Brian Lalor
Global Regulatory Affairs Manager
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolBrian Lalor is a Dublin-based Irish-registered pharmacist and regulatory affairs leader with 21 years’ experience managing medicinal product lifecycles, labelling development, and global regulatory submissions. Currently Global Regulatory Affairs Manager at Kora Healthcare, he has progressed through senior regulatory roles at IQVIA and Besins, combining hands-on dossier preparation with people leadership and regulatory systems implementation. His background in pharmacy and an MSc in Toxicology give him both clinical grounding and scientific rigour when navigating complex regulatory environments. Beyond regulatory work he still practices as a locum pharmacist, keeping him grounded in frontline patient care and practical pharmacy operations. An engaged contributor to open-source ops and back-end projects, he has improved reliability in tooling like puppet-logstash and enhanced stream processing in riemann, reflecting an attention to robustness and maintainability. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and unusually comfortable translating between clinical teams, regulators, and engineering stakeholders.
21 years of coding experience
Bsc. (Pharm), Pharmacy, Bsc. (Pharm), Pharmacy at Trinity College, DublinMSc., Toxicology, MSc., Toxicology at University of Surrey
English, French, Irish
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Github Skills (26)
monitoring10
puppeteer10
clojure-cli10
puppet-bolt10
event-sourcing10
clojure10
stream10
event-emitter10
eventsource10
eventing10
devops10
testing9
configuration-management9
logging9
automations8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
riemann/riemann
Jun 2014 - Jul 2016
A network event stream processing system, in Clojure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on enhancing the `riemann/riemann` project's core stream processing capabilities. They extended existing functionalities, like the `changed` stream, to include previous value preservation and exception handling. Refactoring efforts aimed to avoid modifying events, optimizing event handling within streams. Furthermore, the user made contributions related to Logstash integration.
clojureevent-streamriemanneventsmonitoring
voxpupuli/puppet-logstash
May 2013 - May 2013
Puppet module to manage Logstash
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the Puppet module's infrastructure and maintainability. They ensured the log directory existed before the service started, preventing silent failures. They implemented containment, preventing package installation issues. Additionally, they addressed whitespace errors and made code consistency changes.
logstashpuppetcentos-puppet-moduledebian-puppet-modulelinux-puppet-module
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