Kayla Cinnamon

Her 2020 RunAsRadio guest biography records an MS in Information Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, concentrating in Human-Computer Interaction. The conversation discusses Windows Terminal’s separate application model: preserving the behavior existing command-line software depends on while improving the interface around it. That is a product-design context, not a claim that she wrote the terminal implementation alone.[5]

Cinnamon managed Windows Terminal and Cascadia Code before moving into broader Windows developer experiences and developer advocacy. In an October 2022 message to the Terminal community, she explicitly stepped down as its product manager while remaining at Microsoft. Her current GitHub profile names the advocacy role and marks the earlier product-management work as former.[1][4]

Parallel sessions with separate working trees

Her September 2026 Copilot guide explains how independent agent sessions can each use a Git worktree, a separate checkout sharing the repository’s history. It walks through several tasks and their session cards so a developer can follow and review results separately. The tutorial’s contribution is operational guidance about isolation and context, rather than a guarantee that concurrent changes never conflict when integrated.[2]

Keeping the conversation when moving to an editor

Her October 2026 guide shows opening an existing Copilot app session in VS Code with its worktree, conversation and changes intact. It then walks through diff review, manual edits, local testing and pushing the updated branch. This connects automated work to the developer’s existing review tools without reconstructing the session from a fresh chat.[3]