Dr. Rachel Beda, MD is an Internal Medicine Physician in Seattle, WA and has over 19 years of experience in the medical field, including 7 years as a supervising physician in the Level 1 Emergency Department at Harvborview Medical Center. She has extensive experience with medical education, including teaching and evaluating paramedic students, medical students, and residents for over a decade. Dr. Beda currently is co-owner of Wise Patient Internal Medicine, a small independent Direct Primary Care clinic, seeking to disrupt the typical fee-for-service institutional brand of primary care. A large portion of her current practice is dedicated to providing gender-affirming care for trans and gender-non-conforming folks. While not a computer scientist herself, Dr. Beda has been hearing about Kubernetes for some time from her spouse, Joe.