When she was 10, she was already tutoring younger kids in maths – in between trying to sell coconuts on her local beach in Itaituba, Brazil. She’s interned in a bank, taught at a university, and came to Australia on holiday with just one bag, never intending to stay.

We sat down with Mipac Control Systems Engineer Nagila Ribeiro to talk about her career journey to date, including why she chose to study engineering, how she’s dealt with gender discrimination along the way and why she turned down a job offer with a major Australian mining company to join the Mipac team earlier this year.