As part of the RichFaces project, Ilya gathered new component requirements, built new custom components, and developed RichFaces demo applications. He also helped customers and users with questions and acted as a community liaison. In addition, Ilya has led a number of large enterprise development projects that used RichFaces, solving many performance and scalability problems along the way. He also led the Exadel Fiji project, a rich JSF library for wrapping Flash and JavaFX