Tony Merlino

Chief Revenue Officer

Checkly

Feb 2026 - Current (8 months)

Leading the global revenue organization for the pioneer of Monitoring as Code (MaC). We help engineering-heavy organizations like 1Password, Vercel, and LinkedIn shift from reactive "firefighting" to proactive, developer-led reliability.

Evangelizing Monitoring as Code (MaC): Empowering Platform and SRE teams to treat monitoring as a first-class citizen—codified in TypeScript/JavaScript, version-controlled, and integrated directly into the CI/CD pipeline.

Driving Developer Velocity: Helping teams reduce "Mean Time to Detection" (MTTD) to under 1 minute by using Playwright-powered synthetics that catch critical failures before they impact customers.

Partnering with technical leaders to eliminate false positiv

Vice President of Sales

Checkly

Jul 2025 - Feb 2026 (8 months)

Vice President & General Manager, North America

Applause

Jan 2022 - Jul 2025 (3 years 7 months)

Applause is the world leader in crowdsourced digital quality and testing. By leveraging a global community of over 1.7 million digital experts, Applause provides world-class brands with real-world feedback and testing capabilities at unparalleled scale. Unlike traditional lab-based or offshore models, Applause delivers the speed and authentic end-user insights required to launch flawless digital experiences across mobile, web, IoT, and in-store environments.

Vice President of Enterprise Sales & Business Development

Applause

Jan 2018 - Dec 2021 (4 years)

Senior Director of Commercial Sales

Applause

May 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 8 months)

VP Sales

Nexaweb

Nov 2014 - Apr 2016 (1 year 6 months)

Nexaweb offers a next generation mobile application development platform that helps companies build world class mobile, web and desktop enterprise applications. Our software provides the ability to "code once, deploy everywhere" that enables IT organizations to rapidly develop HTML5, hybrid, and native applications. In addition to the ability to develop with a single code-base for multiple platforms, our drag and drop offering substantially improves developer productivity via our layout manager, which lets designers design multiple layouts, at the same time, for multiple devices or orientations, all the while looking at exactly how the UI would look on a real device. Nexaweb also offers customized services options to meet the varying needs

VP Sales

Datadog

Aug 2013 - Oct 2014 (1 year 3 months)

Datadog is a unified data platform for dev and ops teams and offers a brand new way to manage applications and infrastructure in the cloud age.

Our unique combination of data aggregation, visualization, and social interaction connects teams to all the tools and service providers they need to build and run reliable systems.

Director of Inside Sales

Applause

Sep 2011 - Aug 2013 (2 years)

Applause is the leader for In-The-Wild software testing services, assembling an on-demand, global community of 200,000+ testers in over 190 countries who provide a full range of testing services (functional, usability, localization, security, load) across all platforms, devices, carriers and consoles, testing under real world conditions for businesses ranging from pre-seed funding to some of the largest companies across the world.

Some awards during my tenure include:
- "#2 IT Services and #16 fastest growing company in America for 2012" - Inc. Magazine
- "#326 fastest growing company in America for 2013" - Inc Magazine
- "#8 of America's Most Promising Companies" - Forbes
- "World Summit on Innovation & Entre

Regional Sales Manager, Informatica Cloud Services

Informatica

Oct 2009 - Sep 2011 (2 years)

Informatica Corp. is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. The Informatica Platform provides corporations with a comprehensive, unified, open and economical approach to lower IT costs and gain competitive advantage from their information assets.

Manager, Inside Sales

Bullhorn

May 2008 - Sep 2009 (1 year 5 months)

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Director of Sales, North America

SensAble Technologies Inc

Aug 2007 - Apr 2008 (9 months)

National Account Executive

CareerBuildercom

Apr 2005 - Jul 2007 (2 years 4 months)

Classified Advertising Manager

Community Newspaper Company

Dec 2003 - Apr 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Account Executive

Community Newspaper Company

Jul 2001 - Dec 2003 (2 years 6 months)

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