[2] In 2011 he joined De Klerk & Van Gend, a firm of attorneys in Cape Town, where he served his articles of clerkship.
After his admission as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa, he remained at De Klerk & Van Gend as an associate, becoming head of the firm's wills and estates department.
[2] Gotsell left legal practice to join the management of the Democratic Alliance (DA).
[3] During the 2021 local elections the GOOD Party criticised him for sharing a faked video clip of GOOD candidate Peter de Villiers; the video was posted on Gotsell's Facebook page and reposted by DA chairperson Helen Zille.
[4] In the May 2024 general election, Gotsell stood as a parliamentary candidate, ranked 157th on the DA's national party list.