Due to my only rather basic grasp of French, I had to select that and press Translate. It tells me débrouillard means "vindingrijk," which is usually translated into English as "resourceful" but I don't think that's a particularly close translation. So yes, I guess débrouillard is a good word for it  OTOH, I don't see anything particularly noteworthy about what I did here, because this is just what I do when presented with problems