HandleTec Solutions

Founder

Vicknesh Suppramaniam

Founder, HandleTec Solutions

Solution architect and hands-on engineer with more than 20 years' experience designing and building secure, standards-based systems, from a secure publication and verification platform for the International Telecommunication Union to national IPv6 deployment guidance in Malaysia and the client systems HandleTec delivers today.

Professional history

  1. October 2023 – present

    HandleTec

    Founder

    HandleTec Solutions

    • Founded HandleTec to deliver software, automation, infrastructure and security engineering for client organisations.
    • Leads architecture and delivery across integration, automation, cloud migration and managed security.
    Read the network security and backup summary

  2. 2011 – 2023

    ITU consultancy

    Senior Consultant / Lead Solution Architect

    International Telecommunication Union

    • Principal responsibility for the architecture and software development of a secure digital publication and verification platform.
    • Led infrastructure, cybersecurity, integration and deployment, through to documented handover.
    Read the case study

  3. 2007 – 2011

    USM NAv6 engagement

    Senior IPv6 Consultant

    USM NAv6

    • Co-led KTAK-sponsored IPv6 deployment guidance for Malaysian public-sector bodies.
    • Advised around 15 to 20 ministries and agencies and co-developed training materials used by around 2,000 participants.
    Read the case study

  4. 2002 – 2007

    Early career

    Software and security engineer

    • Built and maintained a commercial digital-wills web platform and wrote licence-management components in C for a videoconferencing platform.
    • Worked on Linux, network-security and forensic engineering.

Technical specialisations

Solution architecture

  • End-to-end system design
  • Standards-based platforms
  • Integration architecture
  • Handover and operational documentation

Software engineering and integration

  • Go REST APIs
  • C
  • TypeScript clients
  • Standards-based components
  • n8n

Automation

  • n8n and code-based workflows
  • Human-approved automation
  • Data conversion and distribution
  • CI and automated testing

Cloud and infrastructure

  • AWS EC2, ELB and RDS
  • Docker
  • Proxmox
  • Linux
  • OpenTofu
  • Ansible

Cybersecurity and assurance

  • PKI and digital signatures
  • JWS, JWT and JWK
  • Mutual TLS
  • Firewalls, VPN and segmentation
  • Security assessments, including for Malaysian ISPs
  • Security incident response support
  • Security and conformance testing

Standards and interoperability

  • Persistent identifiers
  • IPv6

Credentials

  • BSc Computer Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia
  • HRD Corp Accredited Trainer, valid through November 2028

Selected achievements

Open source

Vicknesh maintains public Go libraries for signing, key derivation, tokens, identifiers and configuration, published on GitHub.

github.com/svicknesh github.com/handletec Library list

Work with Vicknesh

Discuss a project, partnership or senior technical role

Use the contact form, or email info@handletec.my.

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