Tech Heroes podcast host Aliza Carpio sits down with Peter Thomas, Distinguished Engineer at Intuit, Hands-on Java EE & JS / Web-UI Architect, and creator of the Karate test-automation framework. His project JTrac has been volunteer translated into 20 languages and his first open-source project CB2XML (2004) is still being actively maintained. He was a guest speaker at Selenium Conference Tokyo 2019 and Technical Editor of the best-selling book Wicket in Action [Manning 2008]. They discuss the importance of contribution to open source in building technologists’ craft and his advice to start small, test automation and their joint passion for tech evangelism.