Brooke Hopkins
Founder at Coval (YC S24)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrooke Hopkins is a founder and engineer with 11 years of experience building simulation and evaluation platforms for intelligent agents, now leading Coval (YC S24) to benchmark voice and chat assistants. Previously she led evaluation infrastructure at Waymo, shipping the tech stack that scaled self-driving car validation from prototype to production. Her background includes system engineering at Google across Cloud and Google Assistant, giving her deep experience in large-scale, real-world AI systems. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she blends startup agility with enterprise-grade reliability and a strong grounding in math and CS from NYU Abu Dhabi. Notably, she brings cross-domain simulation experience—from autonomous vehicles to conversational agents—enabling novel evaluation strategies that surface failure modes early.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science Mathematics at New York University Abu Dhabi
Slovak, French, English
Github Skills (6)
voice10
voice-assistant9
ai6
hammock4
javascript1
developer-tools1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bnhopkins/RefugeesOnRails
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:56 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
bnhopkins/Unix-Lab-Site
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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