Africa's largest EV manufacturer scaling data infrastructure for battery-swap logistics
SPIRO manufactures and assembles electric motorcycles and bikes across Africa, with a core operational dependency on swappable-battery logistics and charging networks. The tech stack is data-heavy (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, SQL, Python, Spark, Airflow, Kafka) and heavily cloud-native (AWS, Azure, GCP), suggesting the company is building next-generation data infrastructure to track fleet operations, battery cycles, and charging utilization across distributed geography. Active hiring in data engineering and core engineering roles, concentrated at senior levels, reflects the scaling phase of both manufacturing sites and the analytics backbone needed to operationalize a battery-swap network at scale.
SPIRO is a Nairobi-based EV manufacturer founded in 2014, operating as the largest electric motorcycle and bike producer in Africa. The company manufactures and assembles vehicles and swappable batteries, supported by an in-house charging infrastructure network. The business model centers on battery-as-a-service logistics: customers swap depleted batteries at SPIRO stations rather than charge at home. SPIRO is currently commissioning new manufacturing and assembly facilities across Africa. The company serves mid-market and emerging-market transportation segments, with operational focus on supply-chain efficiency, fleet telemetry, and energy-grid integration in regions with unstable power access.
SPIRO uses Power BI, Tableau, and Looker for analytics; SQL, Python, R, and Scala for data processing; Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive for distributed computing; AWS, Azure, and GCP for cloud infrastructure; Airflow and Prefect for data orchestration; Kafka and RabbitMQ for event streaming; and Spring Boot, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis for application services.
SPIRO is building end-to-end analytics and measurement frameworks for marketing ROI; next-generation data infrastructure including data lakes and warehouses; data engineering roadmaps; dashboards for KPI tracking; and renewable energy integration systems for charging networks.
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