Aberdein began karting primarily in South Africa before moving to single-seaters. His first single-seater championship was the 2017 ADAC Formula 4 Championship, driving for Motopark. The year before, he won the 2016–17 Formula 4 UAE Championship title with 14 wins out of 18 races. However, he finished only ninth overall in the 2017 ADAC Formula 4 Championship.
Aberdein graduated to European Formula 3 for 2018, remaining with Motopark for a third year following an extensive testing programme with the team. He took three podiums across the season.
Aberdein's first experience in DTM was in 2017, when he took part in a rookie test for Audi at the Lausitzring. He took part in another test in December 2018 for Audi's customer teams at Jerez.
Aberdein was announced to be competing in the 2019 season with Audi Sport Team WRT. He finished the season in 10th overall with 67 points and a best race result of fourth at Assen and the Nürburgring.
For the 2020 season, Aberdein was originally set to serve as Audi's reserve driver in DTM and Formula E, a deal which likely would have included just one race appearance in place of Robin Frijns at the Norisring. Instead, he moved to BMW Team RMR for a sophomore DTM campaign. He was unable to improve on his results from the previous year, again taking a best race result of fourth at Zolder, and finished 11th in the standings.
In 2021, Aberdein moved to the LMP2 class of the European Le Mans Series, competing alongside Tom Gamble and Philip Hanson at United Autosports. With four podiums, including a win at the season-ending race in Portugal, the trio finished second in the standings. He also joined United Autosports for the 24 Hours of Le Mans together with Nico Jamin and Manuel Maldonado, though the race concluded in a retirement due to a crash with the sister United car caused by Maldonado.
In 2022, Aberdein teamed up with Ed Jones and Oliver Rasmussen to drive for Jota Sport in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Following a fifth place at Sebring, the team was forced to retire at Spa-Francorchamps. The team bounced back at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing third in class and joining the sister car, which took victory, on the podium. Aberdein, Jones and Rasmussen took another third place at the penultimate race in Fuji, eventually ending sixth in the teams' standings.
Aberdein made a brief return to GT racing in 2022 alongside his endurance campaign, competing in the first two rounds of the ADAC GT Masters. With three podiums in the first three races he finished 20th in the overall standings. He also competed in the opening round of the 2022 Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie with Team Sorg Rennsport, finishing eighth in the VT2 FWD class.
For 2023, Aberdein returned to the European Le Mans Series, competing in the LMP2 class for Inter Europol Competition alongside Olli Caldwell and Rui Andrade in the team's No. 43 entry. With one podium at Paul Ricard but three retirements out of six races, the team finished seventh in the standings.
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