Case Study: Continental accelerates automotive software development with GitHub

Continental - Customer Case Study

Continental, the global automotive supplier, needed to modernize its software development as vehicles became increasingly software-defined and its teams faced growing complexity, silos, and slow release cycles. The company turned to GitHub to support agile collaboration, code sharing, and innersource across distributed teams, while also improving integration with its broader DevOps toolchain.

With GitHub, Continental built a stable, automated development workflow that connected tools like Jira, Jenkins, Grafana, and others for pull-request verification, traceability, and secure software delivery. The results were significant: releases increased from two to three times per week to two to three times per day, and onboarding new developers dropped from two weeks of manual work to just 10 minutes.

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Timm Drevensek

Software Architect