running Pandora FMS monitoring app), demonstrating fluency in Perl, PHP and pipeline development. Bilingual in Japanese and English, he enjoys cross-cultural collaboration and building tools that make complex VFX workflows more efficient.
14 years of coding experience
2nd Bachelor, Animation & VFX, Magna Cum Laude, 2nd Bachelor, Animation & VFX, Magna Cum Laude at Academy of Art University
Bachelor, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Aizu
Diploma, Science and Mathematics, Diploma, Science and Mathematics at Ohmachi High School
Pandora FMS is an open source monitoring application whose origin dates back to 2004. It integrates in the same application the monitoring of different infrastructure elements: networks, applications, servers, web, and other specific data sources such as logs, WMI, Netflow or SNMP traps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:353 commits, 5 PRs, 52 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Hirofumi primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Pandora FMS monitoring application. Their work included fixing argument mismatches and comment clarifications within the `pandora_manage.pl` utility and core Perl modules. Additionally, the user implemented and expanded API functions for alert templates, and added new features to the API. The user's commits show expertise in Perl and PHP, core components for this monitoring system.
Pandora FMS is a flexible and highly scalable monitoring system ready for big environments. It uses agents (Linux, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and BSD systems) and can do both local and remote network monitoring (SNMP v3, TCP checks, WMI, etc).
Contributions:7 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
wmihp-uxmonitoringsnmpnetwork-monitoring
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