I Lost My Cloud Resume to a Corrupted File — Here’s the GitHub Lesson I Needed

I’ll be direct about what happened.

While building my Cloud Resume on AWS, I lost several hours of work to a corrupted local file. My HTML was structured. My CSS was clean. My GitHub repository was completely empty — because I hadn’t prioritized pushing to it.

I’m writing this not as a cautionary tale, but as a practical argument for something I now consider non-negotiable: version control as a discipline, not an afterthought.