Demian Hess

Demian is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect for Media & Entertainment at Amazon Web Services, where he helps technology companies develop innovative publishing solutions for content production, data analysis, and monetization.

Before joining AWS, Demian worked for more than 15 years as a content manager, developer, technical consultant, and systems architect for major publishers and organizations such as Elsevier, Sage Publishing, and PubMed at the National Institutes of Health. His areas of expertise include content management and distribution, digital asset management, semantic web technologies, and metadata extraction and management.

A regular contributor to the AWS Media & Entertainment blog, Demian’s writing has appeared in CMSWire, the Henry Stewart Journal of Digital Media Management, and the Media & Entertainment Journal. Demian holds a BA from Brown University, an MA from Oregon State University, and an MS from Drexel University. He currently lives in Arlington, VA and spends far too much time riding bikes and training for duathlons.