Preda started competitive diving when he was 7 years old, attended Coventry University in England for college, where he majored in journalism and media, and served as a judge on the reality television show Splash!

[3] At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships, held later in July in Gwangju, South Korea, he competed in the 27-metre high dive, scoring a total of 234.40 points to place fourteenth overall.

[7][8] At the stop of the 2022 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series held in June in Paris, France, Preda won the gold medal with a score of 470.50 points.

[9] His score ranked as the highest ever achieved at a single Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series stop, setting a new record.

[20] On 11 September, at the World Series stop in Sisikon, Switzerland, he placed fourth and retained his overall first-rank.