Django in Space with Loes Crama

Loes Crama is a software engineer contributing to ESA's NewAthena mission at cosine measurement systems in Sassenheim, The Netherlands. We discuss her lifelong interest in space and her day-to-day work combining software engineering with data engineering and data science.

🔗 Links

• Loes on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loes-crama/
• cosine: https://www.cosine.eu/
• Djangocon EU: How Django is helping to build the biggest X-ray observatory to date - Loes Crama: https://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2026/04/17/6-x-ray.html

📦 Projects

• Marimo: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo
• django-ses: https://github.com/django-ses/django-ses
• django-anymail: https://github.com/anymail/django-anymail

📚 Books

• [Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil: https://bookshop.org/p/books/weapons-of-math-destruction-how-big-data-increases-inequality-and-threatens-democracy-cathy-o-neil/ffc2bb128e435cfd
• Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong: https://bookshop.org/p/books/slouching-towards-utopia-an-economic-history-of-the-twentieth-century-professor-j-bradford-delong/4a2605f45018fb16?ean=9781541604247

🎥 YouTube

• YouTube Channel: @djangochat: https://www.youtube.com/@djangochat